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| oscillation series - sonic theories and practices #15 - Sonic Thinking, Resonance and Architecture |
// Talk, Presentation & Sound
// Date: 29th Jan. 2012 (Su), 20h
The 15th session will be dedicated to Sonic Thinking, Resonance and Architecture
with Holger Schulze, Sam Auinger and Bruce Odland
Holger Schulze: The Generativity of the Flesh. Or: How to think sonically?
As the formation of a research field such as sound studies progresses; as the first seminal handbooks and research projects are being conceptualized and published; and as the institutionalization of research in the arts and in the humanities on the auditory and the sonic takes to the next stages – this presentation shall be a reminder not to abandon an epistemological and methodological question that motivated sound studies in its beginning: Is there such a thing as a specific sonic thinking? Are there specific auditory ways of researching and displaying the results of research that transcend the hitherto known and rather logocentric practices of institutionalized, industrialized and commodified research? And, beyond institutionalizig cultural research on sound: In what ways is it necessary to transform the academic dispositives of research and publication to provide and adaequate environment for a deeper and more subtle inquiry into the sonic?
Sam Auinger and Bruce Odland: What do O+A look for in an installation site?
The “frame” for our work is the city itself – all it’s sounds and vibrations: the sources ( all the power being used in the city by its transport, infrastructure,people, ie. the economy.) the “soundbox” (architecture and topology that reflect and resonate these sounds), the rhythm of activity over time (stoplights, rush hours, weekend lulls, seasons, weathers), the history (what old stories color the meaning of the place for the natives?) the usage (shopping? sports? worship? chilling out? sprinting to work?) the acoustics (echoey, diffuse, pleasing, harsh, – is there enough soundspace for human voices or just machines? is speech intelligible? can we hear far? near?)and the “mess-up-factor” (do the eye and ear tell the same story or is there cognitive dissonance – such as the lovely visual art bridge in Minneapolis- suspended over 10 lanes of speeding inerstate traffic- the eye feels pleasure while the ear feels death approach).
Profiles:
Holger Schulze (*1970) is visiting professor in cultural studies at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and associate professor (Privatdozent) for historical anthropology of sound at the Berlin University of the Arts. He is director of the international research network ›Sound in Media Culture: Aspects of a Cultural History of Sound‹ (2010-2013; funded by the German Research Foundation). He was one of the co-founders of the new advanced degree program in ›Sound Studies‹ at the Berlin University of the Arts since 2000. In 2008 he founded the book series ›Sound Studies‹ at transcript Verlag Bielefeld.
Sam Auinger (1956*) is a guest professor at the University of the Arts in Berlin, running the department Experimental Sounddesign at Master’s Program Sound Studies. Together with Bruce Odland he founded O+A in 1989. Their central theme is “hearing perspective”. He is as well a founding member of “stadtmusik” a collaboration between him and Hannes Strobl with the media artist Dietmar Offenhuber. Stadtmusik focus on the aspect of movement in the city, which reinforces a dynamic experience of the urban soundscape: particular sounds emerge through movement, sound and its timbre evolves from material and space.
Bruce Odland (*1952), sonic thinker, composer, and sound artist, is known for his large scale, public space sound installations which transform city noise into harmony, real-time. In 2004 he and Sam Auinger (O+A) altered the harmonic mix of the World Financial Center Plaza using the moon, tides, harmonic tuning tubes, and cement loudspeakers (“Blue Moon”). Together they have changed the sonic character of many public spaces around the world. His many collaborations include work with Laurie Anderson, Dan Graham, Andre Gregory, Wallace Shawn, Peter Sellars, Joanne Akailitis, Robert Woodruff, Tony Oursler, Peter Erskine, and the Wooster Group.
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