Sound Works by Odland+Auinger since 1987

	R1 Bergen 30 July-26 September 2010 commissioned by Lydgalleriet A resonace tube placed high on the outside wall of the Bergen Kunsthall collects sounds from the oneway traffic on Lars Hilles Gate, transforming it and playing it back in real-time through a cube speaker placed on the end of the walkway between the Bergen Kunsthall and the Edvard Munch Museum.
	Requiem For Fossil Fuels in San Jose's St Joseph Cathedral September 18th,2010 as part of the 01SJ Biennial he 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. Soprano, Martha Cluver; Mezzo Soprano, Hai-Ting Chinn; Tenor, Geoffrey Silver; Bass, Mark Uhlemann More information.
	Towards a Hearing Perspective O+A gave a keynote talk on 2010, 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.
	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. Commissioned by Ear to the Earth Festival
	Future of Noise "Future of Noise" was broadcast on CBS Sunday Nov, 8th 2009 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
	Requiem for fossil fuels On July 23, 2008 Requiem for fossil fuels opened the Inventionen 08 Festival with a performance in the exquisitely bombed out architecture of Elizabethkirche with the internationally renowned vocal quartet VOXNOVA: Kata Hajnal (soprano); Sabine Neumann (mezzo-soprano); Paul Hörmann (tenor); Nicholas Isherwood (bass)
	Hearing Perspective: Think with Your Ears INSA Art Space Seoul, Korea,2007 Odland and Auinger led a week long workshop with artists and students exploring and mapping the Seoul soundscape in 4-ears spatiality.
	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 "Requiem 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.
	elevated harmonies , 2006,NYC, USA. transforming lower manhattan transportation hub into harmony for "ear to the earth" festival. more
	living harmonies , 2006,Stuttgart, Germany. changing traffic into living overtone series and installing in public space. more
	Vertical Game , 2004,Linz, Austria. O+A create 7 levels of alchemical sound fields from their Alphabet of Sounds in the spiral staircase tower high above the Danube river. Commissioned for the 25th Anniversary of ARS ELECTRONICA festival.
	Requiem for Fossil Fuels ,Berlin,2004, O+A.extract the spiritual form of the Requem Mass from the resonances of New York City and Rotterdam The Dies Irae, for instance, is extracted from a daily commute through Grand Central Terminal. It is played back as an 8 channel holographic sound in Sophienkirche for the Inventionen Festival. more
	Blue Moon , 2004,World Financial Center, NYC. O+A turn harbor soundscape into harmonic music real-time, mixed by the moon and tides. Playback is through 5 blue cement cubes forming an arc across the plaza. Sponsored by Creative Time, World Financial Center Arts and Events, and Battery Park City Authority. May-August 2004. more
	City Music , 2003,Next Big Thing Radio Show, Public Radio International. O+A turn 8 locations of the city into harmonic music in a mobile Van, creating a symphony out of New York CityÕs resonance. 10 minute radio show.
	BOX 30/70 , Ars Electronica Festival, 2002, Linz Austria BOX continues its tour collecting and decoding tragic urban soundscapes. After 7 cities of its 2001 tour, it visits the Ars Electronica Center, with a new "Archive Mix" to counterpoint its real-time sonic transformation of tire noise. O+A monitor within the noise shelter of the container shows live video feed within resonating tube. at present / previous pages
	TONIC for West Hollywood, 2002,SanVincente and Santa Monica Bvld. A 12-foot tuning tube on the SherrifÕs wall collects resonance, tunes the cityscape to the key of F and plays back real-time from 2 cement "Cube" loudspeakers at the bus stop. In a small area of pedestrian LA the emotional landscape is shifted and humanized. Odland w/ Compound Design Collective, Cecile Bouchier and Bill Ballou
	HIVE WIEN , WIEN MODERN festival, Vienna, October 2001. Performance/installation transforms the city noise around the Konzerthause with three tuning tubes, mixes live video to create real-time symphonic harmonized environment. With Rachel De Boer, Markus Binder, Rupert Huber, Hannes Strobl enacting the music of the human hive live. O+A performance more
	POOL , Berlin, 2001. Sounds of U-bahn, cars, people, planes, bicycles at the busy Potsdammer Platz are transformed into a geometric harmonic city soundscape, resonating in an immersive gallery installation. Berlins largest loudspeaker, a 20-meter vibrating ramp, lays Berlin in Bb real-time. Sponsored by HVB Projects O+A more
	BOX 30/70 , 2001- Container project tours European cities, harmonically altering their soundscapes in real-time. With tuning tube, container control room, and "cube" loudspeaker. Sponsored by Siemens Art Projects. O+A box shown at Siemens Headquarters in Spandau more
	HOUSE HEARING HAT , 2000 For "Sound and Architecture" exhibitioncommissioned by Vedute Institute. Reversable aluminum and felt structure allows user to experience psychoacoustics of architecture in small scale wearable sculpture. Odland. HHH, felt side in, aluminum out
	MOTET R , Parochialkirche, Berlin, 1999. Sound sources of S-bahn. roadways, people were transformed real-time. Inner musical voices extracted and played back in cathedral acoustic composition based on early motets. O+A speaker plan in cathedral sponsored by Singhur Galerie. more
	HARMONIC BRIDGE , MASS MoCA, North Adams, 1999-. Permanent sound installation transforms noise of traffic on Highway 2 overpass real-time into harmonic cathedral in key of "C" as gateway to museum campus. Running since 99 O+A Cube speaker under Highway2
	HIVE MUSIC , Miami, March 1998 . Turning Miami Harbor and city traffic into harmonic orchestral electronic music in real time , with video and audio, for Miami Music Conference event. O+A location of tube picking up harbor sounds
	CLOUD CHAMBER , NYC, 1997. Produced by The Kitchen, Ars Electronica, and Open Kulturhaus. Installation and performance transforming city sounds into music with video clues. Telepresence in Linz, NYC and the web. O+A. surveilance scanner above 19th St. and 10th Ave.
	CITY EARS , MAMAC. Nice, Manca Festival. Performance activating architectural soundspace of MAMAC with special directional speakers. If Òarchitecture is frozen musicÓ how can we hear it? Odland and Auinger on the MAMAC Plaza with Planetspeaker 2.0
	BALANCE 1.0 , Sonambiente Festival, Berlin, 1996 Sonic AlchemistÕs Laboratory installed in the cellar of the Akademie der Kunst for its 300th Anniversary. Explorations by visitors hearing multiple perspectives and spaces simultaneously. O+A Planetspeakers 2.0 form separate listening chamber.
	FUNDAMENTAL AIR , Fondation Maeght, St. Paul du Vence, France, 1995. Sound of gargoyle fountain activates a tuned harmonic series played back at strategic overlook of Miro Labyrinth. Odland. Roof of Fondation Maeght with Planet Speaker.
	R3 , SoundArt Festival, Hannover, 1995. Real-Time tuning of subway and street soundsources as industrial digeridu, played over 4 steel "Cube" loudspeakers of O+A's design. Fear Architecture, not Music. Cube speaker
	MAXRES , Ars Electronica Festival, 1995. Humanoid statue in the Linz Railway Station retunes the ambient soundscape controlled and observed remotely via internet. Public vs. Private space issues errupt. O+A simulated view of MAX with cube speaker base, videomonitor chest, and binaural head
	LOST NEIGHBORHOOD Kongresshalle, Berlin, 1993. Tuning tube placed at busstop and entrance generated singing harmonic chord which was played back live from a single planet speaker at the focal point of the cement parabolic roof on the plaza above. For Peter ErskineÕs ÒSecrets of the SunÓ O+A soundwave and bus stop
	MAK , Vienna, 1992 Five-day outdoor installation tuning the surrounding area and architecture in order to signal the reopening of the Museum. O+A
	TRAFFIC MANTRA , Trajan's Forum, Rome, 1992. Single solar powered speaker transforms 6 blocks of ancient landmark, altering its sonic identity. Source sound is resonance inside ancient amphora, activated by sound of modern traffic in real-time. O+A soundbeam activates ancient architecture more
	STADTRAUM , Salzburg, 1991. Resonating the old city of Salzburg to the six cardinal points for the 200th Anniversary of MozartÕs Death. 2000 years of history presented as sonic hologram for 25,000 spectators... w/ guitarist Adrian Belew. O+A 2nd act mock baroque battle of fireworks with Hohen Salzburg in background.
	Garden of Time-Dreaming , ArsElectronica Festival, Castle of Linz, 1990. 9 month long sound cosmology in the gardens of the Castle of Linz, honoring Johannes Keppler and the 400th anniversary of the City of Linz. O+A Cube Loudspeaker overlooking the Danube.
	RIVERWORKS , Ars Electronica Festival, Linz Austria, 1987. Fractal rhythms and melodies of water activate water guitar, harps, cymbals, and are heard from sculpture of speakers . Huckelberry Finn is evoked by fishing technology and contact microphones. Odland, speaker tree and local fisherman