LINZ.- Each year, the Ars Electronica Festival showcases the work of a featured artist. This year, it’s Sam Auinger (AT/DE). Since the 1980s, the Linz native has been working in computer music, sound design and psychoacoustics, fields in which he has been doing pioneering work. Sam Auinger’s contributions to this year’s Ars Electronica include sound performances at St. Mary’s Cathedral, the Lentos Art Museum and afo architekturforum oberösterreich. What is the sound of the architecture that surrounds us? How do the cities we live and work in sound? And what effect does this have on us? These questions occupy Sam Auinger. The sound artist, sound conceptioneer, composer and professor of experimental sound design at UdK–Berlin University of the Arts is an explorer of the audio cosmos through which we