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Nick Graham, Birdation & Paul Timings

BirdationThe Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Sat June 14, 2014
Doors open 8pm
$5 entry (to the artists)
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Join Dunedin noisists Nick Graham and Birdation for a winters night of sonic texturing, supported by local experimental guitarist Paul Timings.

Nick Graham manipulates the electrical starvation of a dying mixing console, deploying multiple strands of processed feedback to create dense rhythmic drones punctuated by abrasive digital percussion. Currently based in Port Chalmers, Nick has collaborated extensively with performance artists Samin Son and Hana Aoake, as well as forming one half of long standing Dunedin noise-rock outfit Old Psychiatrists Club.

Birdation began a bedroom recording project while her bandmates from Bad Sav were overseas in 2011. Currently it serves as a vehicle for repetitive tropicana with heavy bass and layered vocals. Influenced by soundtracks from video games such as Mass Effect and theme tunes to tv shows like Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.

Paul Timings uses experimental electronic guitar techniques to generate minimalist soundscapes in invoking a sense of recollection and dream.

Photography © 2014 Martine Aubert

Misfit Mod’s Electronic Music Practice for Women

Misfit Mod WorkshopThe Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Workshop 1: 7 – 9pm, Thursday 19th June
Workshop 2: 7 – 9pm, Thursday 26th June
Cost: $10 (per class)
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From inspiration to execution, this workshop is designed to help women discover their own sound, guiding them through the technological process to develop their ideas into a unique body of work. This workshop is designed for those interested in learning:

Basic Recording Techniques
Equipment / Software
Writing / Ideas
Effects / Mixing

This workshop will cultivate a supportive, fun, accessible environment for women in which to start writing and recording their own electronic music. No prior experience is necessary.

Sarah Kelleher aka Misfit Mod, released her debut album Islands + Islands in 2013. Her work has been featured by Interview Magazine, Clash, Under the Radar, the BBC and MTV’s Iggy voted her as one of the ‘7 New Zealand Bands that Deserve a Big Breakthrough’. Also an audio engineer and lecturer, Sarah has worked as a Lecturer at the School of Audio Engineering in London and Oxford, U.K.

Course Info:
The workshops will take place over two evenings. You are welcome to take take both or just one.

Workshop 1: 7 – 9pm, Thursday 19th June
Workshop 2: 7 – 9pm, Thursday 26th June

Cost: $10 (per class)
Includes a complimentary glass of wine
Classes are limited.

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Call: +64 3 260 0501 or +64 225 946 512

This project embraces one of The Auricle’s core objectives to encourage more women to actively participate in sound/music. Please pass these details on to any women you know who might be interested.

Run with funding from Christchurch Community Arts Council Trust.
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Months – IRD – No No No

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Saturday, June 7, 2014
Doors open from 8pm
$5 entry to the artists
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Join the sonic artists Months, IRD and No No No in this CSSA launch event for the new Ben Spiers/Months Split tape and Auricle Recordings’ new CD release, Illuminate featuring Memory Burn, Teen Haters and Zeug Gezeugt. Tapes and CD’s available at the gig and online.

Photography © 2014 Marine Aubert

Captured Space exhibition opening

Captured SpaceThe Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Exhibition opening 5 June, 6-8pm
Free entry
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Join us for the opening of the Eric La Casa and Philip Samartzis sound art work Captured Space, an 8 channel soundscape recording and collaborative artistic project that occupies two parallel environments – the natural and the constructed. Whilst the natural world of South Africa’s Kruger National Park is wild and occasionally ferocious, the constructed world of roads and settlements is pedestrian, designed to keep visitors comfortable and safe from the daily struggle of life and death. From the vantage point of the car one can witness an extraordinary habitat comprising a familiar cast of characters. Yet no matter how far or wide one travels one cannot easily escape the confined space of the car or the high voltage electric fence encircling the tourist resort. Whilst African animals are the mainstay of zoos around the world, at Kruger the animals are the vigilant keepers of an exotic mix of people confined to the smallest of spaces for their own self preservation.