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Bruce Odland

Bruce Odland

Sonic Thinker · Artist · Composer

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    • Odland & Auinger (O+A)
      Bruce Odland (O) New York + Sam Auinger (A) Berlin, have been working together for over 30 years, developing a Hearing Perspective of the world we live in. They make installations in public space to encourage people to “think with their ears”.
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Press

WNYC Archives: Bruce Odland

WNYC Archives: Bruce Odland

Explore Bruce Odland’s radio presence through New York Public Radion, WNYC… continue reading

Posted on February 24, 2019February 24, 2019Categories Interviews and Podcasts, Press
‘Hamlet’ in Virtual Reality Casts the Viewer in the Play

‘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

Posted on January 25, 2019March 1, 2019Categories Press
Interior Design Innovation

Interior Design Innovation

Podcast: Episode 2: Interview with Bruce Odland

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Format AudioPosted on January 22, 2019February 25, 2019Categories Interviews and Podcasts, Philosophy, Press, Sonic Architecture
Sonic wallpaper from O+A

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

Format AudioPosted on May 16, 2018February 25, 2019Categories Press
Tonic

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

Posted on July 2, 2017February 28, 2019Categories Installation, Odland & Auinger (O+A), Press
Terrell Place, Architect Magazine

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
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Posted on August 14, 2016February 24, 2019Categories Press

A Power Broker’s World Comes Tumbling Down

The New York Times by Stephen Holden, 2014Wallace Shawn turns the title character of Ibsen’s imperious “Master Builder” into a megalomaniacal little creep facing his death and his past.

As both an actor and a playwright, Wallace Shawn, at … continue reading

Posted on July 22, 2014March 1, 2019Categories Press, Theater

Grasses of A Thousand Colors

The New York Times by Ben Brantley, 2013

A Fairy Tale, but Not to Read to Your ChildrenWallace Shawn has written and stars in “Grasses of a Thousand Colors,” a nasty and erotic fairy tale at the Public Theater.… continue reading

Posted on October 29, 2013March 1, 2019Categories Press, Theater

Gwarlingo Interview

Gwarlingo · The Gwarlingo Podcast #2 – Sonic Artist Bruce Odland: Money Makes Noise, A Water Tank Creates Art

Is there a connection between noise and money? Which sounds are healing to us as humans, and which are damaging? And … continue reading

Format AudioPosted on March 22, 2013January 20, 2022Categories Interviews and Podcasts, Philosophy, Press, The TANK
Composing a Symphony of the Streets

Composing a Symphony of the Streets

Wall Street Journal – Steve Dollar

Two musicians combine the noises of the city and a traditional mass for a modern urban soundscape.

Source: Composing a Symphony of the Streets… continue reading

Posted on November 12, 2010May 12, 2019Categories Odland & Auinger (O+A), Press

Sounds of the city: urban noise hits right note

Irish Times

TWO COMPOSERS have found a way to take the discordant “soundscape” of a city and turn it into a form of music. It transforms the buzz of cars, aircraft and clatter of light railways into tones that have … continue reading

Posted on July 6, 2010February 25, 2019Categories Odland & Auinger (O+A), Press

The Wooster Group | North Atlantic

TimeOut New York by Helen Shaw, 2010

It’s easy to get disoriented at the Wooster Group’s current production. Bewildered by the uniforms, GIs doing the hula and the occasional razzle-dazzle song-and-dance number, you might assume you’ve stumbled into South Pacific… continue reading

Posted on March 15, 2010March 1, 2019Categories Press, Theater
The Future Of Noise

The Future Of Noise

CBS News

Most of us are trying to avoid all the noise around us, while some are paying good money for all things loud. To find out what’s next in this sonic revolution, Mo Rocca takes a trip into the … continue reading

Posted on November 8, 2009February 25, 2019Categories Press

Hear the city as a symphony

Boston Globe, by Cate McQuaid

MEDFORD – It could be an oracle: A glowing dial with a lens in the middle blinks with images. It hums in the key of E inside a blue-domed gazebo, which sits atop a temple

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Posted on May 9, 2008February 25, 2019Categories Installation, Press

Wallace Shawn | The Designated Mourner

WNYC | New York Public Radio, Podcasts, Live Streaming Radio, News

At times during the course of human history, when the last of a group, clan or tribe passes, someone would be appointed to publicly weep, remember, and light the … continue reading

Posted on January 13, 2002March 1, 2019Categories Press, Theater
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