The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Friday 4th September, 2015
From 8:00pm
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Non-compliance with State sponsored 21st C technological constraints on our social order manifests itself as noise, resistance is futile, we have been assimilated. Join us.
The Usual Electroacoustic Suspects + Josh Greene and George Aitken + Resurrection
The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Saturday August 22, 2015
From 7:00pm
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IRD presents 34 revolutions combed over bar chord tab accordance.
3 turtletables, various audio ephemera and downright troddin’ sound from a lucky surprise selection of local selectors will help provide an atmosphere of mirth and frivolity. Vee-Aitch-Esser-leckshun upstairs for narrow view zone outs with Mr “Catman” Ray Tuber.
The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Showing: 2-31 July, 2015
Opening: Thursday 2nd July, 6-8pm
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Continuous Flow Machines is an 8 channel 3rd order ambisonic soundscape (60’00’’) recorded at the Pfleiderer Institute for Fluid Machinery, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany and reproduced in the Auricle’s 8.1 ambisonic surround sound Gallery.
Listen to the unremarkable stasis of steady flow, moving aimlessly forward in always new sound layers by gradual compression and uncompression, speaking for nothing other than itself.
German composer, sonic artist and musicologist Clemens von Reusner studied percussion with Abbey Rader and Peter Giger, has been engaged in electronic music and soundscape composition since the 1970’s, and developed the pioneering graphical scoring application Kandinsky Music Painter.
The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Thursday June 18th, 2015
From 8:30pm
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An eclectic evening of synthpop, improvisation and static instantiation replete with designated wine breaks.
With sounds provided by:
French Concession
Paul Timings (last NZ performance for a few months) playing guitar and sine wave pattern generator
Nicolas Woollaston, Mike Minchington and Paul Timings
The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Saturday June 6, 2015
7pm: Radiophonic documentary
From 8pm – Music and live acts
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Journey back in time with the futuristic sounds of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop in a night of vintage music made and inspired by the legendary department. The evening blasts off with a film about the pioneering electronic studio, followed by radiophonic music playing all night in the bar and live performances upstairs from Nicolas Woollaston, Adam Willetts, Richard B. Keys, David Khan and the specially formed Auricle Radiophonic Orchestra.
Established in 1958 to produce new music and sound effects for radio and then television, it was responsible for classic tunes such as the original Dr Who theme to sound effects for the Goon Show. While much of its output still sounds amazingly modern, the sounds of its classic era were created using very basic equipment, such as old test equipment and tape recorders. Employing the techniques of musique concrète, natural sounds – often of everyday objects – were recorded, manipulated and transformed into the often highly atmospheric soundtracks for which the workshop became known.
The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Thursday May 28, 2015
8:00pm
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Join Luke Sole, Tim McGurk and the Auricle Improv Team for an evening of electroacoustic improvisation using the deconstructed remnants from Rekindle’s Whole House Reuse Project remixed in 8.1 surround sound!
Photography © Marine Aubert
The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Saturday June 27, 2015
7:00pm
$150 bookings essential via {This email is obscured. Your must have javascript enabled to see it}
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Food, sound and visual art combine in Sensation, an evening of multisensory dining that’s likely the first public event of its kind in New Zealand. Chef Alex Davies, sound artist and wine writer Jo Burzynska and visual artist, Toshi Endo will be creating a seven-course immersive experience designed to stimulate all the senses.
Recent developments in psychology have shown the complex ways in which the senses interact, which can be harnessed to heighten the diner’s enjoyment of a meal. Sensation is a collaboration that taps into these synergies and employs the findings of this new wave of “neurogastronomical” research.
Fusing food with art, each of the seven courses will explore a different mood or theme. Textures, aromas, flavours, colours, images and sounds work in harmony in the combination of dishes, wines and specially composed music and live visuals.
Sensation is a one-off pop-up event hosted in the auditorium of The Auricle gallery, an establishment that has a strong connection with the multisensory in boasting the world’s first wine and sound bar.
Artist biographies
Alex Davies has made his name through the seasonal cuisine he serves from his tiny kitchen at Shop Eight in Christchurch. Since January 2013 he has been using exclusively local produce to design dishes of surprising complexity. Challenging himself to a daily changing menu his food is ever evolving and is recognised for its intelligence, creativity and resourcefulness.
Jo Burzynska is a wine writer who pens one of the country’s most widely read wine columns in the New Zealand Herald’s Viva magazine, contributes to specialist wine publications worldwide 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 who combines her interests in taste and sound in various multisensory projects, such as The Auricle wine and sound bar.
Toshi Endo is a multimedia artist who specialises in digital technology. He has a Masters of Creative Media and has worked widely in the digital media industries: from lectureship roles in art and design to video game production. He has exhibited across New Zealand; with international shows and publications in the United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, and Japan.
Photography © Marine Aubert
The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Friday June 19, 2015
7:00pm
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If you’re a music and wine lover that hasn’t yet experienced Jo Burzynska’s fascinating introductory wine and music matching workshop, this tasting-with-a-difference is a must. Jo – who is both a wine writer and sonic artist – will be exploring the surprisingly powerful synergies between wine and sound.
Through pairing a diverse selection of delicious wines with a wide array of music, Jo will explore the harmonies and discords that can be created by different combinations and illustrate how the perception of a wine’s flavours can be altered by what we’re listening to when we drink it.
Burzynska is one of the country’s most widely read wine writers, penning regular columns in The Press, New Zealand Herald and Wine NZ 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 pieces and workshops.
The Auricle is a sonic arts venue that features the world’s first wine and sound bar, whose wine list is curated by Jo to complement the various exhibitions and music played in the space.
More information about Burzynska’s wine writing can be found at joburzynska.com and her sound art at stanierblackfive.com.
The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Saturday June 13, 2015
8pm (prompt start for artist talk)
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Live wine and sound performance & artist talk
Oenosthesia is a multi-sensory sound and taste project by Christchurch-based sound artist and wine writer Jo Burzynska (aka Stanier Black-Five). In this performed version (Oenosthesia III), Burzynska will be creating a live soundscape using recordings made in vineyards and wineries in Southern Italy that works with the characters of three different wines given to the audience at key points in the work.
In Oenosthesia III, Burzynska explores the way in which sound influences the perception of taste through the changing timbres and frequencies of the performance in combination with different styles of wine. This work both evolved and is created from wine, bringing together Burzynska’s two professional interests to create a unique experience based on the science of sensory interaction.
The work was initially created as an installation from a “Suoni dal confine” artist residency in Irpinia, Italy and premiered at the Interferenze New Art Festival’s Factory of Art Rurality and Media 2012 (FARM2012) in Tufo, Italy.
Before the performance, Burzynska will present a brief overview and discussion of the concepts and creative process behind the Oenosthesia project and the other works that are part of her multisensory Mishearings exhibition showing at The Auricle in June.
Burzynska is one of the country’s most widely read wine writers, penning regular columns in The Press, New Zealand Herald and Wine NZ 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 pieces and workshops.
Wines kindly supplied by Pegasus Bay and Quartz Reef.
More information about Burzynska’s wine writing can be found at joburzynska.com and her sound art at stanierblackfive.com.
The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Showing: 4-30 June, 2015
Opening: 4th June, 6-8pm
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Mishearings, by Jo Burzynska (aka Stanier Black-Five), is a collection of sound-based installations that use the interaction of the senses to alter or intensify perceptions through the combination of sensory stimuli. Burzynska draws both on her own studies in sound and taste and current psychological research into crossmodal correspondences. These have shown that the senses can have a powerful influence over each other, with the conceptual elements of each exhibit achieved or intensified by employing auditory illusions.
In Hearing Lips and Seeing Voices Burzynska presents an audio-visual poem that can be perceived in three ways that offer up very different meanings. This uses the “McGurk Effect”, an illusion that occurs when the auditory component of one word is paired with the visual component of another, leading the viewer to perceive a third different word. Bittersweet is a work for 8 speakers and chocolate. This soundscape, created from the sounds of food production, cycles between low pitched industrial drones and high pastoral frequencies, which change the perception of the flavour of the chocolate from bitter to sweet.
The brain’s ability to construct meaning through noise is harnessed in Poetry as I need it, an exploration of sound, silence, form and time using John Cage’s Lecture on Nothing. And all the senses entwine in Carbonic oscillation, a chamber offering a highly visceral experience of effervescence, which participants are encouraged to experience with a glass of sparkling wine.
Burzynska will also be hosting a series of multisensory events over the month of the exhi-bition:
Thursday 4 June (6pm) – Opening event: featuring Carbonic Oscillation in the bar
Saturday 13 June – Oenosthesia III: artist talk and live sound and wine performance
Sunday 14 June – Wine and music matching workshop at the New Zealand Boutique Wine Festival, Auckland
Friday 19 June – Wine and music matching workshop
Saturday 27 June – Sensation: a multisensory dining experience: collaboration between Burzynska, chef, Alex Davies (Shop Eight) and visual artist, Toshi Endo
Jo Burzynska – who also records and performs under the name Stanier Black-Five – is a Christchurch-based sound artist and wine writer whose work in these areas has increas-ingly converged in the production of multisensory art. Her installations and performances regularly combine sound and taste, created at the intersection of the senses. Recent work includes the public installations Resonifying the city in Cathedral Square, Christchurch (2014); 150 years of rail at Ferrymead Heritage Park in collaboration with Chris Reddington (2013); Stepping Out in Colombo Street, Christchurch (2013) and Oe-nosthesia at the Intereferenze FARM Festival in Tufo, Italy (2012).
Burzynska’s audio work is largely based on the manipulation of her own environmental re-cordings and has been performed and released internationally. Live performances include major festivals, such as the London Musicians Collective’s annual Festival of Experimental Music in the UK to New Zealand’s Lines of Flight Festival. Recent album releases include Body Waves and Avast! on the European Entr’acte label. As a writer on music, she has contributed to the likes of the UK’s The Wire magazine and wrote a chapter of the book Erewhon Calling: experimental sound in New Zealand. As a wine critic, she writes one of New Zealand’s most widely read weekly columns for the New Zealand Herald’s Viva magazine.
She is one of the founders of The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery, where she curates The Auricle’s “oenosthetic” wine list, in which she matches wines to the current exhibition and the music playing in the space.
More information about Burzynska’s sound art can be found at stanierblackfive.com and wine writing at joburzynska.com.
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Photography © Marine Aubert
