Sam Auinger
Sound Arts Visiting Practitioners Series
Sam Auinger born in 1956 Linz who is a sonic thinker, composer towards sound art. His point o f interest is the sonic and auditory as material phenomena that embed information about our shared global interdependence and emotional triggers. The core of his artistic research aims to deepen understanding of acoustic&aural qualities in our urban living environments and surroundings in public spaces. Together with Bruce Odland, he founded O+A in 1989. Their artwork is called “hearing perspective,” and known for large-scale, public space sound installations that transform city noise in real-time.
Can a city sound like symphony?
Blue moon is a sound project which contains several traffic live instruments like helicopters, boats and the howler. He also uses 3 turning tubes installed in the North Cove Harbor to turn the noise into harmony with the tide from the lowest to the highest. The sound is played back through five “cube” loudspeakers arranged in an arc on the plaza, creating a zone of real-time harmonic city sound. As the tides rise and fall the mix of tuning tubes changes key, they are generated by the faces of the moon. It is a very magnificent sound installation because when people sit on the speaker, they have a recall of the sound of the tides. Nature voices and sounds also appear in the busy society.
http://www.o-a.info/bluemoon/views/video.html
In class we had a really interesting course study on exploring on knocking on My Pebble. It is composed as an introduction to the process of consciously exploring our living environments and personal sound spaces with our own ears. Suppose we spend plenty of time on these exercises and experiments more often. In that case, we will develop an ”inner ear” with the ability to anticipate sound characteristics of objects, spaces, and situations‚ thinking with our ear – and to sense their inherent atmospheres in advance. Both allow us to act more according to our needs and create different understandings of our living environments.
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I like Jessica Ellis’ statement. The idea that Sound Arts ‘reaches out to the art world in a new and distinct way’ is quite exciting! It doesn’t taste like stale bread! When we don’t have strong etiquette and formalities in navigating the field we can explore and discover with innocence and freshness, making Sound Arts a powerful force. This too shall pass?
I agree that sound stirs biological roots. It makes me think about the emotional reaction to sounds. Is the reaction from our own personal history, or is there a longer ancestral history involved in our perception of sounds?
I wonder how we can explore the sources of the “thousand feelings in a thousand people’s ears” in a sound project, that listens and amplifies the interior back into the world. Maybe we can sing!