August 2008
ArtScope
"Harmony in the Age of Noise"
We live in a deaf age, according to sonic thinker and artist Bruce Odland. Sure, we tune into the intentional sounds of ringing cell phones or music playing in our earphones, but we’re deaf to the unintentional sounds that fill the places we pass through each day. (Read preview...) (Entire article)
May 20, 2008
Christian Science Monitor
"A sound artist hears symphonies in ambient noise"
Bruce Odland is an artist whose medium is sound. Amid a culture dominated by the eyes, he's pleading with us to open our ears. He's not a musician in the traditional sense, though his tousled hair and dramatic gestures suggest a certain stage presence. He's a master of the sea of natural and man-made sound – the aural flotsam and jetsam that most of us scarcely pay attention to. (Read more...)
May 18, 2008
Tufts Daily
"Harmony in the age of noise"
Universities are laboratories for community-building where strangers are quickly transformed into classmates and lifelong friends. No sooner have freshmen unpacked their bags and said farewell to their parents than they begin the transfer to a new alma mater or "nourishing mother." From matriculation to Commencement, the language of "family" is continuously invoked (Read more...)
May 9, 2008
Boston Globe
"Hear the city as a symphony: An Interactive exhibit tunes in the sounds of Tufts community"
It could be an oracle: A glowing dial with a lens in the middle blinks with images. It hums in the key of E inside a blue-domed gazebo, which sits atop a temple of learning: Tisch Library, high on the hill that Tufts University occupies here. (Read more...)
April 28, 2008
Medford Transcript & Somerville Journal
"In perfect ‘Harmony:' Collaborative effort at Tufts yields unique sonic art piece"
Day in and day out, our ears are assaulted from all sides by the sounds emanating from those things considered distinctively modern about today’s society. With heaters humming, buildings buzzing, people plodding and the ever-looming sound of distant freeway traffic, many no longer hear a single sound. (Read more...)
April 23, 2008
Boston Herald
"Sounding off on the art of noise: Tufts students, neighbors collaborate"
Do you hear what I hear?
Neighbors of Tufts University will be asking that question, as the sound art installation “Harmony in the Age of Noise” opens today. (Read more...)
April 11, 2008
NPR's Living on Earth
"Our Sound Environment"
We live in a complex sea of sonic information. But what is noise and what is art is in the ear of the listener, according to soundscape composer Bruce Odland... (Listen to more...)
April 2008
Tufts Journal
"Seeing with Our Ears: An interactive sound sculpture, “Harmony in the Age of Noise,” opens on the Tisch Library roof April 23"
Listen: do you hear a hum from your computer or the rattle of your office’s heating system? When you walk across campus, would you be able to tell where you were if your eyes were closed? Would you hear a ventilator system from a nearby building or the click, click, click of heels going up a stairway? (Read more...)
April 2, 2008
The Medford Transcript
"'Sonic art project making waves at Tufts"
In this noisy industrialized world of ours, how much of what your ears pick up are you really hearing? Well, Tufts University anthropology professor David Guss and international composer and artist Bruce Odland are creating an unprecedented sonic art installation atop the university’s Tisch Library that hopes to answer that very question. (Read more...)
March 6, 2008
The Tufts Daily
"'Harmony in the Age of Noise' creates a buzz on the library roof"
To composer and artist Bruce Odland, one of the main creative minds behind Tufts' planned library-roof exhibit, art and sound are tightly entwined. "We are lost in a sea of noise," he said on his official Web site. (Read more...)
March 4, 2008
Tufts Tisch College Active Citizen Newsletter
"Interactive Sonic Art Project Will Build Community"
During the next six weeks, members of the Tufts community and others are invited to help develop a one-of-a-kind interactive sonic art display and, in the process, explore the politics of hearing and seeing. (Read more...)