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Sam Auinger talks about his fascination with acoustics, his projects at Ars Electronica 2011 and why he’s so impressed by the Neuer Dom in Linz. The presentation is german only, but english subtitles are soon to follow.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNTnfMRiAr8

Linz R2 is a real-time resonance work, a sound installation in a public space—the long, open courtyard area adjacent to the Lentos Art Museum’s entrance. Auinger and Odland’s work is an acoustic transformation experience: two resonance pipes perform a real-time transformation of the surrounding urban soundscape

Symposium und Ausstellung Im Rahmen des Ars Electronica Festivals 2011.

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Featured artist Sam Auinger (AT) and his long-time artistic partner Bruce Odland (US) will give a performance-lecture that takes New York as an illustration of the dissonance of visual and acoustic perception.

Our world or, rather, the one we live in (after all, who says it’s definitely ours) can be perceived in many different ways. These modes of perception are, for one thing, highly species-specific—the mole is said to have miserable eyesight; the fly’s is multifaceted; and what the dog picks up with its nose is way beyond the ken of human beings. The sense of touch can play a major role or none at all. As for hearing, there are tremendous differences here too.

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Between dusk and dawn, Sam Auinger, featured artist at Ars Electronica 2011, will impart motion to the spatial volume of Linz’s St. Mary’s Cathedral by means of a sound installation featuring performative elements

“100 000 m³ bewegte luft ” (2011 ) soundinstallation with performance by Sam Auinger
Soundinstallation: Sam Auinger
Soundmaterial: Sam Auinger, Tamtam (Raumfarben)
Performance: Technologies (David Moss, voc. ; Hannes Strobl, e- doublebass; Sam Auinger, electronics) and Wolfgang Kreuzhuber, organs.

Sam Auinger holds a keynote for Kinderuni Steyr, which takes place at AEC. He teaches how to listen, but beware, the keynote is not held in one place but moves around. Find details on the CREATE YOUR WORLD – website.

The Sensing Place/Placing Sense exhibition accompanies and supplements the symposium of the same name being held by afo architekturforum oberösterreich (AT), AIT Austrian Institute of Technology (AT) and Ars Electronica (AT)

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