The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Thursday 4th February, 2016
From 7:30pm
$10/$5 on the door
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The Auricle is proud to announce an exciting international double bill, featuring Norway’s Beam Splitter & Australia’s Anthony Pateras!
The event will follow on from the opening of Anthony Pateras and Chris Abrahams exhibition 176, which will be showing at the Auricle over February.
The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Saturday 30th January, 2016
From 8pm
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Kelsely Abaza is an Egyptian composer and producer of avant-garde electronic music working in New Zealand. Abaza will be performing ‘Experimental 2016’ (working title) – a selection of unreleased compositions.
In addition, ‘Mood Up the Mode’ – a standalone single by Kelsely Abaza – has been released for download on 12 December 2015. On 2 January 2016 Abaza released ‘Amira’, a more accessible tune of laid-back electronica dedicated to his sister. You may hear them at the Bandcamp link provided below.
The concert will be opened by Christchurch musician Michael Summerfield who will perform works specifically written for the occasion.
http://www.kelselyabaza.com/
Download or stream singles:
https://kelselyabaza.bandcamp.com/track/mood-up-the-mode-2
https://kelselyabaza.bandcamp.com/track/amira
The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Saturday 23rd January, 2016
From 7:30pm
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Come witness the DJ Combover Auricle Takeover!
The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Friday 18th December, 2015
From 7:00pm
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Did you miss DJ ID last Friday? And has your life felt hollow and empty since? Well don’t despair because this Friday the Auricle is pleased to host DJ ID the Second Coming!
The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Saturday 19th December, 2015
From 7:00pm
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Come and celebrate the end of an amazing year at The Auricle away from the cacophony of carolling and Christmas muzak. The festivities will include live acts, DJs and a Sonic Secret Santa!
The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Wednesday 9th December, 2015
7:00pm
$50 a seat
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With the party season soon upon us, join The Auricle’s resident oenesthestic expert, Jo Burzynska for a tutored tasting of some of the most exciting sparkling wines available in the country today: from great local examples to European classics, such as Champagne with likely something new for everyone. She’ll also be exploring what music is best with bubbles and whether the right sounds can add more fizz to your experience.
Jo Burzynska is one of the country’s most widely read wine critics, writing a weekly wine column in the New Zealand Herald’s Viva magazine and is the author of Wine Class: All You Need to Know About Wine in New Zealand (Random House). She is also an active sound artist, recording and performing under the name Stanier Black-Five, whose work in recent years has increasingly combined her interests in music and wine in a series of multisensory performances and installations and wine and music matching workshops.
It’s not just Jo that’s been researching this area – Krug is now on the case! http://www.lepanmedia.com/the-art-of-pairing-champagne-and-music/
Tickets are $50 per person. Places are limited and booking essential via {This email is obscured. Your must have javascript enabled to see it}
Image: Krug Music published in Four Magazine
The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2015
Seminar at 6pm with performance from 7:00pm
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Join us this fine mid week for an experimental performance exploring subtle FM synthesis tones mediated through the transductive powers of crystals. Ken Mitchell is a Sydney, Australia based sound artist using a Crystal ResoSynth via Max/MSP and crystal transducers. The artist will also give a short seminar from 6pm for all those interested in creative coding using a crystal radio interface!
Crystal ResoSynth Performance, Auricle Gallery, Christchurch from kenneth mitchell
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Showing: 3rd – 31st December, 2015
Opening: Thursday 3rd December, 6-8pm
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Fate Of Things To Come (a conference of stones) 2013
Three channel synchronised video and sound installation. Duration 9’48”
No ordinary stones these, and what better community to discuss the fate of things to come – a collection of song/stone voices from diverse geophysical sources.
A stand-alone work symbolizing harmony and solidarity, Fate of Things to Come was originally devised as a contribution to Lines in the Ocean, an exhibition in support of the establishment of a fully protected ocean sanctuary around the Kermadecs, a unique region of mostly underwater volcanoes located north of Aotearoa/New Zealand between White Island and Tonga. Five years of negotiation have finally succeeded with NZ Government announcing approval this year of the Kermadec Sanctuary proposal.
Full ratification will occur in April 2016)
Credits:
Camera by Bruce Foster
Sound recorded by John Kim
Devised, performed, edited by Phil Dadson 2013/14
Produced with the support of:
Pew Charitable Trust
CNZ Arts Council of New Zealand
Colab Creative Technologies/AUT University Auckland.
Exhibited: Silo Summer of Sculpture, Auckland. 2013. ‘Lines in the Ocean’ exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile, 2013 & Tjibaou Cultural Centre, New Caledonia 2015.
Phil Dadson’s transdisciplinary practice includes digital video/audio and installation, performances and exhibitions, building experimental sonic objects, graphic scores, drawing, music composition and improvisations on invented instruments. Following membership of the foundation group for Scratch Orchestra (London, 1969, with Cornelius Cardew, Michael Parsons and others), Dadson returned to New Zealand to establish Scratch Orchestra (NZ), and later From Scratch (1974 – 2004), remembered as New Zealand’s most original rhythm/performance group, known internationally for its funky rhythms and compelling performances on original instruments. Appointed to the Elam School of Fine Arts Sculpture department in 1977, Dadson was made Head of Intermedia/Time-based arts in 1986; a position he held and was influential in until 2001 when he left to focus on his personal practice. He has been the recipient of many key awards and commissions including a Fulbright Cultural Travel Award to the USA, an Arts Foundation Laureate Award in 2001, Antarctica Artist Fellowship in 2003, ONZM in 2005 and various International research residencies including a Wallace/Fulbright Headlands residency award for 2016. He lives in Auckland with his wife Camilla and loves nothing more than drifting off shore in a kayak. He is represented by Trish Clark Gallery, Auckland.
The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Saturday 28th November, 2015
From 6:00pm
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This memorial event celebrating the life of our friend George Gosset is happening on the evening of 28th November. All friends and family of George are invited to come along to share stories and pictures, shed tears, play records, perform, or just simply be there amongst those who valued him.
While there will be plenty of room for spontaneous contributions on the night, if you’d like to perform or contribute anything specific, please drop Ros or Jo a message as they’re putting together a rough programme for the evening.
The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Friday, November 27th, 2015
From 7:00pm
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Evelyn Morris has been playing music under the Pikelet name for around ten years, and has taken the act through many different musical territories throughout the 3 albums and various EPs. Her most recent approach is a throwback to how the act first started; as an improvised exploration into pop music and emotional expression. Mesmerising soundscapes and textures that embrace moments of perceived imperfection to be reshaped into intentional pop-bending experimentation. She’ll be selling a limited edition New Zealand tour EP, recorded specifically for this trip.