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yek koo + Toshi Endo + Adam Willetts + DJ Cartography

Events

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Sunday, November 29th, 2015
From 7:30pm
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NY based artist and musician Helga Fassonaki has been in New Zealand for the last couple of months, exhibiting her work Khal at galleries around New Zealand. She will perform a final show in Christchurch in her solo cloak of pocket trumpet and spacial disorientation as yek koo.
http://helgafassonaki.net/yek_koo/
https://soundcloud.com/yek-koo

Sunday night will be her last in the Antipodes, and Helga will be going off in style…

yek koo – Pocket trumpet and vocalisations
Toshi Endo – Synth-drone excursions
DJ Cartography – Chilean electronics at home & abroad

Tasting Notes: A multisensory tasting of craft beers

Events

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Friday, October 30th, 2015
From 7:30pm
$35/seat – bookings essential
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A multisensory tasting of craft beers paired with music performances by the brewers themselves! Ticket includes seven different beers, each paired with a matching live music performance. Food platters to share will be provided.

Explore the stirring synergies between craft beer and experimental music at The Auricle! Just as drinks are complemented by food that enhances their flavours and aromas, sound waves have a profound effect on the perception of taste. Craft beer enthusiasts and music lovers are invited to join us in a unique multisensory tasting of fine craft beers and specially composed music.

Wine critic and sound artist Jo Burzynska will introduce you to the concept of taste and music matching, then will lead you through the tasting of 7 special brews paired with complementary tunes performed live by the brewers and collaborators.

KL Soundscapes by Paul Timings

Events, Exhibits

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Showing: 5th – 29th November, 2015
Opening: Thursday 5th November, 6-8pm
Seminar: Saturday 7th November, 3pm
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KL Soundscapes is an interactive algorithmic composition playing sounds in rhythmic patterns, at volumes and speeds determined by you the gallery participant. The rhythmic patterns are integer-based transcriptions of modern musical notations of the folk idiom – in this instance the notation of a traditional Malaysian percussion ensemble. The sounds are composed from selected field recordings gathered during Timings’ artist residency in Malaysia during July – September 2015, along with mathematically produced generative synthesis. The combined effect of the synthesis produces a harmonic structure of detuned whole tone scales.

The artist would like to invite you to take the time to explore the rhythmic patterns, field recordings and synthesis firstly as an artist’s descriptive experience; and secondly as several signs comprising a system, and their relative meanings in the context of a temporal framework where modality focuses on the digital vernacular.

Paul Timings is a sound artist who performs experimental music; composes field recordings and electroacoustic recordings; and organises sound. KL Soundscapes is a result of an international artist residency awarded by the Asia New Zealand Foundation, and was primarily organised when Timings was located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for a three month period. Paul will give a Saturday Matinee artist seminar on the 7th Nov from 3pm, speaking of his experiences and arts practice in Malaysia.

The composition’s interface was designed by sound artist Nicolas Woollaston.

Audacious Saturday Matinee

Events

11334273_10153069640048865_4940084707864690343_oThe Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Saturday October 24th, 2015
Doors open from 2:30pm

Richard B. Keys & Julia Harvie – High Frequency Trading – A performance piece for electronic sound and dance, that explores the relationship between freedom and improvisation and the  technological and economic forces that influence (and seek to define) the contemporary subject. The piece employs data-sonification of the stock market in real time to produce generative sound which the dancer interprets.

Stanier Black-Five – Oenosthesia III – A further development of the Oenosthesia project that began on a artist residency in Irpinia, Italy. Stanier Black-Five will create a wine soundscape live, the works to extend and augment the texture and flavours of a number of different wines.

Audacious 2015 Opening

Events

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Friday, October 23rd, 2015
From 7:00pm
Koha to the artists
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Ariana Tikao & Mahina-Ina Kaui – A Karakia and Karanga by Ariana Tikao and Mahina-Ina Kaui will open the Audacious Festival of Sonic Arts 2015 followed by a range of performances of taonga pūoro, electro-acoustic improvisation and noise.

Kathleen Kim – is an experimental composer and musician whose current and past projects include LA Fog, SheKhan and Lady Noise. She has a background in classical, jazz and improvisational.

Richard Francis employs musique concrete techniques, and modular synthesis to conjure nuance worlds of sound.

Ladder is Part of the Pit – Dunedin’s finest exponents of electro-acoustic experimentation. The Ladder is Part of the Pit will close the evening with their own exquisite of “glaciated collective sonic ritual prayer“.

 

SCAPE Sonic Portraits Workshops

Events

Sonic Portrait Workshop Part 1
Scape Art Central, Corner of Gloucester & Colombo St, Christchurch City
Saturday 17 October 2015 11:00am – 12:30pm
Sonic Portrait Workshop Part 2
CPIT, Madras St, Christchurch City
Saturday 31 October 2015 11:00am – 1:00pm
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Bookings essential via SCAPE or email {This email is obscured. Your must have javascript enabled to see it}

The Cantabrian Society of Sonic Artists (CSSA) in partnership with SCAPE Public Art present Sonic Portraits, a unique exploration of self and world through sound via two workshops in the art of audio field recording and composition. The Auricle’s Sonic Portraits workshops offer a unique opportunity to compose a self-portrait through sound. Drawing on the practices of active listening, sound walking and field recording followed by multichannel audio mixing, participants will be guided through the composition of a sonic portrait of their lived, day-to-day experience of the sound environment they inhabit.

Part 1 is an introductory session explaining the basic concepts concerning active listening, and practical recording techniques. Between the introductory and editing sessions, participants will have two weeks to make recordings of their own, unique sound-environment at their discretion. No prior experience with recording, audio editing, or sound practices are required. All you need are open ears and a simple recording device, which could range from a smart phone to a stand-alone portable audio recorder.

Khal Performances

Events

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Friday, October 9th, 2015
From 7:00pm
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A performative iteration of Helga Fassonaki’s project Khal, on exhibit at the Auricle this October, with five local sonic artists performing original Khal scores:

  • Stainer Black-Five (Jo Burzynska) – performing ‘One Two Sides Dirty’
  • Mela (Helen Greenfield) – performing ‘Remove’
  • Misfit Mod (Sarah Kelleher) – performing ‘Hair Porn’
  • French Concession (Ella) – performing ‘Heavy Light’
  • Instant Fantasy – performing ‘One Song Two Sides Bold Breathing’

Khal by Helga Fassonaki

Events, Exhibits

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Showing: 8th – 31st October, 2015
Opening: Thursday 8th October, 6-8pm
Performances: Friday 9th October from 7pm
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An iteration of Helga Fassonaki’s project Khal with the original 16 scores and recorded interpretations by the participating artists. In addition five local artists will be performing Fassonaki’s scores live on Friday 9 October at the Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery.

While residing in Tabriz, Iran for a month in 2014, Helga Fassonaki made 16 sculptural ‘scores’, which were sent abroad for 16 female artists to interpret. In order for these scores to be performed in a legal fashion, they had to be unleashed from the laws that rule post-revolutionary Iran, laws that forbid women from singing in public because of ‘the seductive quality of the female voice’. Sending these scores out into the world to be performed was an attempt to bring attention to this law whilst also acting as a gentle protest in the form of a disguised language traveling freely and unbound by governing law.

The scores, their performances and reinterpretations are collectively entitled ‘Khal’. Different iterations of Khal are being presented in galleries in the US and New Zealand in 2015 where the scores and their interpretations by the recipients of the scores are being displayed, heard, and reinterpreted – presenting the idea of a ‘living score’ as an archive open to edits, renewal and dialogue. As the series unfolds from one event to another, Fassonaki seeks to create a composition of voices and actions. Like the idea of Khal – a derogatory term in Farsi for Iranian Pop music that was sent to Iran by Iranian US immigrants in the form of homemade mixed tapes so that Iranian residents could listen to their country’s own pop stars.

The original recipients of Fassonaki’s scores include Kali Z Fasteau (NYC, NY), Kelly Jayne Jones (London, UK), Heather Leigh (Glasgow, Scotland), Jenny Gräf (Copenhagen, Denmark), Zaïmph (Brooklyn, NY), Chiara Giovando (Los Angeles, CA), Shana Palmer (Baltimore, MD), Purple Pilgrims (North Island, NZ), Rachael Melanson (London, UK), Christina Carter (Austin, Texas), Gabie Strong (Los Angeles, CA), Ashley Paul (London, UK), Angeline Chirnside (Auckland, NZ), Matana Roberts (NYC, NY), Rachel Shearer with Beth Ducklingmonster (Auckland, NZ), and Kathleen Kim (Los Angeles, CA). Additional participating artists thus far include Suki Dewey, Fariba Safai, Nazanin Daneshvar, Yasi Alipour, Laura Sofia, Julia Santoli, Jo Burzynska, Helen Greenfield, Sarah Kelleher, Ella, and Gemma Syme.

Helga Fassonaki, a recent transplant to New York City, creates and curates sound and visual installations, group situations, films, and performances that utilize and question temporality, power structures, subcultures and the human body as a sculptor of sound in space. Floating between worlds of sound and visual art, Fassonaki borrows from one to set up the rhythms and pulses that inform the other.
www.helgafassonaki.net
Also see www.vimeo.com/album/3309705