MY EYES, MY EARS: Sonic Commons + The Politics of the Senses

• Price: Free
• Date: Fri, Mar 06, 2015
• Time: 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
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The Goethe Institute presents a performance on the “Politics of the Senses” and the failure of the “Sonic Commons by O+A (Bruce Odland and Sam Auinger) with post-performance panel discussion led by Dietmar Offenhuber (Northeastern University).

The sonic commons can be defined as any space where people share an acoustic environment and can hear the results of each others activities, both intentional and unintentional. Our eyes and ears are forced to deal with those results. This performance uses 4 Ear (dual binaural) recordings, live re-tuned city sounds, speech and images to decipher the cognitive dissonance of the Boston sound environment.

O+A, Bruce Odland and Sam Auinger, have been observing the urban soundscape and making sound installations in public spaces around the world for more than 20 years. They have recently found a way to share these observations in a performance piece that deals with perception, memory and the failure of the “sonic commons”. This 40 minute performance immerses the audience in an extremely detailed spatial and surreal 4 dimensional audio environment. To this they add fragmentary visual clues playing compositional games with the difference between how our eyes and ears really decode space and how it usually happens in films.

More information on the event website.