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Party Of Special Things To Do with Franziska Baumann (Switzerland)

Events

Franziska BaumannThe Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Saturday 6th February, 2016
From 8pm
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The Auricles monthly improv night is back!

Special guest Franziska Baumann is a pioneer in extended vocal technique and interdisciplinary performance whose work discloses the intersection of voice and gesture, space and sound in an effort to discover and weave together new modes of perception, vocal creation and its theatricality.

As a vocalist she explores the human voice as a multi-faceted instrument expanding traditional boundaries. She has developed an extensive vocabulary of experimental and extended vocal techniques such as multiphonics and glottal clicks and a variety of unique microtonal, timbre-modifying and percussive vocal techniques that have become her “signature sounds”. Exploring new sounds, new vocal techniques and new forms of articulation, whereby great emphasis is placed on establishing improvisation. Central to her vocal concepts are also the areas of music scenery and the interdisciplinary work with electronics, video, visual arts and literature, as well as the juxtaposition of contrasting elements found in contemporary music, jazz and ethno.

http://www.franziskabaumann.ch/en/biography/

Franziska Baumann is supported by:

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CHRIS ABRAHAMS & ANTHONY PATERAS: 176 (2007/16)

Events, Exhibits

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Showing: 4th – 28th February, 2016
Opening: Thursday 4th February, 6-8pm
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176 is a 2-hour tape piece for two pianists who don’t use their fingers, only playing with all other parts of their arms, very softly and with no sustain pedal. Featuring two usually dexterous performers, the strategy is an inbuilt subversion mechanism of their typical techniques, thus existing as a complete anomaly in their respective oeuvres. Two Steinway Ds were recorded at ABC Melbourne, close miked at high gain to exaggerate the tactility and fragility of performance. The Auricle installation is the world premiere of this work.

Chris Abrahams (B. 1961, Sydney) is best known as the pianist for the legendary Australian trio The Necks. He made a name for himself in Australia as part of Mark Simmonds’ Freeboppers in the 80s and as a close collaborator of Melanie Oxley’s in the 90s. Abrahams can currently be found in close playing partnerships with Australian composer Anthony Pateras, German percussionist Burkhard Beins, and Italian laptop composer/linguistic deconstructionist Alessandro Bosetti.

Anthony Pateras (B. 1979, Melbourne) is a composer, pianist and electro-acoustic musician. His work explores sound and its mutation through varying constellations of notation, improvisation, electronic and acoustic materials. Pateras’ compositions have been performed worldwide and he has toured his own bands since the late 1990s. Aside from recently releasing tētēma: geocidal with Mike Patton, he runs the Immediata label, which will be releasing a series of 15 investigative CDs with interviews and essays throughout 2016/17.

Recorded by Christopher Lawson, Iwaki Auditorium, ABC Southbank, Melbourne. 5.1  mix and master by Byron Scullin, Deluxe Mastering, Melbourne.

http://www.thenecks.com/bio
http://anthonypateras.com/

Beam Splitter & Anthony Pateras

Events

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.

http://anthonypateras.com/
http://beamsplitter.org/

Experimental 2016

Events

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