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Sam Auinger - Wind Harp made on site and played with the sea waves and the wind, recording exhibited.
Sam Auinger is a Berlin-based Austrian sound thinker, composer and sound artist. Together with Bruce Odland (US) he founded O+A in 1989. Their central theme is hearing perspective. Since 2000 collaboration with the bassist and composer Hannes Strobl and the urbanist and media artist Dietmar Offenhuber. From 2009 on there is more and more collaboration with his wife the sound artist and composer katrinem in a common artistic artistic research on questions of atmospheric and auditory qualities in our mostly urban urban living environments. Sam Auinger propagates a “thinking with the ears”, as a critical daily practice to understand our role in an endangered planetary environment on all levels, from the the social to the ecological. In addition to his artistic practice, he works with urban planners and architects, gives lectures and workshops.