What's On: Events

Blankets / Regressor

Events

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Thursday 16th March
8pm
Facebook event

 

Sasha Ford is a researcher and sound artist currently based in Montreal, Canada. Her practice centers around sound composition and performance, experimental art criticism, and philosophical writing. An active member of DIY music scenes across Canada for over a decade, Ford has performed in dozens of cities across North America as part of numerous musical projects. Most recently with her solo experimental electronic project Blankets, she performed at the International Noise Conference in Miami, and the Ende Tymes Festival of Noise and Experimental Liberation in Brooklyn, NY. She holds an MA in Media Studies from Concordia University and is currently at work writing a collection of essays of aesthetic theory.

Regressor is a corpse.

$5

 

Teen Haters

Events

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Sunday 5th March
2pm
Facebook event

 

Teen Haters
Lazy Sunday Afternoon matinee
The Auricle
5 March – 2pm

After the dastardly last minute cancellation of their appearance at the recent POSTTD festival, Lyttelton’s supreme drone ratbags are set to dupe you all once again with a rare afternoon appearance at the Auricle. Those of a nervous disposition need to be forewarned: the guitarist is threatening to play in a standard tuning for the first time in 15 years, while the cellist will be debuting a new effects unit without having consulted the manual. There have been no rehearsals. A qualified doctor will be on hand to provide philosophical comfort to the mixing console. It could well be the performance of the year, and it’s only March.

No charge, children welcome (BYO restraints).

Mixtape by CSSA

Events, Exhibits

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Thursday 2nd March
5:30 pm
Facebook event

The ‘mixtape’ is a familiar idea: a compilation of pre-existing recordings that expresses the taste and identity of the compiler, and which often is intended as a gift to a particular recipient. Compiling a mixtape is a creative act analogous to that performed by a DJ or, indeed, any art curator. It involves all manner of practical and aesthetic decisions in selection and sequencing of material, and in the way this is presented. Making a mixtape is like constructing an art museum group show in miniature – one, however, that takes place in a non-institutional and amateur setting. ‘Mixtape’ at the Auricle seeks to bridge personal and public spheres in the form of a gift from its contributing artists to any receptive ears.

Reuben Derrick
Alex Donnithorne
IRD
David Khan
Greg Malcolm
Tony Miles
Bruce Russell
Stanier Black-Five
Adam Willetts

Jerome Noetinger, Bruce Russell, Champions of the World

Events

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Saturday 4th March
8pm
Facebook event

 

Jerome Noetinger composes studio-based works and performs improvised music using reel to reel tape recorders and magnetic tape, analogue synthesisers, mixing desks, speakers, microphones, various electronic household objects and home-made electronica. He performs both solo and in ensembles and tours extensively.

Noetinger is director of Metamkine, a non-profit organisation dedicated to the distribution of improvised and electroacoustic music.

Bruce Russell is a founding member and guitarist of the noise rock trio The Dead C and the free noise combo A Handful of Dust (with Alastair Galbraith). He has released solo albums featuring guitar and tape manipulation, and has contributed articles to British music magazine The Wire.

He established the Xpressway record label, which was active from 1985 until the early 1990s, releasing mostly cassettes and a few records. Russell then founded the Corpus Hermeticum record label. Xpressway released only music by New Zealanders, usually song-based. Corpus Hermeticum releases, in contrast, may feature New Zealand or international artists, and they eschew song forms in favor of free-form, experimental, usually improvised sounds.

Champions of the World are two derilict and shady characters who grew up in Sumner.

The Auricle
8:00 PM
$10