The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Wednesday 12th October
Doors open 7pm
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Come down this fine Spring evening and check out the Erasers and their electronic noise fresh from Perth, Western Australia. They’re on their way through fair Ōtautahi as part of a tour of Aotearoa.
Supported by the CSSA No Ensemble.
The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Friday 7th October
$10 entry from 8pm
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Instant Fantasy x French_concession x Othersun – Live
Artist Toshi Endo will be doing live visuals!
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Instant Fantasy
https://soundcloud.com/instantfantasy
Instant Fantasy plays sexual hypno-drone; songs about tears, getting moist and that sweat you forgot about that happens when you sleep next to another person. Though the songs are sad they give a sense of freedom; post-orgasm after breaking up with someone. It’s all gold for this synth drone ego-miner.
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French_concession 法國租界
https://soundcloud.com/french_concession
Started in Shanghai 2009, French_concession sound has been described by music journalist Martyn Pepperell as “ethereal dream pop vocals, glossy synthesiser arrange-ments and vivid syncopated beatscapes. Aesthetically recalling Darkbloom era Grimes and D’Eon, or even Miharu Koshi’s early Haruomi Hosono produced J-tech-nopop sound, it’s compelling work.”
This time French_concession will be show casing her 4th EP release – ‘At Knifepoint’ – coming out on the 1 Oct, 2016 on Bandcamp and Soundcloud.
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Othersun
https://facebook.com/othersunmusic
Originally from London, Othersun is an electronic musician and producer currently based in Christchurch. Taking inspiration from a wide range of influences, he forms his own blend of melodic and ambient electronica.
Late last year Othersun released the debut music video for the track Fox. This culminated in a strong online following, setting him up for the release of his debut Away – EP on 31/07/2016, accompanied by the DIY music video for the track Never Alone.
Away – EP is FREE and OUT NOW: http://othersun.bandcamp.com/
The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Showing: 6th-27th October, 2016
Opening: 6th October, 6-8pm
Facebook event
Interactive sound installation
On ecologies of transduction
Looking back, you could say it all started from growing up in the middle of nowhere listening to power poles. Putting my ear up to the wooden pole I was compelled by its voices and the accompanying hum. Thirty years later I am still engaged in the practice of listening as a form of attunement to any given place.
The process of mapping, sensing, detection and transformation are a kind of aural forensics. My ongoing interest in participatory sound works is a means of directing attention to the active forces of a place; in particular, the ways in which we exist in a continuum of and specific concentration within the electromagnetic field through our capacity as a transducer.
Transduction is defined as the transformation of one energy state to another. As a process transduction occurs in everything from our human ear to plants to viruses to our cellphone, articulating a field of relations between one thing and another. Adrian Mackenzie describes this field of relations as a “knotting together of commodities, signs, diagrams, stories, practices, concepts, human and non-human bodies, images and places.”[1]
The activation of sound, linked to a cartographic object has the potential to relay the intersecting and often unseen operations of geo-political, economic, ecological and social infrastructures. The corresponding implications are considered ecologies of transduction.
[1] Adrian Mackenzie, “Theory, Event, Transduction,” 2015. www.lancaster.ac.uk/staff/mackenza/papers/transduction.pdf
Charlotte Parallel is a recent MFA graduate at Otago School of Art and a practicing artist in the fields of sculpture, sound installation, collaboration and performance. Often choosing to respond to site in a temporal way. She has been exhibiting within New Zealand consistently over the last 13 years and internationally since 2010.
Since 2003 Dunedin has been the home base for Charlotte Parallel’s artistic activity which includes a range of curatorial and community initiated collaborative art projects. From 2010 specifically with The Anteroom, a project art space based in Port Chalmers. The Anteroom is an artist run space committed to representing experimental projects with a national and international network of exhibiting artists.
Image courtesy Gilbert May
The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Friday 23rd September
Performances from 8pm
Facebook event
IRD – Occasionals – Regressor w/ guests R. Derrick + P. Buckton
A freak genius, declassified.
A legend of Christchurch’s rave scene, deconstructed.
A local pest, deceased.
A duo of saints, decensored.
Prompt start @ 20:00, more artists TBC.
The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Saturday 24th September
Artist talk from 2pm
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Come along this fine Saturday afternoon to talk with sonic artist John Chrisstoffels about his current Auricle exhibition Jetzt and how it fits into his research.
Jetzt, a German word that means ‘now’ but it sounds and looks a bit like ‘jets’.
‘Now’ or ‘jetzt’ might suggest the ever present moment and for some Germans (perhaps a Hegel or a Heidegger) they might suggest that we pause to think a little deeper about ‘being in time’. Let us imagine that ‘now’ is indeed a ‘jet’. We are passengers seated on a long journey, perhaps the dream destination of our lives. We put our feet up and rest in the knowledge that our safe flight has been measured and calibrated with pinpoint accuracy and we will arrive at our destination on ‘time’. This gives us peace of mind to relax. However, when we think about that something about ‘free will’ appears to gnaw at us inside as we realise we are trapped in a pressurised cabin at 20 000 feet (or a planet hurtling around the sun).
Closing our eyes, we tune into the sounds around us. We hear the hum of the jet engines, and perhaps we catch part of a conversation in a foreign language. There is always the ubiquitous disembodied cry of a baby and importantly the white noise of oxygen pumped around the fuselage. Concentrate hard on the rush of air. We hear it go in and out of phase. Imagine a strange Doppler effect as the sound travelling in the fuselage effected by any number of relative speeds. Yes the speed of sound can be measured but there is at this moment a symphony of infinite possibilities in this moment of being.
John Chrisstoffels has been involved in music and cinematography for over 30 years and presently is a Senior Lecturer in Film at the Canterbury University School of Fine Arts. His research into ‘transient places’ such as Aircraft Fuselages and Airport Terminals are central to his current DocFA thesis.