Hexagram-Concordia Centre for Research-Creation in Media Arts and Technology in collaboration with Oboro
Presents:

Sam Auinger (Berlin)

Biography:
Sam Auinger is a Berlin based composer, sound-artist and sonic thinker. Together with Bruce Odland he founded O+A in 1989. Their central theme is “hearing perspective”. Their work is known for large scale, public space sound installations which transform city noise into harmony in real-time. In 2009, O+A started on the “Sonic Commons” questioning the dominance of the visual culture in our perception of the world. Beside his artistic work Sam Auinger was a guest professor at the University of the Arts in Berlin, running the department of Experimental Sound Design at Master’s Program Sound Studies. He is currently collaborating with city planners and architects, giving lectures and is a frequent participant in international symposiums on the topic of urban planning, architecture, media, the senses and sound, in specific.
samauinger.de
www.o-a.info

Workshop:
“Thinking with your Ears”
Wednesday, October 16, 2013, 4:00-7:00 pm
Hexagram Resource Centre
EV Building, 11.705
Concordia University
1515 St. Catherine Street West
Montreal QC

In this hands-on workshop, internationally renowned sound artist, designer and sonic thinker Sam Auinger challenges our visually dominated worldview. We normally understand thinking as an inner and cognitive occupation with ideas, memories and notions in order to form new knowledge. But thinking can also create a space for the auditive in our visually dominated world. Auinger will take the participants on a sonic journey through areas around the EV building and the Concordia Quartier, demonstrating the way in which the sonic environment shapes our ways of being in the world.
Seats limited for workshop, please RSVP to hexagram.coordinator@concordia.ca