Automamusic, film still by Aura Satz, Cibachrome print, 2008

Automamusic, film still by Aura Satz, Cibachrome print, 2008

Exhibitions

8 July - 16 August 2008, Preview 9th July 6-9pm
Aura Satz, solo exhibition at Artprojx Space

Weds 16 July 6.30-8.30pm
Andrew Renton (art critic/curator and Director of the Curatorial Programme, Goldsmiths University) in conversation with Aura Satz on the withdrawal of authorship in relation to sound, sound technology and sound art, with live mechanical music performance by Aura Satz.
RSVP required to info@artprojxspace.com

Artprojx Space
53 Beauchamp Place
London SW3 1NY
Tel: 020 7584 0717 or info@artprojxspace.com
www.artprojxspace.com

5 August - 3 September 2011
Automamusic photographs included in the group exhibition IN SEARCH OF ALCHEMIC TIMES

Artists: Aura Satz, Charlesworth, Lewandowski & Mann, Jennifer Walshe, Liliane Lijn, Nathan Witt, Peter Lewis and Makiko Nagaya, Rowena Harris, Steven Ounanian, Tom Badley, Unrealised Projects.
Curated by Cecilia Wee.

Thursday - Saturday 12-6pm
Wednesdays by appointment

235 Brompton Road
London SW3 2EP
email: cecilia@ceciliawee.com
email: info@insearchofalchemictimes.com
tel: 07527 640 419
www.insearchofalchemictimes.com

7 May 2012, performance on the 5th May 2pm
Group exhibition 'The Sight of Sound', Deutsche Bank VIP Lounge, Frieze Art Fair

Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating.  
John Cage
Group exhibition including John Cage, Christian Marclay, Jorge Macchi, Jenny C. Jones, David Ellis and Aura Satz.
Selected works feature artists from the Deutsche Bank Collection who reference music in a variety of ways:  as a structural or notational device, a vehicle for chance and improvisation, or as a social platform for communicating identity.  These artists from different generations share a trajectory of using musical forms as a source and framework. The theme underscores Deutsche Bank’s global commitment to supporting art and music, and promoting cultural advancement through the intersecting worlds of ideas and practices.
The historical influence of musical sound on visual artists is immeasurable, but its effect upon form, process, and conceptual art has clearly become more prevalent in modern times.  From Piet Mondrian’s painting, “Broadway Boogie Woogie,” his homage to jazz, to John Cage and Nam June Paik’s experiments with performance-driven work, to real-time musical interactions via satellite, video and digital interfaces, the relationship between the aural and visual arts are continually shape-shifting.  

Frieze Art Fair on Randall's Island, Manhattan
www.friezenewyork.com

23 January - 3 February 2013
'Soundfigures' exhibition
Solo retrospective at Blaak 10, as part of the 42nd International Film Festival Rotterdam
curated by Edwin Carels

Spiral Sound Coil (2010) is an immersive psychoacoustic installation. Automamusic (2008) looks at self-playing instruments such as the pianola, wind-up music boxes and organs, filmed at the Museum of Music Automatons in Switzerland. Theremin (2010) is part of a series of videos characterised by their unusual sculptural relation to their performer. Sound Seam (2010) uses microscopic close-ups of gramophone grooves and the anatomy of the ear, while the accompanying music includes wax cylinder recordings and otoacoustic sounds emitted by the ear. Oramics (2011) is a homage to Daphne Oram, pioneer of British Electronic Music and creator of hand-wrought, drawn sound. Vocal Flame (2012) is a sound sculpture made using a Ruben's Tube, an acoustic device that visualises sound as a standing wave of small flames, with music by Steven Severin (of Siouxsie and the Banshees).

Blaak 10 Gallery
Witte de Withstraat 7
3012 BL Rotterdam
The Netherlands

https://iffr.com/en/2013/films/soundfigures
https://iffr.com/en/persons/aura-satz

15 February - 11 May 2014
'BOOSTER - Art Sound Machine'
Group exhibition curated by Nik Nowak in conjunction with Marta Herford, Herford Germany

From the barrel organ and the ghetto blaster to the large speaker vehicles at parades or demonstrations, right up to acoustic warfare - regardless of the context in which mobile sound systems are used, we are directly impacted by their equally fascinating and threatening effect. The exhibition "BOOSTER" inquires into the cultural significance of these constructions and their use in the creative arts. Since the start of the 20th century, artists have been producing breathtaking sound machines, again and again stretching the boundaries between different disciplines. The special combination of sculpture, movement and sound takes the visitor into a world that addresses many different senses at once: whether as fragile mechanisms or monumental objects, the mobile sound sculptures generate a pulsating world of (sub)cultural spheres in a choreography of gentle tones and high-volume sounds.
Against a background of spectacular installations and sculptures, the exhibition also traces the global roots of mobile sound systems.

Artists: AUDINT / Toby Heys und Steve Goodman, Massimo Bartolini, Lothar Baumgarten, Benjamin Binder, Katie Callan, Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Tamara Grcic, Mark Leckey, Olaf Mooij, Nomadic Sound System / Ben Newland, Nik Nowak, Tintin Patrone, Aura Satz, Wolfgang Tillmans, Jean Tinguely, and more.

Marta Herford
Goebenstr. 2-10
32052 Herford
Tel +49 5221 9944300
Germany
www.marta-herford.de

13 April - 27 August 2017
'As Above, So below: Portals, Visions, Spirits & Mystics'
Group exhibition at IMMA (Irish Museum of Modern Art), Dublin

Including Hilma af Klint | Kenneth Anger | David Beattie | Nora Berman | Annie Besant | Agnieszka Brzezanska | Alan Butler | James Lee Byars | Cameron | Marcus Coates | Ira Cohen | Ithell Colquhoun | Matt Copson | Stephan Doitschinoff | Hayden Dunham | Stephen Dunne | Susan Hiller | Koo Jeong A. | Alejandro Jodorowsky | Wassily Kandinsky | Rachid Koraichi | Emma Kunz | Frantisek Kupka | Paul Laffoley | Liliane Lijn | Linder | Josiah McElheny | Steve McQueen | Henri Michaux | Pascale Montandon-Jodorowsky | Padraic E. Moore (curatorial advisor) | Bruce Nauman | Austin Osman Spare | Sigmar Polke | The Propeller Group | Patrick Pye | John Russell | Eoghan Ryan | Aura Satz | Suzanne Treister | Grace Weir, amongst others. Curated by Sam Thorne and Rachael Thomas.

A fully-illustrated book is published to accompany the exhibition which features contributions from Erik Davis, Jennifer Higgie, Alejandro Jodorowsky and Pascale Montandon-Jodorowsky, Dr Tina Kinsella, Linder, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Rachael Thomas, Sam Thorne and Maurice Tuchman, amongst others. Price €20 available to buy from the IMMA shop.

Irish Museum of Modern Art
Royal Hospital Kilmainham
Military Rd, Kilmainham
Dublin 8, Ireland
http://www.imma.ie/en/page_237202.htm

Screenings:

23 January 2008
Screened with a talk by Aura Satz at the Photographer's Gallery

The Photographer's gallery
6-8 Newport Street
London WC2H 7HY
Free, booking recommended
www.photonet.org.uk

6 June 2008
Automamusic was screened as part of Late at Tate Britain: Rehang Artprojx Presents... STILL FILM

A selection of artist's films with a sculptural sensibility. The films share a fixed camera gaze, an inherent quality and lingering effect despite their simplicity. Including films by Matt Calderwood, Ryan Gander, Michael Nyman, Aura Satz, Richard Wilson. Compilation selected by David Gryn, Artprojx.

Tate Britain Auditorium
Millbank
London (England) SW1P 4RG
tel +44 (0)20 7887 8000
fax +44 (0)20 7887 8008
Free, tickets available on the night, no bookings taken
www.tate.org.uk/britain/eventseducation/latetatebritain/14333.htm

16-18 January 2009
Screened as part of Museumsnacht, Museum for Music Automatons, Seewen, Switzerland, and Museum of Music, Basel

Also as part of Museumsnacht the Automatic Ensemble will premiere at the Church of St. Leonhard (Basel) and the Museum for Music Automatons (Seewen)

Museum for Musikautomaten,
Sammlung Dr.h c. H. Weiss-Stauffacher
Bollhobel 1
4206 Seewen, Switzerland
Tel. +41 61 915 98 80
Fax +41 61 915 98 90
E-Mail: musikautomaten@bak.admin.ch
www.landesmuseen.ch
www.museumsnacht.ch

4 & 5 March 2009
Screened as part of Artprojx Presents... STILL FILM at Site Gallery, Sheffield

A selection of artist's films with a sculptural sensibility. The films share a fixed camera gaze, an inherent quality and lingering effect despite their simplicity. Including films by Matt Calderwood, Louise Camrass, Andrew Cross, Ryan Gander, William Hunt, Michael Nyman, Aura Satz, Richard Wilson.
Compilation selected by David Gryn, Artprojx.

Site Gallery
1 Brown Street
Sheffield S1 2BS
Tel:+44 (0)114 281 2077
Fax:+44 (0)114 281 2078
Email: info@sitegallery.org
www.sitegallery.org
www.artprojx.com

9 May 2009 16.00-23.00pm
Screened as part of SonicRecycler5

Reduce, Re-use, Recycle
A unique evening of provocative, entertaining and experimental music, presented by Sprawl, Brentford Recycling Action Group and Watermans. SonicRecycler5, the fifth in an annual series, is an event showcasing the many different strands of eclectic ideas in music, and promoting recycling concepts. With performers, DJ's, films, stalls and interactive presentations, it's a packed evening of radical sounds in a lovely Thameside venue, overlooking Kew Gardens - Think: Reduce, Re-use, Recycle.
Films by Aleks Kolkowski & Aura Satz will be shown from 3pm to 4pm at the Musical Museum

Watermans Artcentre
40 High Street, Brentford
London, TW8 0DS
www.sprawl.org.uk
www.musicalmuseum.co.uk

22 - 31 May 2009
Screened as part of Artprojx presents OPERA & STILL-FILM, LOOP festival, Barcelona, Spain

OPERA is a selection of films by contemporary artists who have utilised, investigated and celebrated opera and contemporary classical music. Including films by Alice Anderson, Martha Colburn, Haris Epaminonda, Karen Knorr, Rut Blees Luxemburg, Tania Mouraud, Michelle Naismith, Mariele Neudecker, Jayne Parker, Sophy Rickett, Susanne Winterling.
STILL FILM is a selection of artist's films with a sculptural sensibility. Including films by Matt Calderwood, Louise Camrass, Andrew Cross, Ryan Gander, William Hunt, Michael Nyman, Aura Satz, Richard Wilson.
Compilations selected by David Gryn, Artprojx.

Espai Liceu
Rambla, 51-59
Barcelona, Spain
Tel: +93 485 9900
www.liceubarcelona.com
www.loop-barcelona.com
www.artprojx.com

Friday 22 October 2010
Screened as part of Mikhail Karikis' 'Love Songs for Broken Machines', Kings Place, London

This event is a spectacle of music and video bringing together the hitch and glitch of failed technologies with the humour and romance of love songs. Contemporary vocal trio juice present the English premiere of specially commissioned songs by leading composers and pop artists including Gavin Bryars, Micachu, Dai Fujikura, Phillip Neil Martin, Anna Meredith, Damien Harron, E.laine, Roxanna Panufnik, Errollyn Wallen and Jim Moray. They are joined by Ensemble Scratch the Surface who feature, amongst others, an audiovisual performance for modified piano by pinaist extrodinaire Leon Michener, a (re)construction of hybrid pianos by 'better known as' aka Lemon Drizzle the alter egos of composer Claudia Moliter and pianist Sarah Nicolls and films by visual artist Aura Satz and collective Flat-e.
This event is curated by Mikhail Karikis with Conall Gleeson and juice. Love Songs is a new commission funded by Arts Council England.

Kings Place
90 York Way
London N1 9AG
Tel: 020 7520 1490
www.kingsplace.co.uk

31 Jan - 5 Feb 2012
Automamusic screened with Q&A session as part of Transmediale 2012, In/Compatible video programme, curated by Marcel Schwierin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berliner

Haus der Kulturen der Welt
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10
10557 Berlin
Germany
Tel 030 397870
www.hkw.de/de/index.php
www.transmediale.de/content/automamusic-0
www.transmediale.de

18 March 2014
Automamusic screened at RISK Cinema, alongside Jerome Hiler and John Smith, The Harn Museum, Florida

Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art
3259 Hull Road
Gainesville
Florida 32611-2700

Aura's article 'Music of its own Accord' is published in Leonardo Music Journal, issue 20, December 2010, including images of 'Automamusic'