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Requiem for Fossil FeulsOct. 19-20, 2007, 8:30 pmAdmission: brownpapertickets.com/event/21325 o-a.info Judson Memorial Church 55 Washington Square South 888-749-9998  Bruce Odland  Sam Auinger "There come times in life when the passing of great events requires formal acknowledgment to assist in their comprehension. As we face the passing of our fossil fuel dependent way of life, we hope to gain insight by examining the sounds of our culture through the lens of the Requiem Mass." - O+A. "Requiem for Fossil Fuels" is the culmination of 20 years of work by Bruce Odland and Sam Auinger, listening to and intervening in the urban soundscapes of cities around the world. In 2004, Odland and Auinger presented an early version of their "Requiem for Fossil Fuels" at the SophienKirche in Berlin as part of Inventionen Festival. Materials for "Requiem for Fossil Fuels" come from O+A's "alphabet of sounds." This collection of recordings is the result of an ongoing search for a "Hearing Perspective" of the sounds we make as a culture. Each section of "Requiem for Fossil Fuels" uses a location recording and its real-time flow as a cantus firmus. Over this cantus firmus, or baseline song, come soloistic voices of helicopters, jets, traffic, busses, horns, train wheels, footsteps of commuters, sirens: the found "Voices" of a fossil fueled culture organized as music. O+A have constructed this playable digital orchestra of extraordinary sonic voices extracted from cities around the world. Against and sometimes with this "Orchestra of Cities" are human voices of the singers and the text of the Requiem Mass. "Requiem for Fossil Fuels" is presented by Ear to the Earth 2007 and produced by Electronic Music Foundation, and is sponsored by Austrian Cultural Forum NYC, Berliner Künstlerprogramm Des Daad, Land Oberösterreich, This project was commissioned by Harvestworks with funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, Österreichisches Bundesministerium Für Unterricht, Kunst Und Kultur, Ske & Austro Mechana, Stadt Linz.
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