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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
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"HEARING
VIEW, Rheinau, " O+A won a competition to make a permanent
sound installation at the oldest Psychiatric Clinic in Switzerland. They
will create a field of harmonic sound that responds to the sounds of the
surrounding environment, and the Rheinau Library, a collection of peaceful
regional nature sounds from all four seasons which can be activated by the
presence of a listener. |
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"Wally
and Andre Shoot Ibsen" This April I'll be working with film
director Jonathan Demme, Wally Shawn and Andre Gregory filming Wally's adaptation
of the Master Builder. It is a beautiful version with amazing acting, Wally
playing the Masterbuilder, and Andre Directs and plays the old man. I wrote
vocal music which weaves througout the production. . NYTimes
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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.
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"Hans
Richter Documentary"
Bruce is scoring
a new film by award winning director David
Davidson on the life and times of the seminal Dada artist who came to
New York and started America's first film school. As part of this a new
score for "Rhythmus 21" was recorded on the radical instruments
built by the Baschet
Brothers by Bruce, Lin Esser and Annea
Lockwood housed at the Yale School of Drama. |
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"Troilus
and Cressida" Wooster Group is working with Royal Shakespear
company with RSC as the Greeks, and Wooster Group as the Trojans. Bruce
will create a sound score and play the role of Priam, King of Troy. Its
part of the World Shakespeare Festival that goes along with the cultural
Olympics. Performances in Stratford on Avon August 3-18 info
and London. Riverside Studios, August 24-Sept 8. |
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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 and is part of a larger scale
long term study and intervention into the Frankfurt soundscape.
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"SAGA"
is a work for chorus, soloists, hardanger fiddle and organ that traces
the history my people 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. Immigration and forgetting. The project was instigated and commissioned
by my father, Paul. The Libretto is by Mary-Ann Greanier. So far four
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"Sonic
Landscape "
In Nov,2011 Bruce did a residency in Australia with Vic McEwan to create
a new piece derived from the sounds of the Australian outback- constructing
instruments of found objects, making a transmedia journal that details
how our senses respond to and define the elusive term "place".
It took place at The Cad Factory Rural Residency Program, in a lovely
area called Riverina. Here
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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)
A new resonance installation at the Lentos Museum "Linz R2" opens
on 1 Sept. Sam
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Soundcloud produced
a very interesting video. "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 at
the WORLD
FINANCIAL CENTER Winter Garden. November 12th
at 7pm, free.
with
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.
This performance
was part of New Sounds Live, curated by John Schaefer, host and producer
of WNYC Radio’s popular shows New Sounds and Soundcheck. Presented
by Arts World Financial Center.
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 will give 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
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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.
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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.
Ltd. Edition boxed set of signed DVD and 25 ft. scroll is available.
Installation
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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.
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"Elevated
Harmonies" O+A
-the whole range of
fossil fueled madness reduced to harmonic intervals in an installation
at the Elevated Acre, 55 Water St. NYC. For theEar
to the Earth Festival, Oct, 2006. |
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"Living
Harmonies" O+A (bruce odland and sam auinger)
will make an installation which live transforms Stuttgart street sound into
harmonic resonances for the World
New Music Festival there in July, 06 |
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Whitney
Biennial- DTAOT:COMBINE
a 5 channel sound installation is part of the"Dont Trust Anyone over
Thirty" installation by Tony Oursler and Dan Graham, based on the much
talked about puppet rock opera- its on the 2nd floor on the left in the
back room. |
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"Thousand
Years Waiting"
Feb 24-March12 @ PS122,
an extraordinary new play by Chior Miyagawa, new score by Odland, "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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