by Soli Pierce and Bruce Odland
Sound installation with performances at Kino Saito, March 8-May 19, 2025
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Sonic Earth Expeditions
Sonic Thinking with Bruce Odland
December 31, 2021
Joining Mary Beth this time is Bruce Odland, a sonic thinker, creator and composer. Bruce creates sound installations in collaboration with Sam Auinger that transform the sounds of cities into music. He’s … continue reading
Wallace Shawn legacy podcasts
Bruce helped Wally reinvent his two most profound plays as podcasts. They have just been released by Gideon Media. You can listen here to Designated Mourner and Grasses of a Thousand Colors.
During the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic … continue reading
Harmonic Gate, O+A, 2020
This Sound Installation by Bruce Odland and Sam Auinger for Europaallee in Zurich opened in September of 2020. Three “soundstone” loudspeakers play back city noise that has been transformed into a soundfield of harmony. It all happens in real-time. Harmonic … continue reading
Detour 360: First Preview
7pm, October 17th, 2019: Museum of Discovery in Fort Collins.
Detour 360 explores the sonic terrain of the great state of Colorado — from Trinidad to the Canyons of the Ancients to Greeley to Red Rocks to all points in
WNYC Archives: Bruce Odland
Reflections on the Sonic Commons
Ear Yoga : Think With Your Ears
Jacob Burns Media Lab
Modern soundscapes often dampen our capacity to truly listen. In this unusual workshop, you’ll re-tune your ears to the primal sense of acute hearing. Participants are encouraged to stretch underused auditory … continue reading
Hamlet 360 “Thy Father’s Ghost”
Bruce Odland created a sound world for Hamlet 360, an experiment in VR theater, for Google and Commonwealth Theater. Director Steve Maler takes the VR medium to a new level, infusing it with Shakespearean content, immersion, and high production standards.… continue reading
‘Hamlet’ in Virtual Reality Casts the Viewer in the Play
New York Times, January 25, 2019
by Elizabeth A. Harris
Hamlet is in a bathtub with water up to his neck delivering “To be, or not to be.” Look to your right and you’ll see his mother, Gertrude, in … continue reading
Interior Design Innovation
Guthrie Theater | Bad News
BAD NEWS! i was there… explores the monumental impact of the Messenger character from classic drama – a theatrical device originated by the Greeks, who unapologetically used theater to ask questions of its citizens. Today, the Messenger is eerily reflected … continue reading
Sonic wallpaper from O+A
in ‘my eyes . . . my ears’, Boston Globe 2015
In his Epistles, the poet Horace decried the constant din of first-century-BC Rome: “Would you have me, amid so great noise both by night and day, try to sing?” … continue reading
Requiem for Fossil Fuel
O+A, Thessaloniki, documenta 14, 2017
O+A performed their Requiem, as part of documenta 14, in the Rotunda of Galerius (300AD), Thessaloniki Greece. The acoustics were perfect.
“Orchestra of City resonances” by Sam Auinger played live. Audience surrounded virtuoso singers: Sarah … continue reading
Harmonic Bridge: 1998-present
In 1997, before MASSMoCA opened, Director Joe Thompson decided to activate the town of North Adams with sound art.
O+A noticed that the town and museum were divided by Highway 2 overpass, and the resulting road noise coming from the … continue reading
Tonic
O+A, West Hollywood
A real time sound installation that transforms street noise into harmonic sounds from the bus stop at the south-east corner of the intersection, creating a psycho-acoustic effect in public space in real time. The sound of traffic … continue reading
Solstice 2017 at The TANK
The TANK Center for Sonic Arts just celebrated Summer Solstice 2017 with concerts, recording sessions, and the inauguration of its outdoor sonic amphitheater. Roomful of Teeth, with special guests Rinde Eckert and Jessica Meyer, performed for an audience of 40 … continue reading
Harmonic Conduit
Harmonic Conduit links two communities in Boston. Northeastern University and Lower Roxbury now connect through sound art in the Ruggles Station.
Odland and Auinger (O+A) tap into the soundscapes of each community, choosing recording locations that highlight economic disparity. The … continue reading
Symphony of Resonances
O+A, Thessaloniki, documenta 14, 2017
Tuning the Ruins played in the ruins of the Palace of Galarius, an emperor who once ruled all of the Roman Empire. Today the ruins sprawl three blocks in between 60s and 70s apartment buildings. … continue reading
Terrell Place, Architect Magazine
| Bruce Odland’s been working with Michael Schneider at ESI design to make an interactive media wall for Terrell Place in Washington, DC. Full Article on Terrell Place, Architectect Magazine August, 2016 |