Sam Auinger

Sam Auinger is a sound artist and composer, currently living and working in Berlin. His work highlights the acoustic qualities of public urban environments.

In 1989 he founded O+A with Bruce Odland.O+A’s work is based on the perspective of hearing, where sound installations in large public spaces alter the city noise in real-time.

In the work Blue Moon, the sound of the tide at the harbour outside the New York World Financial Centre is harmonised with 3 tuning tubes. Speakers were then used to distribute the sound around the plaza. The speakers doubled up as furniture.

The idea of Blue Moon was to retune the environment to make it more musical so that people could connect to the world around them.

Voices, boats, electrical hums, planes, helicopters, and the tide of the water 

“People thanked us for reminding us there were tides.”

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