Bruce Odland sound artist,composer, sonic observer of the visual culture.
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short bio | resume | O+Awebsite | Press+radio | cd's and cdrom's available |
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"Harmony in the Age of Noise" is 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. Open from April 23-August 10, 2008 Live stream of "Main Drag" Opens at Tufts University Gallery June 5, 2008 Press |
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Requiem for fossil fuels performance from October 19th is now on You Tube |
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Recent Projects
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Hearing Perspective:
Think with Your Ears 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. |
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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. August 18 - 22 EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL 07 Edinburgh, Scotland Herald review |
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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 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. | |
Sound Installations currently running
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"Harmonic Bridge" by O+A in the collection of MASSMoCA, North Adams, Mass. since 1998 under the Highway2 overpass by the parking lot, this real-time resonance installation converts roadnoise into harmony. | |
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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. | |
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"Box 3070" by O+A hasbeen collected by a sound park in Neerpelt, Belgium, and will travel to other cities from there. You tube link. |
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Here's some links.
O+A sound installations of Bruce Odland and Sam Auinger.
CD's and CDroms. some published, some one of a kind.