Exhibition Dates: September 29 - November 11, 2007
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 29, 3 - 5 pm
Lecture by the Artist: Saturday, October 27, 4pm

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

The Studio presents “HEARING SPACE: A sound installation with visual clues by Bruce Odland”

Armonk, NY…The Studio: An Alternative Space for Contemporary Art (a not-for-profit arts organization) is pleased to host HEARING SPACE by Bruce Odland. This sound installation will occupy the entire gallery, transforming it into a place of deep listening. This experience will be enhanced by visual clues created by the artist to accompany the sounds. Many of the unusual instruments and devices that were constructed in order to gather the sounds for the project will be on view.

In creating HEARING SPACE, Odland has focused his attention on the Westchester soundscape with its mix of urban, suburban, and natural spaces. He took daily walks along the Hudson River seeking the hidden beauty in the things we drive past everyday unheard, unseen: a frozen field of flowers played like flutes in predawn wind, a pond of ice resonating like an eardrum to the morning rush hour, a harp played by a snow and ice storm, a one stringed fiddle bowed by the Croton river in flood playing an ancient ode-like melody.

“It is the ear that unlocks our relationship with nature, turning it from a flat image into a four dimensional map of who and where we are. When we truly listen deeply, our relationship with nature is forever changed.” Odland

Bruce Odland is a sonic artist and philosopher. Trained as a composer, conductor, and musician, he has worked for more than twenty years as a sound artist, composer and performer. He has created his own projects, and he has also collaborated with other artists in the visual and theatrical arts, including Laurie Anderson, Dan Graham, Tony Oursler, and Peter Sellars. His projects have been realized in Europe, the United States, and Australia. A local example of his sonic work is “Blue Moon,” built for the World Financial Center with Sam Auinger. The chaotic sounds of helicopters, jets, boats, trucks, and people were transformed, in real time, into a harmonic sound, mixed by the moon and the tides. In short, he created a symphony from the sounds of New York City. This past spring, Odland was on tour in Europe as the musical director for the Wooster Group. This autumn, Odland and Auinger will be participating in the second Ear to the Earth Festival, produced by the Electronic Music Foundation. Their “Requiem for Fossil Fuels,” an eight channel installation and performance, will be presented at the historic Judson Memorial Church in Manhattan on October 19th and 20th.

HEARING SPACE has been made possible, in part, by a grant from The David Bermant Foundation. The project was produced, in part, during Create@iEAR, a NYSCA sponsored artist residency program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's iEAR Studios. Additionally, Bruce Odland has received an Arts Alive Artist Grant from the Westchester Arts Council.

The Studio is open to the public on Saturdays and Sundays from 1pm to 5pm and by appointment, Tuesdays through Fridays. The Studio is located at 2 Maryland Avenue in Armonk. The exhibition is free to the public. For directions please call (914) 273-1452 or visit the web site at www.thestudiony-alternative.org.

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