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BRUCE ODLAND |
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SOUND
ARTIST, COMPOSER, SONIC THINKER |
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On Christmas Day 2016, CBS Sunday Morning
broadcast its story about The TANK Center for Sonic Arts,
"Reverberations: A water tank’s sonic splendors". You can watch
the 5 minute segment here.
We are going into our second season open to the public and are starting
to ask for your projects soon. Visit the TANK Center for Sonic Arts
webpage here. |
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Harmonic Conduit by O+A will
sonically link two communities, Northeastern University and Roxbury
with a new sound installation in Boston's Ruggles Station. The asymetry
of power between the communities can be heard in the soundscapes O+A
will tap to create a real-time harmony between the two.
It opens March 8th, 2017 as part of the Isabella Stewart Gardner
Museum's exhibition, "Listen Hear: The Art of Sound", with funding by
the Goethe Institut, Boston.
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I've
been working with Michael Schneider at ESI design to make an
interactive media wall for Terrell Place in Washington, DC. The
media environment changes with time and sensor data from the
inhabitants who'se motion through these hallways shapes the ambient
soundscape, derived from musical references in Mary Church Terrell's
wonderful autobiography, "A Colored Woman in a White World". Architect
Magazine vimeo
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The TANK Center for Sonic Arts
now has its certificate of occupancy. We had an amazing open
house in Rangely in September, and we will have our Grand Opening in
the spring of 2016. We've got a road, power, parking, a control
room, a deck, ventilation, a new door large enough for a Hammond
B3. Check out the TANKSOUNDS
website. Soon we will be taking proposals.
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O+A made a trip
to HARMONIC BRIDGE at MASSMoCA and made this audio video documentation.
The installation has now been transforming road noise into harmony for
17 years. Here we take you on a tour from the cars to the
resonating tubes, and down to the cube loudspeakers. Noise into
music.
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"SAGA"
is an Oratorio for chorus, soloists, hardanger fiddle and organ
that traces the history my DNA from the earliest written words of the
Norse poetic Edda and the People born of Ice and Fire, to the flat
plains of South Dakota. The project was instigated and commissioned by
my father, Paul. The Libretto is by Mary-Ann Greanier. The
amazing Hai
Ting Chin will be the mezzo soloist.
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"Harmonic Bridge"
,O+A, has been beautifully restored at MASSMoCA
after running for 16 years. It is now online, streaming 24x7 with a
live feed from MASSMoCA. Live Webcam. It
is located just outside of the parking lot for the museum, under the
Highway 2 Bypass Viaduct in North Adams, MA. video... |
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RECENT
AND PAST PROJECTS
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The PNC
Beacon, opened October 1st,
2015, in downtown Pittsburgh in the Lobby of the new PNC Tower.
The smart skyscraper sensors and data system provide the mix
information for data driven light displays and soundscapes responding
to weather, energy usage, and all the elements that make this brilliant
building so Green. ESI Design invited Bruce to create the sound
world
and workings for this futuristic and entirely useful sculpture. |
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"Quiet is the New Loud" a
new work by O+A for the Brugges
Triennale,
May 20- Oct 18, 2015. Lighter than air loudspeakers
accompanied participants along "songlines" of pristine Mideval
architectural
spaces, emitting special signals at GPS coordinates awakening the
frozen music of the architecture, and making perceivable the special
quality of Brugge's exceptional quietude. Focus TV |
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O+A began their "School of
Cultural Sound" with a series of workshops and lectures in Boston, from
October 1-15. The Goethe Society, Harvard Graduate School of
Design, Northeastern University, MIT, the Gardner Museum, and
Massachusets Bay Transit Authority will participate. O+A's topic
will be "The
Sonic Commons" and strategies to include the sense of hearing
in urban design and architecture.
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"Fast Forward",
for the opening of the new Whitney Museum was a 5 channel
sonic spatial narrative compressing three centuries of
infrastructural history of Manhattan and its people into a 77 seconds
burst. Created by Bruce Odland, with video by Chris Kondek, for
the Wooster Groups ironic ribbon cutting ceremony. |
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"Cry
Trojans", Wooster Group's
version of Shakespeare's Troilus and Cresida played at the Singapore
International Festival of the Arts, September 18-21 2014. Bruce did the
soundscore and music. It toured to Brussels May, 2014. |
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| "Space is Not the Place" ,
by O+A, was premiered at festival
bonnhoeren 2014. This new performance investigates the role of
hearing in reclaiming a sense of “place” in this ever- accelerating
world. The newly commissioned lecture/ performance extends their
long-term artistic research towards a “hearing perspective” with
elements of both humor and tragedy. |
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| "SAVE THE TANK"
Kickstarter was as a success! Thank you all. 751 people from 18
countries joined together, 10,000 plays of TANK CHANNEL songs listened
to in 83 countries. We will fix the TANK up this summer and let you
know how you can visit through our .website.
In the mean-time you can listen to our proto-type TANK CHANNEL. |
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"HEARING
VIEW, Rheinau" O+A is now open at the oldest Psychiatric
Clinic in Switzerland. The installation creates a field of harmonic
sound that responds to the sounds of the surrounding environment, and
when activated by the presence of a listener releases sounds from the
Rheinau Library, a collection of peaceful regional nature sounds from
all four seasons recorded by O+A. (more)
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One of my first commissions, "The
Sky is Whole and Clear", ca. 1975 was an antiphonal
choral work for children's voices based on texts by Lao Tsu. It was
performed again in Denver by the marvelous Colorado Children's Chorale
in March of 2014.
(Listen)
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Hans Richter
Documentary by David Davidson,
(Score by Bruce Odland) on the life and times of the seminal Dada
artist had its New York premiere Feb 25th, 2:30 pm, Bruno Walter
Auditorium at Lincoln Center for Performing Arts. It has been included
in major Richter exhibitions at LACMA and the Pompideu Center.
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"Grasses of a Thousand Colors"
Wallace Shawn's most recent play, directed by Andre
Gregory ran at the Public Theatre October 7th through November 24,
2013. Music and Sound by Bruce Odland. Tickets,
NYTimes
Review |
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"urban space-urban sound" O+A, April 30 5-10pm.
For the opening concert of the ACHT BRÜCKE/ Music
für Köln festival, Bruce Odland and Sam Auinger resonated the empty
subway tunnels beneath Köln with real-time retuned sounds gathered from
the city above. The architecture of the urban infrastructure became the
concert acoustic for the sounds that make a city pulse. With Hannes
Ströbl. Curated by Carsten Seifarth. Press. |
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"HEARING SPACE" Bruce's
audio visual love song to the Hudson River Valley will opened Jan 17th at
the new ArtsWestchester galleries, White Plains, NY . This
5-channel audio installation with video clues contains the most
intimate nature recordings Bruce has ever made and a 50 foot scroll of
the year long process of creation. It was previously presented by
Peekskill Projects of the HVCCA in 2013 <pictures and videos> |
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2012 Prix Ars Electronica, Digital Music and Sound
Art, Honorable Mention
was won by "Sonic Vista" by O+A. This live real-time transform of the
city soundscape into a harmonic observation area on a bridge across the
Main River in Frankfurt Germany was commissioned by the Greenbelt of
the City of Frankfurt for their 20th Anniversary. (Link to Ars
Electronica) |
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"Song of Survival" is for all the brave
people who are really living it, Occupying Public Space, Occupying
their Lives, their Jobs, their Art. The song is played on an orchestra
of instruments I built in the outback of Australia, and is inspired by
that landscape and people. Video.
- Blog.
- Soundcloud. |
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"Troilus and Cressida"
Wooster
Group played the Trojans and Royal Shakespeare Company playde the
Greeks in Shakespeare's love-crossed Trojan War mashup. Bruce
played a live sound-score and the role of Priam, King of Troy. It was
part of the World
Shakespeare Festival and Olympic Arts, London 2012. Performances
took place in Stratford on Avon at the Swan Theatre, and London's
Riverside Studios. (the
video blog) |
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"Sonic Vista"
a new resonance installation by O+A links the north and south portions
of Frankfurt's Greenbelt for its 20th Anniversary.The whole city can be
heard from this sonic observation point on the bridge at the center of
the Main river crossing. It opened October 2, 2011. In 2012, O+A
received an PRIX Ars Electronica, honorable mention for this work. (video).
(pictures) (soundcloud) |
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"
my eyes. . . my ears. . . " O+A's take on the politics of
the senses will be performed at this years Ars Electronica Festival
(Sept 3rd 6pm, LENTOS, Linz Austria) Sam
Auinger was the featured artist of the Ars Electronica 2011. |
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Soundcloud
produced a very interesting video with sound artists including Bruce
Odland, Moby....... "We love sound. Hear from sound experts and friends
of SoundCloud why sound is so important to the way we connect with the
world." (video link) (Bruce's Soundcloud
link) |
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"THE GREEN ".
Bruce was invited by Laurie Anderson to co-direct an extensive sound
park at the site of a new Frank
Gehry building on the Novartis Campus in Basel Switzerland. It's
official opening will be July 7th 2011, with new musical programming by
Laurie and Bruce. This 25 channel installation uses ephemeral sounds to
alter the sonic identity of Novartis' Campus main plaza. |
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John Schaefer's broadcast "Requiem
for fossil fuels" by O+A on his
NEW SOUNDS program on WNYC
93.9 FM. Recorded during a live performance at the World
Financial Center November 12, 2010 with Martha Cluver-soprano, Hai-Ting
Chinn-mezzo soprano, Geoffrey Silver- tenor, Mark Uhlemann-bass
Wall St. Journal Article. Listen to the
broadcast. |
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O+A's Requiem for fossil fuels
performed live at the WORLD
FINANCIAL CENTER Winter Garden. November
12, 2010. Hai-Ting Chinn, mezzo; Martha Cluver, soprano; Geoffrey
Silver, Tenor; Mark Uhlemann, Bass; Sam Auinger playing an 8-channel
orchestra of cities - Bruce Odland conducting. Sponsored by New Sounds
Live, curated by WNYC's John Schaeffer. Video.
Wall St. Journal Article.
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O+A performed
Requiem for fossil fuels in San
Jose's St Joseph Cathedral September 18th,2010 as part of the 01SJ
Biennial. The performance consists of an 8 channel "orchestra" of
resonances extracted from cities around the world, played live by O+A,
and their new setting of the Requiem text for four virtuosic singers. More information. |
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O+A gave a keynote talk on July 7th to the Euroscience Open
Forum (ESOF)in Turin Italy "Towards a Hearing
Perspective" introducing their work to an international audience
of scientists and students and encouraging ongoing investigation of why
our world has come to sound the way it does. |
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"Phyllis
and Harold" by Cindy Kleine,chronicles the filmmaker's
parents’ disastrous 59 year marriage and addresses the effects of
secrecy on the family. Bruce wrote the music. It was held over for 4
weeks at LAEMMLE'S MUSIC HALL in Beverly Hills and LAEMMLE'S FALLBROOK
in Encino after being held over 3 weeks in New York at Cinema Village. |
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"North Atlantic" Bruce joins the Wooster
Group in remounting its Cold War Classic. It will be at the
Barishikov Art Center, 450 West 37th Streetin New York City , March 10-
April 25, 2010 Tickets |
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"Future
of Noise" was broadcast on CBS Sunday Nov, 8th with Mo Rocca
interviewing O+A. We were in process of gathering materials for our new
performance piece "my eyes. . . my ears. . . " Why do we live in a
culture where the highest art (Moma Sculpture garden) sounds like any
taxi stand? watch |
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"my
eyes. . . my ears. . . " A new performance piece by
O+A explores perception, memory and the failure of the 'sonic commons'.
Premiered at the Ear to the Earth Festival in NYC October 2009, and was
presented April 7,2010 in Montreal April 7th, 2010 sponsored by IRHA, Concordia
University, and McGill University.
Commissioned by Ear to the Earth
Festival
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La
Didone, performed by the Wooster Group, Musical Direction and Sound
Design by Bruce Odland, was at REDCAT
in Los Angeles from June 11-2. It is really a treat for the senses.
New York Times Review. LA Times "I
heartily recommend it to all fearless theatergoers as part of their
annual neural-pathway tuneup."
"Opera
but not as we know it" review in the Herald. Variety
Review.
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"Grasses of a Thousand Colors", Wally
Shawn's new play will premier at the Royal
Court, London, May 12- June 13, 09. Directed by Andre Gregory,
Music and Sound by Bruce Odland. |
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"Harmony in the Age of Noise", 2008,was a
cross disciplinary examination of the politics of hearing and seeing
using the Tufts University Campus as a living psychoacoustic map.
Anthropologist David Guss teams up with Bruce Odland to generate a
campus and community wide discourse which will culminate in a sonic
intervention on top of the Tisch Library that allows visitors to
explore the politics of their senses. With sculptor Mark McNamara and
new media artist Michael Luck Schneider. Press and Reviews. |
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INSA
Art Space Seoul, Korea,2007
Hearing Perspective: Think with Your Ears
O+A (Sam Auinger & Bruce Odland)
December 10 - 15. 2007
Odland and Auinger led a week long workshop with artists and
students exploring and mapping the Seoul soundscape.
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"Hearing Space" five channel sound environment with visual clues at THE STUDIO in
Armonk NY, Sept 29- Nov 11 2007. Listening deeply to the world in which
we live and finding beauty, music and information in ice, water, wind,
weather. A five channel surround DVD with center channel of video which
alters the normal ratio's of senses in this medium, foregrounding the
ears.
Installation Photos ,<1s > ,<2> , <3> , <4>, <5> ,<6>
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Requiem for fossil
fuels by O+A
at Judson Memorial Church, NYC Oct 19-20, 2007. Presented by EMF.
"We now face the passing of our
way of life dependent on fossil fuels, and hope to gain insight by
examining the sounds of our culture through the lens of the "Requeim
Mass".
Performed live by O+A on an
8-channel "Orchestra of Cities" with Martha Cluver-soprano, Hai Ting
Chinn- mezzo soprano, John Young-tenor, Joshua South-bass. NY
Times article.
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"La Didone" an early Venetian Opera (Cavali 1641), with the
Wooster Group. I'm the anti- maestro, and we are trying to include both
the 17th and 21st centuries simultaneously. It has been seen at
festivals in Brussels, Rotterdam, EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL
FESTIVAL 07 Edinburgh, Scotland Herald
review, Luxemburg Festival
. It will come to New York and Los Angeles in 2009.
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"The Fever"
Wally Shawn is performing his brilliant monologue at The Acorn Theatre,
till March 3rd 2007. I made the sonic space which is like being in
Wallys Brain, and I highly reccomend going for both personal and
political reasons. |
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"Good
Vibrations" by Bruce Odland and Michael
Luck Schneider, for MCA Bella International Artist in Residence
Project, at the Museum of Contemporary
Art. Sidney, Australia. We used a period 60's trailer to make a mobile
installation about perception and memory. We went to 6 schools around
Sydney and worked with groups of students with disabilities, who loaded
the caravan's memory with images and sounds to be remixed with touch. Here's the blogsite. |
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"Elevated
Harmonies" O+A
-the whole range of fossil fueled madness that drives the economy was
reduced to harmonic intervals in an installation at the Elevated Acre,
55 Water St. NYC. For the Ear
to the Earth Festival, Oct, 2006.
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"Living Harmonies" O+A (bruce odland and sam auinger) created an
installation reducing the street sounds
of the German "Motor City", Stuttgart,
into harmonic resonances for the World New Music
Festival
in July 2006. German car executives, sharing the plaza, dropped
by our tuning process to find out why we just now made the cars
louder. "But that was the sound of us turning our installation
OFF."
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Whitney Biennial- DTAOT:COMBINE
A 5-channel sound installation by Bruce was part of the installation by
Tony Oursler and Dan Graham, with live music by the punk duo,
Japanther. It was based on the much talked about puppet rock opera "Dont Trust Anyone over Thirty" which premiered at Miami Art
Basil, 2004, and went on to tour Berlin, Vienna, and the Walker
Art Center.
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"Thousand
Years Waiting" Feb 24-March12 @ PS122,
an extraordinary new play by Chior Miyagawa, with an original score by
BruceOdland, "Time Tunnels", puts ancient instruents in the lens of
modern technology. |
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"Phantom Canyon" an exquisite 10 min animation by Stacey Steers showed
at New Directors/New Films at MOMA and Lincoln Center, April 1-2. This
is Stacey and Bruce's third film together. It will be at the Sundance
Festival January 2007. |
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"Bone Songs " Andre
Gregory's poetic exploration of his wife Chiquita's death from cancer
was performed at the 92nd St. Y May 24th, and I made the aural and
musical environment live. |
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PERMANENT INSTALLATIONS TO VISIT:
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"Sonic
Vista"
a resonance installation by O+A links the north and south portions of
Frankfurt's Greenbelt for its 20th Anniversary.The whole city can be
heard from this sonic observation point on the bridge at the center of
the Main river crossing. It opened October 2, 2011 and is part of a
larger scale long term study and intervention into the Frankfurt
soundscape (pictures) |
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Harmonic
Bridge" by O+A in the collection of
MASSMoCA, North Adams, Mass. since 1998 under the Highway 2 overpass by
the parking lot, this real-time resonance installation converts
roadnoise into harmony. video
documentation
Live Webcam. |
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Tonic" in the collection of the City of West Hollywood,
California. The SE corner of Santa Monica Bvld, and San Vincente.
Operates 24 hours a day. |