What's On: Events

The Art Ensemble of the Ihutai

Events

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Friday 16th September
Doors open from 8pm
Facebook event

 

SILENT FORTRESS with special guests Nicolas Woollaston and Naomi Smith.

Presenting an improvised set of unplugged folk noise.  Sounds of hope
and anguish that will cure you of all that ails you.  Let yourself be
turned inside out and gently scrubbed with half-baked electronics,
abused percussion and asymptotic singing.

A prompt start and an early finish so you can also enjoy Stef Animal
and New Dawn at the Darkroom.

Audio Archaeology 002

Events

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Thursday 8th September
Doors open from 7pm
Facebook event

 

A low key monthly evening of sonic explorations in a gallery setting through a full sphere ambisonic system. An anti club night of sorts, breaking down the four walls that surround generic electronic sound nights.

Lost Temple & Underslung on helm of nightfall proceedings, Guests: The Port’s Bruce Fox and Seaside.

Welcoming back the port’s Flux the Cynic [Grow Room/Inner Ocean/Mt Fuji Tapes]
as our regular resident lo-fi SP-404 hits of the evening on strictly lo-fi hip hop lounge vibes, dusty loops and some lazy rhymes on a couch this time around in the organic lounge sessions with Flux the Cynic & Seaside.

Bruce Fox Returns from across the seas with a live set alongside Master Lupin spinning Wisdm’s instrumental goodness. [Lost Recs/Indie]

Projector running visuals by Audio Archaeology artists.
8-Channel Full Ambisonic Surround Sound, Wall sub
+ Boosted Audio Archaeology System.

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Audio Archaeology 002 Guest Schedule:

Lost Temple Selections
7:00pm – 7.45pm

Organic Lounge Sessions with Flux the Cynic & Seaside
7.45pm -8.45pm

Bruce Fox Returns: Live Set with Master Lupin
8.45pm – 9.30pm

Lost Temple & Underslung on Helm
9.30pm – 00:00??

Party Of Special Things To Do

Events

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Wednesday 7th September
Doors open from 6pm
Facebook event

 

The Auricle’s monthly improvised music night is back!
An assortment of sound-makers offer an eclectic multitude of improvised delights. Performances are between 10 and 30 minutes each.

Watch this space!

 

Adam Willetts & Asteroid Anxiety

Events

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Friday 2nd September
Doors open from 7pm
Facebook event

 

 

Known mostly for his synthesizer works Adam Willetts will be marking his first performance at the new Auricle gallery with the debut of a new project performing an improvised acoustic work on porutu.

Born in the UK, Asteroid Anxiety was trapped in Russia for many years before escaping to New Zealand. He fled over the icy tundra with rudimentary instruments cobbled together from Soviet space program castaways and nuclear industry detritus, saving them from destruction at the hands of Orthodox vigilantes. Early murmurings about debilitating bucolic influences proved deceptive and his music continues to exist as a cold, dark wasteland devoid of life.

Jetzt by John Chrisstoffels

Events, Exhibits

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Showing: 1st – 24th September, 2016
Opening: 1st September, 6-8pm
Facebook event
Interactive sound installation

 

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.