conjunctions
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
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Floating Shanghai
- a sonic examination of the speed of change in Shanghai´s cityscape
hitra
lost and found lyrics from a floating bridge
angular momentum
rohrism II
Rohrism II
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 I
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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
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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electromagnetic resonant instrument II
Electromagnetic resonant instruments 2
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.
electromagnetic resonant instruments
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
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
sulten kommer mens man spiser
Sulten kommer mens man spiser
sound and video installation, Århus, København 2008
Sulten kommer mens man spiser (Hunger) is an interactive sound and video installation by Annesofie Norn and Signe Lidén with Per Platou as sound designer. The installation was shown in Århus and Copenhagen November and December 2008.
(click to enlarge the photo)
A short presentation in Norwegian follows below:
Fire tilskuere av gangen blir ført inn i et mørkt lokale. På et rundt bord er et festmåltid for fire projesert ovenfra og ned på bordflaten. Publikum setter seg på hver sin plass rundt bordet der det stikker et par armer ut som om det var deres egne. På plassene ligger et par hodetelefoner som de tar på seg. Stemmene i hodetelefonene, samt armene ut fra de besøkendes egne kropper, gir publikum fornemmelsen av å tre inn i en annens kropp og livsverden. Etter et kvarter skifter publikum plass, og i løpet av en time har alle vært ”inne” i alle middagsgjestene.
Installasjonen iscenesetter publikum på en intim måte uten at å være påtrengende. Som aktive tilskuere er de med på mormors 75-års fødselsdag. I tillegg til jubilanten ”inkarnerer” de hennes datter, svigersønn og barnebarn. Hver av personene er spaltet mellom tanker og mer eller mindre abstrakt assosiasjoner, og en ytre deltagelse i festighetene. På denne måten oppstår det humoristiske, overraskende og tankevekkende avstander mellom selskapelighetene og middagsgjestenes indre liv.
„Forestillingen/installationen har været et af de mest vellykkede ”interaktive” projekter, jeg til dato har oplevet nationalt og internationalt. (…) Dette ”at sætte sig ind i et andet menneske” er en sjælden indlevelsesmulighed og overraskelserne kommer specielt, når man oplever de næste tre subjektive versioner af samme fødselsdag. „ Jesper de Neergaard, kunstnerisk leder av Entré Scenen og Junge Hunde Festival DK
Prosjektet mottok i 2007 støtte fra Kunstrådets Scenekunstudvalg (DK), Københavns Kulturfond (DK) og Fond for Lyd og Bilde (NO).
Under: installasjonen vist på Junge Hunde, Århus 2008
alvdal exodus
Alvdal Exodus
Installation, Oslo 2006
Patchwork from two old farms in Alvdal, a small village in the middle of Norway were collected and patched together into two illuminating tens that were placed in different urban landscapes in Oslo during the winter 2006. The patchworks were up till two hundred years old, handed over from generation to generation of woman in the families, extended and repaired, and when a women got married, the patchworks was an important content of the bridal chest.
happiness and spacial survival
happiness and spacial survival
mixed media, Weimar 2006
“spacial survival and happiness”is a collection of works of different media: photo, video, installation and text, with the themes «architecture, ideologies, survival strategies and happiness». The works were made during an exchange semester in Weimar.
happiness and spacial survival II
video, 8 min
Architectural structures are mapped on the walls of a white cube with masking tape and then filmed. The structures are selected from architectural models and urban plans from Breitscheidplatz in Berlin. As the light changes, the different parts of the landscapes vanish and appears.
video stills
happiness and spacial survival III
This is an site specific installation where more abstract architectural structures is mapped up in space.
turning time
turning time
light sculpture, Weimar 2006
“turning time” is an hourglass at the size of a torso. In each of the bulbs there is a cone that starts to brighten when the hourglass is turned. The jet of sand runs down and hit the tip of the cone, spead, and slowly cower the lights. The duration of sand cowering the light and darkens the room is seventy minutes.
The light sculpture was made to the exhibition „8:22 art collective“ curated by Craig Cameron in Weimar 2006.
koko
koko
land art installation, Värmland 2006
You can climb up to the top and listen to my grandpa´s old recordings of singing birds.
The installation was made during a landart workshop with Axel Tostrup in Värmland.
