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Sam Auinger is a sound thinker, composer and sound artist. His artistic research focuses on deepening the understanding of acoustic/auditory qualities in urban living environments. He propagates "thinking with the ears". For him, it is an important everyday practice to understand our role in an endangered planetary climate on all levels, from the social to the ecological. Together with the artist Bruce Odland, he founded O+A in 1989. Their central theme is the auditory perspective. They are known for their permanent sound installations in public spaces and tuning - transformations of sound in real time. Examples: Harmonic Bridge MassMoca (US) since 1998, Sonic Vista Frankfurt (D) since 2011 and at documenta 14 with "Symphony of Resonances" in Thessaloniki (GR) 2017, among others. Bruce Odland, sound thinker, composer, sound artist, began his career as a classically trained composer. His ears led him to spend years recording the fractal melodies and rhythms of nature. His first large-scale sound installation based on these recordings, "Sun Song", took place in Colorado in 1977. In 1981, he became Director of Sound and Music at the Denver Center and was instrumental in developing new ideas for immersive sound design for theater. He is an artist who thinks with his ears. He has lent his sensibility to collaborations with many of his heroes; Laurie Anderson, Peter Sellars, Wally Shawn, the Wooster Group, JoAnne Akalaitis and Andre Gregory. He has done award-winning work in museums, radio, theater, film and digital art. In 1989, Bruce Odland and Sam Auinger founded O+A and created a series of installations that transform the noise of the city into harmony in real time, as a human, place-making gesture. Together they develop a "listening perspective" on the world. He is the founder of the TANK Center for Sonic Arts. |
