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Improv Club #9

Auricle Improv ClubThe Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
From 7:00pm
Facebook event

Join us for Improv Club at the Auricle every 2nd Wednesday of the month.

Open to all comers; from musical neophytes to experienced improvising musicians and experimental noise makers; from graphic scores to game play and an-archy; from free Jazz to electronically structured and open improv; from Occidental tempered scale to full bandwidth white noise; from Braxton to Cardew to Bailey and beyond.

All are welcome!

Artist Talk – Sarah Kelleher (aka Misfit Mod)

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Saturday the 23rd of May, 2015
Saturday Matinee from 2:00pm
Facebook event

Sarah Kelleher aka Misfit Mod, released her debut album Islands + Islands through New York based record label Stars & Letters Records in 2013. Her work has been featured by Interview Magazine, Under the Radar, Refinery29, the BBC and MTV IGGY voted her as one of the ’7 New Zealand Bands that Deserve a Big Breakthrough’. She has recently collaborated with musicians from Sweden, London and New York. Also an audio engineer and lecturer, Sarah has taught at the School of Audio Engineering in London and Oxford, U.K.

Come down to The Auricle, have a glass of wine and listen to Sarah chat about her work to date, with a strong focus on electronic music production and composition.

Check out her work at: www.misfitmod.com

All welcome 🙂

Dotabata & Llara Isabell Arena

scan0003The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Friday, May 15th, 2015
From 8:30pm
Facebook event

Melbourne based artists Dotabata & Llara Isabell Arena bring you a night of ecstatic noise assaults, tape manipulations, and modular madness as part of their New Zealand tour.

https://www.facebook.com/events/819957948098749/

Followed by a matinee collaborative open recording session/performance with local CSSA members the next day…

Nigel Wright

11193230_10153223224373418_3701645251976451626_nThe Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Saturday May 9th, 2015
Matinee show!! – 2pm
$5 on the door to the artists
Facebook event

Emerging from a work/sleep cocoon, Nigel Wright is finally ready to play some new material and test PA’s.

With support from:
Totems
Nick Graham

Nigel Wright has been creating audio for over 10 years and is known for his spacious, expansive sound pieces. Dense layers of tonal drones underpin the field recordings, guitar, and tape loops that Wright uses as source material for his laptop-based live performances.
“Wright works with big, weighty chunks of sound… He uses laptop to weather and rust his guitars strings, ricocheting hefty down-strummed chords through cavernous banks of effects and then watching the overtones drift in the distance, like trailing headlights captured on polaroids.” (Jon Dale – The Wire)

Photography © Marine Aubert

The Softsynth Siren Tour

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Friday April 24th, 2015
From 8:00pm
$10 on the door to the artists
Facebook event

Misfit Mod​
。◕Icy electronic beats, wet synths, and a hypnotic vocals◕。
http://starsandletters.bandcamp.com/album/islands-islandsLttle phnx​
✿ ♥Let LTTLE PHNX lead you through reverb-wet crystal-encrusted caves of longing, as funky-alien arpeggios illuminate a space the size of a human-heart -̮̮̃ •̃
http://crystalmagic.org/album/pyrexia

Instant Fantasy​
・+☆Synth-drone ego-miner*・゚
https://soundcloud.com/instantfantasy/i-dont-see-an-honest-man

Photography © Marine Aubert

Improv Club #8

Auricle Improv ClubThe Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
From 7:30pm
Facebook event

Join us for Improv Club at the Auricle every 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month.

Open to all comers; from musical neophytes to experienced improvising musicians and experimental noise makers; from graphic scores to game play and an-archy; from free Jazz to electronically structured and open improv; from Occidental tempered scale to full bandwidth white noise; from Braxton to Cardew to Bailey and beyond.

All are welcome!

Lines of Flight

lofBruce Russell, Teen Haters, Aletheia Ensemble & Stanier Black 5
Thursday 19 to Saturday 21 March, 2015
Lines of Flight Festival, Dunedin
Facebook Event

The legendary Lines of Flight experimental music festival returns to Dunedin in March as part of the 2015 Dunedin Fringe Festival. It features sixteen hours of performances, showcasing experimentation across a wide range of musical genres: from trancelike drones to fiery free jazz, from delicate electro-acoustics to roaring walls of noise, from cutting edge digital technology to ingenious homemade instruments.

The opening night at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery will include Christchurch electroacoustic group the Aletheia Ensemble and also Stanier Black Five. Her piece ‘Oenosthesia’ is a multi-sensory performance exploring the synergies between sound and taste, and was originally created during an artist’s residency in Southern Italy.

Plus the highlights from the first announcement: Our Love Will Destroy the World’s ecstatic noise, Jeff Henderson and Hermione Johnson’s superb saxophone and prepared piano duo, the hypnotic analogue synth beats of the mysterious Omit, improvised psych/rock from Dunedin’s Eye, turntable cut-up mastery from Wellington’s Alphabethead, a rare performance by the godfathers of free noise A Handful of Dust, featuring Bruce Russell and Alastair Galbraith, and a very rare live outing by the Sandoz Lab Technicians.

Tickets are available via the Dunedin Fringe Festival website, www.dunedinfringe.org.nz

The lineups for each show (in playing order) are as follows:

Thursday 19 March – Dunedin Public Art Gallery, The Octagon, 7.30pm
– Radio Cegeste
– Stanier Black-Five
– Aletheia Ensemble
– Jeff Henderson and Hermione Johnson

Friday 20 March – Chicks Hotel, Port Chalmers, 8pm
– Noel Meek
– The Ladder is Part of the Pit
– Sonny Carver
– Eye
– Peter Kolovos
– Omit

Saturday 21 March – The Anteroom, Masonic Lodge, Port Chalmers, 1pm
– Birdation
– Teen Haters
– Sandoz Lab Technicians
– A Handful of Dust

Saturday 21 March – Chicks Hotel, Port Chalmers, 8pm
– Nick Graham
– Rubbish Film Unit
– Two To Tutu Too
– Alphabethead
– Olympus
– Our Love Will Destroy the World

Teen Haters Sunday Matinee

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Sunday March 8th, 2015
4:00pm
Facebook event

Fresh off the boat and still breathing, Teen Haters invade the Auricle with a bunch of cables and some half-tuned instruments in a last ditch attempt to record an album before the format becomes extinct. Audience members are encouraged to bring their portable recording devices to bootleg the proceedings for possible inclusion in the final album mix.