Conjunctions

Conjunctions consist of two works made for the exhibition 17. m.o.h at Bergen Kjøtt May 2011.

Conjunctions I is an audio-guide for the exhibition attempting to point out alternative trajectories of perceptions of the space that the MA1 student´s artworks inhabit. Two of the 7 tracks are hearable here: 01 (introducing track) and here: 05 (where the visitor is lead up a staircase to a place with a view over the exhibition from above)

Conjunctions II (panorama) consist to four sculptural boxes of wood and mirror amplifying an effect which is already there in the huge windows the exhibition hall.

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Floating Shanghai

- a sonic examination of the speed of change in Shanghai´s cityscape

lost and found lyrics from a floating bridge 

The video and sound work rohrism II is the second part of a work about the Gasometer Schöneberg. The industrial area around the great gas holder from 1910 is the planned location for the European Energy Forum (Euref), an european-russian “Think Tank” for science, the economy and politics on energy issues. Lack of investors as well as public activism trying to prevent “a new Potsdamer Platz” built on the listed heritage has put sticks in the wheels for the realization of the visionary ideas for the area. Rohrism is an auditive excavation in the space between what was and what is yet to come.

As for the audiowork rohrism, the sound is recorded from the inside of pipes in the gasometer. The “pipe-flutes” in various sizes and from different material filters the surrounding; passing trains, cars and airplanes, the renovation of a building and singing birds. The video is shot from inside the rusty gas holder where a transparent, plastic events-tent is built in the middle, as the first step towards it´s transformation.

HD video, 7 min

sound from rohrism II:

rohrismII , 7 min

video stills from rohrism II:

Rohrism

sound installation, München/Berlin 2009

“Rohrism” is an ode to the Gasometer Schöneberg in Berlin, an industrial area around the great gas holder from 1910, awaiting its destiny. The Gasometer Schöneberg is the planned location for the European Energy Forum (Euref), an european-russian “Think Tank” for science, the economy and politics on energy issues. Lack of investors as well as public activism trying to prevent “a new Potsdamer Platz” built on the listed heritage has put sticks in the wheels for the realization of the visionary ideas for the area. Rohrism is an auditive excavation in the space between what was and what is yet to come.

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Pipes are laying all over the site, both old, degraded and new ones, stored for an uncertain future. They are the compositional core of the work. The surroundings are filtered through the pipes which are recorded using stereo omnidirectional microphones on a rainy day. Little by little, the resonance of the pipes themselves as well as other metal object takes over -hidden movements trigged by a car-radio amplifier with a coil and a contact mic.

rohrism: 08.51 min (please listen to it with headphones)

over: from the exhibition: blowup, 2009, Munich

*1: “Amplifiers at Bolling Field, 1921. National Photo Co”

*2: http://www.euref.de/en/location/historische-aufnahmen/

odonata feed drones, the concert set up from La Société de Curiousités, Paris.

odonata feed drones is an improvised sound performances that explores of the hidden sounds in casual objects using home-built electromagnetic resonators, analog and modified electronic and computer based interfaces in different combinations.

The concert at La Societé de Curiosités ( http://instantnet.wordpress.com/ ) was organized by PNEK ( http://www.pnek.org/). Merci.

Two bloggcritics from the concert:

http://counterfnord.wordpress.com/2010/02/28/february-24th-2010-signe-liden/ (english)

http://www.etherreal.com/spip.php?article3530 (french)

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Set II, La Societé de Curiosités odanatafeedsdrones , 16 min (this recordings has unfortunately some clicks and disturbance, sorry!)

Set I (“acustick”, La sosieté de Curiosités odanata , 17 min

From Musik im Gasometer, Berlin: gasometergig , 12 min

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http://vimeo.com/9906118

As I constantly search for objects in my surroundings with great resonating potential, my collection of beloved trash grows… A gigantic washing drum, a blueberry-plucking-equipment, some old cake forms and a perforated metal trash bin are among my favorite objects. Lately, I customized some of them for live-performances.  underneath, you can listen to different recordings, both from performance settings (Odonata feed Drones and Hollaidén) and from the research of the hidden sound in the found objects (bærplukker and ristpluss).

Washing drum, the blueberry plucking equipment and trash bin in different amplification constellations

Testing Testing:

In “ristpluss” I´ve connected a chassis to tha radio amplifier output (instead of the coil) and a contact mic in the input and testing it out with a grill, my violin and voice:

ristpluss , 6 min

Here are two recordings exploring the sound of a “bærplukker” an equipment to pluck berries, the “bærplukker rå”: 3.12 min is one raw recording from inside it, and the “bærplukker”: 3.33 min is a small composition where I tried to harmonize it with a resonated trash can.

bærplukker_rå

bærplukker1

During the summer 2009 I spend a month on a farm in Alvdal, Norway, collecting old objects and scrap metal and building electromagnetic instrument out of it. Some months earlier I attended a workshop by Dan Wilson and Chris Weaver, organized by Natalie Borrisova at the aa-vv.org ( http:/aa-vv.org ) where I had learned how to build and use the amplifier with a magnetized coil and microphone to resonant metal objects.

alvdal : 5.28 min

tempo passé

sound performance, Copenhagen 2009

Tempo passé is a sound sculpture build up by singing, lightening scrap metal. A room at 15 m2 is filled with found objects turned into sound-creating structures and painted with fluorescent paint. The sound is trigged by electromagnetic resonators and played on by two neon creatures (Annesofie Norn and me). Tenpo passé is a piece by Annesofie Norn and Signe Lidén that was shown at performance festival Risk:Reclaim:Entertain in Copenhagen.

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2_tempopasse , 2 min