Aurora Engine

We bit of rehearsal ahead of tomorrows history themed Songwriters in Conversation gig in @babayagasns North Shields Hosted by Richard O’Brien @thelasttimeisawrichard with @detroit_tourist_board ‘The Black Path’ Old railway lines. Pit roads. Tarmacked over histories running through County Durham. A ghost story and murder ballad built from collected sounds, field recordings, and fragments from the archive. 👻 Ticket link in stories - and on eventbrite Be Sooo lovely to see you! X #industrialsoundscape #murderballad #ghoststory #blackpath

More special guest intros! As part of the @pianodrome show on Friday 15 May I’m very pleased indeed that we’ll be able to share a couple of songs featuring my amazing @machineorchid bandmates @emmsok & @aurora_engine in glorious acoustic guise 🌸🎶 Pianodrome Bruntsfield 15.5.26 7-9.30pm Caro Bridges | Rory Butler featuring special guests from @machineorchid (acoustic) & @singsongsupperclub Ticket link in linktree and they’re selling quick now so make sure you get one! 🎫

Tickets available now for Songwriters in Conversation 6: Histoy at Baba Yaga’s Loft, North Shields @babayagasns . Playing a half-hour set each and then taking part in the panel discussion will be @detroit_tourist_board and @aurora_engine . Search Eventbrite Songwriters in Conversation or go to the linktree in my bio! #indiepop #alternativemusic #independentmusic #newcastlemusic #northshields

What are the unique things music can do to explore and evoke the past? Is writing a song set in 1985 any different from writing one set in the 19th century? And how do songwriters balance nostalgia, critique, and the values of the present to make stories of bygone days resonate in our own time? Hosted at @babayagasns by @groundbirdsings , this is the sixth in a series of events where some of the North East's top musicians will be in conversation, discussing how they think about the songs they write. This event features @aurora_engine and @detroit_tourist_board Aurora Engine is a songstress and sonic artist from Co. Durham. Fusing real instruments (harp/piano), voice, analogue recording devices and progressive electronics, her work encapsulates a singular and striking sonic landscape. She channels voices past and collects foley sounds which are carefully blended with beguiling songs and compelling soundscapes creating an immersive performance with it’s own visual identity. Expect layered vocals, magic realism, dark themes of contemporary relevance, tales of imaginary friends, miniaturists and the porn industry. In upcoming EP 'Railway Queen' she blends industrial sounds of railways and industries with songs and folk tales of working class life based on her own family heritage. Detroit Tourist Board is an indie-folk trio founded by Detroit-born singer-songwriter Patrick Lawrence, who is now collaborating and performing with a full band: Patrick (lead vocals, uke, violin); Dom Lydon (guitars, vocals), Nicola Bushell (uke, vocals). NARC magazine described their music as 'The perfect backdrop for lazing in the sun, summer road trips or nursing a coffee on a hungover Sunday morning.’ Their new album is 'The Here & The Now.' Each act will play for about 30 minutes each, followed by an onstage Q&A discussion. Doors will be at 5pm, with an opening song from Groundbird around 5:15, Aurora Engine on around 5:30 and Detroit Tourist Board at 6:15, with the Q&A starting at 7. This event is the last in a series of four generously funded by a North Shields Cultural Quarter grant from North Tyneside Council. Tickets from the EventBrite link in my LinkTree!

Heading to @nan_moors_bar_venue_todmorden next weekend 11th April to share a stage with experimental musician @shakeeb.abu.hamdan - if you haven’t heard their music go and check them out NOW! Exciting going ons with percussion and electronics 🤘❤️

Thank to much to Kayleigh Mattson and the @nevolumemagazine team for this review - thank you listening and paying so much attention …especially to the production over which I actually lost sleep on ✨✨✨and thanks even more for getting a copy and posting it to me because I couldn’t find one!

Speculum Bunny Album Launch: The Drug of Love prepare to enter the red room 🩸🍇🩸🍇🩸🍇 a magickal, one off ritual to celebrate the release of THE DRUG OF LOVE; DENTES INFERNI 2 (hells teeth 2) by Speculum Bunny. the first screening of MALUM GRANATUM film written and directed by Speculum Bunny with live score 🩸 not to be missed or repeated 🩸🍇🩸🍇🩸🍇🩸🍇 secret city centre (Glasgow) location confirmed after booking 🩸♥️🩸♥️🩸 20th June/summer solstice 7pm SB photos by @amateur_everything ♥️ With friends! Paul Michael Henry and Iain McDonald @paul.michael.henry “Paul Michael Henry is a dancer, composer, writer, and performance-maker based in Glasgow. Their work lives somewhere between ritual, Butoh, punk rock, ecological enchantment, and the crisis of late capitalism lived through a bodymind that’s deeply confused by it. Recurring themes include love, rebellion, body amnesia, environmental destruction and atrophy of the soul in consumerist society. Iain McDonald is pulled to create—from nothing, from excess—but remains caught between aesthetics, authenticity and representation; the guitar unplayed, phrases suspended, leaving him hoarse, still arguing with a moment long since passed. It has yet to answer.” Aurora Engine @aurora_engine Aurora Engine is a songstress and sonic artist whose practise encompasses feminism and ritual. Fusing real instruments (harp/piano), voice, analogue recording devices and progressive electronics, her work encapsulates a singular and striking sonic landscape. She channels voices past and collects foley sounds which are carefully blended with beguiling songs and compelling soundscapes creating an immersive performance with it’s own visual identity. Expect layered vocals, magic realism, dark themes of contemporary relevance, tales of imaginary friends, miniaturists and the porn industry. #noise #butoh #ritual #glasgowmusic #doom

Huge huge thank you to everyone who came out to celebrate International Women’s Day with us @bongoclub.edinburgh - it was beautiful and fierce fun! Massive thanks to @kirstylawmusic & @estherswiftmusic for their afternoon performances and workshops and to @jemimathewes & @faith.eliott for their gorgeous performances and to the fab @j_b_seal on sound - everyone did a fabulous job and we were able to make a donation to Scottish Women’s Aid with the profits. In such difficult global and political circumstances it’s so important for us to continue coming together, resisting patriarchal systems that harm everyone, demanding better support and protection and making space for downright simple joy. #internationalwomensday #womenmakemusic #independentmusic #edinburgh

Thanks to everyone who joined us at @glasgowtramway last night for Flutter by @aurora_engine @mettjehunneman ✨ More information about our next Cryptic Nights is coming next week… Stay curious. Image credit: @celineantal 📸

Install day 1 for #flutter @crypticglasgow @glasgowtramway Lifting, loading, tying, fixing, shaping, this beautiful creature / sculpture! @mettjehunneman #soundart #lightsculpture #tourettes #electronicmusic

Just under one week to go until Cryptic Nights at @glasgowtramway 💥 Flutter by @aurora_engine is an immersive music and visual performance exploring her lived experience of Tourette’s through voice, harp and electronics. Here’s a first look at @mettjehunneman 's intricate geometric sculpture: a woven network of natural materials and strings transformed by projection into a tactile visual instrument, mirroring every pulse, glitch and harmony of the score. Stay curious… 📍 Tramway 📅 Thursday 5 March | 19:00 🎟 Tickets on RA via the link in our bio 🎶 Premonitory Urges @aurora_engine

A whole week of creativity @cove_park with @crypticglasgow - early morning starts straight to the studio (no lunchboxes or school uniforms… !) much work done. Too many to list but some highlights … Stone skimming with Saba and @vnc.ptk Making music with @banbanbanbanshge beautiful bird sculptures / instruments Long wintry walks and modular synth chat with neighbour and fellow Shaw @shhemusic Long drives and chats with @shankarsaanthakumar with photographing his wonderful sculpture! Food prep and cheese snacking with Alex Smoke 🖤❤️🖤❤️