Sam Auinger and Bruce Odland (O+A): BERGEN R1 – Resonance Installation.

PLACE: Outside Bergen Kunsthall
VERNISSAGE: July 30 at 1900.
SCREENINGS OF SAM AUINGER VIDEOS AT 2100, introduced by the artist.
PERIOD: July 30 – September 26.

Curated by Carsten Seiffarth.
Since 1989 Sam Auinger  and Bruce Odland( O+A) have been researching the properties of sound in urban spaces. In their installations they react to the soundscape of public spaces with subtle acoustic transformations, thus changing the way a place is perceived.
The artistic method O+A developed to transform urban sounds in realtime, is based on the principle of „resonance“.

The main tool for doing this is a „tuning tube“ placed at a selected spot within the urban sound environment. It is creating an overtone series through sympathetic resonance…. harmonic intervals are emphasized while background noise is suppressed.

Despite their musical transformation, distinctive sounds and noises characteristic of the urban environment remain recognizable – emergency vehicle sirens, the deep throb of trucks, dogs barking and human voices all retain their unmistakable character.

The sound is transmitted to a „cube“ loudspeaker which broadcasts back the transformed sound in realtime into the urban environment. Constructed out of cement, impervious to weather, too heavy to lift, this “cube” is ideal for long term outdoor installations. With it´s downward facing speaker it broadcasts uniformly in all directions and therefore couples with the environment of the site in a unique way.

The „cube“ is placed at a location where it can speak to architecture and social use of that site.

It’s not just the sound; the whole situation is altered and “retuned”, when perceived through a harmonically altered soundscape, all it´s architectural, social, and visual aspects of urban life at site.

Sam Auinger 
is a sound artist, composer and philosopher dealing extensively with the subjects of composition, computer music, psycho acoustics, sound design and society.
In 1989 he and Bruce Odland founded O+A to develop a “Hearing Perspective” of the world we live in.  Their projects include Garten der Zeitraume (Ars Electronica 1990, Linz), Traffic Mantra (at Trajan’s Forum in Rome, 1991), Balance (Sonambiente, Berlin 1996), Box 30/70 (2000-…, Siemens, Berlin), Blue Moon (New Sounds New York, 2004), Requiem for fossil fuels (Ear to the Earth festival, NYC, 2007), “my eyes. . . my ears. . . “ (Ear to the Earth, NYC, 2009).  Permanent Sound installations of O+A can be found in the US and Europe.  
Auinger is also  a founding member of “Stadtmusik”  along with fellow Berlin based composer Hannes Strobl and media artist Dietmar Offenhuber.  Stadtmusik’s multi-media pieces focus on the sonic structures generated by the built environment.  Their work has been shown extensively at international venues.  
Auinger’s body of work has received numerous prizes and awards. In 1997 he was invited to the DAAD Berlin Artist-in-Residence program.  In 2002 he became the youngest artist to receive the Kultur Preis der Stadt Linz. He received the SKE Publicity Preis in 2007.  In 2009 he received the Berlin atelier at Citè International des Arts in Paris and in 2010 he was named as the first “StadtKlangKünstler” Bonn 2010.
Auinger is Visiting Professor at the University of the Arts in Berlin and runs the Department of Experimental Sound Design Master’s Program.

Three new works by Zimoun and Flo Kaufmann will be presented in their first exhibition in Scandinavia.

As part of the Borealis Festival 2010, we present Gerhard Eckel’s piece “Catabolizer”. The piece is a speaker installation which feeds on concerts played in the exhibition space. The sound of the concerts is recorded  and chewed, digested, restructured and redistributed into the speakers as a metabolistic installation.

VENUE: Rom8, Vaskerelven 8
OPENING HOURS: 12-19
VERNISSAGE: March 9 at 1530.

CONCERTS:

March 10 at 1530: David Helbich, ‘Social Piece’
March 12 at 1530: Anders Førisdal and Laurence Crane perform pieces by Clemens Gardenstätter,
Lisa Spalt and Laurence Crane.

Until then, our exhibitions will be in temporary spaces in the city centre and our offices will be at USF Verftet.
We will have no regular store during the construction period.

We are happy to host the PIKSEL09 festival exhibition with works by Ben Woodeson, Angie Atmadjaja, gijs gieskes, Carlos Tricas, Wolfgang Spahn, Thomas Gerwin, Ricardo Oliveira Nascimento, Ebru Kurbak, Fabiana Shizue, Dream Addictive, Carmen González, Leslie García, Arnfinn Killingtveit.

OPENING: THURSDAY 19th at 1800.

Hva skjer med liveuttrykk og improvisasjon når det må forholde seg til en gallerikontekst?
Hva tilføres når man transkriberer eller transformerer linjære, stedsspesifikke forløp til en individuell opplevelsesflate?
Hordan forholder en scenemusiker seg til installative prosesser?

Lydgalleriet utfordret stjernefiolinist og improvisatør Victoria Johnson med disse spørsmålene i fjor høst. I mellomtiden har dialogen gått frem og tilbake og vi er glade for å nå kunne vise resultatet av denne prosessen i form av en soloutstilling over tre etasjer. I Lydgalleriet vises 4 nye installasjoner, hvor to bygger videre på tidligere arbeider (Victoria teller, Elektra) og to er helt nye (Apollo, Atlas). Johnson har arbeidet frem et uttrykk som tar utgangspunkt i hennes eget instrument og reflekterer over sin klang, sin rolle og sine omgivelser.

Fiolinklangen er det bærende lydlige elementet i alle installasjonene, om enn forvrengt og fremmedgjort. Johnson viser i installasjonene sin evne til samarbeid, i den grad at alle fire arbeidene kan leses både i video- og musikk-kontekst. Til dette har hun fått med seg noen av de beste innen sine felt, Knut Vaage, Peter Tornquist, og Ellen Røed.

Vi er usannsynlig stolte av å kunne presentere to av de viktigste kunstnerne innen apparat-kunst i Norge for første gang. Kurator Carsten Seiffarth fra vårt søstergalleri i Berlin, Singuhr Hörgallerie, har klart å overbevise de meritterte kunstnerne om at Lydgalleriet kan være vertskap for deres arbeider. Vi er ydmyke over denne tilliten og utrolig glade for å kunne vise frem denne utstillingen til vårt publikum. Det er snakk om automata, elektronikk og dypkodet logikk, funnede objekter og tilfeldighetsmagi. Nydelig utførte objekter og nøye planlagt randomprosesser i ett og samme arbeide – en sjelden kombinasjon.

Martin Riches er utdannet arkitekt og jobbet som det i ti år før han laget sin første elektronisk styrte musikkmaskine (The Flute Player) i 1979 Han har siden laget en mengde av dem. Den mest kjente er kanskje Talking Machine (1990), som vises i Lydgalleriets reverberante skrårom. I tillegg har vi fått vise frem den magiske og underlige Interactive Field.

Erwin Stache er komponist og lydkunstner fra Leipzig, som, i tillegg til installasjoner og komposisjoner, lager små, selvspillende esker som publikum kan leke med. Han vil også holde konsert med sine medbrakte spesialbygde instrumenter. På Lydgalleriets vinduer kan publikum selv spille på hans nye, interaktive arbeide.

Velkommen!

Ta med badetøy og legg dere i bassenget for å oppleve undervannskonsert med *Maia Urstad, Espen Sommer Eide og Magnar Åm*, i tillegg til lydinstallasjoner av Hildegard Westerkamp, Sam Salem, Michael McLoughlin, Robin Edwards, Annie Goh, Eric De Luca, Slavek Kwi og Mark Vernon.

WET SOUNDS er verdens eneste undervanns-lydgalleri og er for tiden på turné i Norden. I Bergen innstallerer de sine undervannshøyttalere i Sentralbadet og presenterer lyd i perioden 19-22 tirsdag 15. september.

Sound travels 4 times quicker in water than in air, due to the water’s density, it is perceived not only by the ears but also by the bones and the body. The sensation is similar to a floatation tank effect. The actvity promotes relaxation, listening, openness to sound art and enhanced audio perception.

People hard of hearing are especially invited to attend to hear sound textures they have never heard before, clearly and detailed, underwater.

The 2009 sound gallery includes work by the following artists: Hildegard Westerkamp, Sam Salem, Michael McLoughlin, Robin Edwards, Annie Goh, Eric De Luca, Slavek Kwi, Mark Vernon.

The collage will also include work from last year’s gallery including John Wynne, Tomoko Sauvage, Spax, La Horrox, Marcus Jones and Paul Rudy.

“It’s a bizarre experience, a bit otherworldly….The sounds are pulsating through the water at speed…With my whole body immersed, it feels as if they’re hitting every limb. It’s not like listening to music in the bath, with your head under the water: there the music gets distorted. What I’m listening to is razor sharp. It’s astonishingly immediate, inescapable, and faintly perplexing.” 
The Guardian

Gå til Wet Sounds hjemmesider for mer informasjon og masse lyder og videoer.

Christian Marclay, Flo Kaufmann, Janek Schaefer and Otomo Yoshihide.

Opening reception: Friday August 28th at 1900.
Concert with Flo Kaufmann at 2000.

Concert with Janek Schaefer and Mick Barr Saturday September 12th at 2100