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Signal – Noise: Voronoi & Asteroid Anxiety… with DJ King Swing

Events

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Saturday 19th March, 2016
From 8pm
Facebook event

This months Signal-Noise features:

Voronoi: Microsound, ambience, and walls of distortion.

Asteroid Anxiety: Fierce spacefaring drones, interstellar ambience composed on idisosyncratic technology.

Dowstairs DJ King Swing: Will keep you entertained between sets with some of his lasting digital crate digging finds.

Passage to the City by Budhaditya Chattopadhyay

Events

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Showing: 3rd-31st March, 2016
Opening: Thursday 3rd March, 6-8pm

Passage to the City explores the imperceptible sound-field existing between the itinerant city-dweller and the inhabited urban space of everyday. The project uses the method of sensitizing resonant frequency of the inaudible space by performative intervention of the city-dweller to develop a contingent composition. The resultant work redefines the ecologies of everyday listening by making hidden sound elements audible to the ear, in the process triggering the city-dweller’s imagination and awareness of an innate and pervasive sound-field present even in a presumably silent empty-space within the tangible environment of the city. Sounds generated by city-dweller’s interaction with the city are digitally mapped and mediated as primary materials of the work.

Budhaditya Chattopadhyay is an Indian artist and researcher working with sound and new media. Chattopadhyay’s work questions the materiality, site-specificity and object-hood of sound, and addresses the aspects of contingency, contemplation and mindfulness inherent in listening. His works have been published by Gruenrekorder (Germany) and Touch (UK). Chattopadhyay has received several residencies and international awards, notably an Honorary Mention at PRIX Ars Electronica 2011, Linz, and First Prize in Computer and Electronic Music category of Computer Space festival 2014, Sofia. Appearing in numerous exhibitions, concerts, conferences and festivals, Chattopadhyay’s sound-works have been exhibited, performed or presented among others in Transmediale, Berlin; TodaysArt Festival, The Hague; Donau Festival, Krems; IEM, Kunstuniversität Graz; Sonorities Festival, Belfast; Akusmata, Helsinki; Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen; CTM, Berlin; Errant Bodies, Berlin; CPH PIX, Copenhagen; Hochschule Darmstadt, Dieburg; SoundFjord, London; Deutschlandradio, Berlin; Institut für Neue Medien, Frankfurt; and Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen.

Website: http://budhaditya.org

Forest Fire by M.E.Grimm

Events, Exhibits

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Showing: 3rd-31st March, 2016
Opening: Thursday 3rd March, 6-8pm
Facebook event

FOREST FIRE simulates “the accident” by pulling real-time online weather data from ecologically volatile regions in California, US. High temperatures in conjunction with wind speed, coupled with low humidity, create conditions optimal for combustion. This work utilizes these parameters to synthesize the sound of a forest fire engulfing the listener in the situational dynamics of disaster when environmental conditions are ripe for nature to exploit. Sound is fully synthesized with computer software and fire predictions are heard in the form of hissing, crackling, creaking, flames and wind. Sound synthesis and visuals are realized using the visual programming language Pd (Puredata) and draw inspiration from the sound design work of Andy Farnell.

m.e.grimm has been experimenting with digital and analog sound, in various forms, since the mid 1990’s. An artist based in Ithaca, NY, Grimm teaches media arts and technology theory. More of his work can be found at megrimm.net