Field Modulations, Oxford, 2018 Fabric, transducers, electronics, iron ore, copper wire, tin box, magnets, field recordings The exhibition is starting point of Signe Lidén´s residency at St John’s College, University of Oxford An acoustic canvas spans the gallery space. A piece of iron ore, turned into a speaker coil, is sounding from beneath. Resonances from…
ELAPSES, sound installation, 24 min, the Arctic Pyramid at SALT, OSLO July-December 2017 First version of this work was shown at IL SUONO IN MOSTRA, UDINE, ITALY, 03.07.2017-11.07.2017. A conversation on ELAPSES by Signe Lidén for the Arctic Pyramid in SALT Shortly after the seed vault opened in 2008, the artist Signe Lidén was…
Vertical Studies: Acoustic Shadows and Boundary Reflections II by Espen Sommer Eide and Signe Lidén at Borealis Festival 2017, Fjell Festning, Norway Fjell festning, 11 March 2017: The cannon well at the fortress from WWII, a 15m high circular space with great acoustic properties, was used as a model for our vertical studies. Most of the sounds we worked with…
Vertical Studies: Acoustic Shadows and Boundary Reflections I by Espen Sommer Eide and Signe Lidén at Sonic Acts Festival 2017, Sint Jansklooster water tower, Netherlands Sound movement through the atmosphere is affected by wind profile, open landscape and winter temperatures that can bend the wave front, causing sounds to be heard where they normally would not, or vice versa,…
Vertical Studies: Altitude and History by Espen Sommer Eide and Signe Lidén, Nikel, Russia The first iteration of Vertical Studies, the performance Altitude and History (2016) was staged in the hills above Nikel, Russia, close to the border to Norway, as part of the Dark Ecology journey. Leading the audience on a performative field trip, they delved into connections…
Wave Forms and Tunnel Visions III: is a series of sound essays based on the interviews and recordings executed during a residency in Cagliari, Sardinia in 2015. Robert Revisited is the first work in the serie and is created for the Drive In Sound Art project. Wave Forms and Tunnel Visions III: Robert Revisited –…
Wave Forms and Tunnel Visions I: Subterranean Cagliari , site specific performance, Cagliari, Sardinia, October 2015, field recordings, recorded interviews, 8 channel piece for transducers, mobile sculptural listening-walls The work is the result of a five week long residency exploring four subterranean places in Cagliari, Sardinia: Cripta de Santa Restituta, the Roman Cistern in the Botanical Garden,…
installation, 2015 iron meteorite, metal, glass, wood, electronics The work was made for VOLT´s Imagining Commons In 1903, when Kristian Birkeland wanted to test his theories of how the Aurora Borealis arises, he built a small magnetic model of the Earth by winding copper wire in layers around an iron core. He hung this ‘terrella’…
glimmer (interferens), 2014 mica (interference) sound installation slate with mica, mechanics, motor, sounding trunk, stain, metal, electronics, transducer, field recordings (electro magnetic noise recorded with a pick-up coil played through the trunk) The installation was made for the group exhibition Game og Life II, Kristiansand Kunsthall (Heidegger, Die Technik und die Kehre, 1962, with Hannah Arendt’s notations)…
krysning/пересечение/conflux is a light journey through complex territories. A travel with bow and arrow across pastures, mountains as well as manmade landscapes, military zones, harbours, mining areas and settlements in the border zone between Norway and Russia. On the arrow, there is a flute, in the flute, a microphone. The arrow lands somewhere and that somewhere becomes…
Frihetens Forpost (The Garrison of Freedom) was a site specific performance consisted of recorded interviews, film, text, field recordings and a multichannel speaker setup. The work looks at the motifs of man and nature in the Norwegian worker union´s epos and how these songs and lyrics are being related to among the public and union members today. Two places…
-an exhibition by Cecilia Jonsson and Signe Lidén at Lydgalleriet, Bergen 6th December 2013 to 12th January 2014 Coal and iron, modernity’s most important ingredients. Taken from the earth’s pits and potholes, they are transformed into the most marvellous things. Coal is used for casting iron that goes into the railways where the coal-fueled trains…
“Beyond transforms the floor of the large cinema into a resonating loudspeaker. As sound for a blind film or an echo from the cinema‘s past: a scenery of auditory archaeology from the Polish city of Bytom unfolds, a place where buildings, roads and fields slowly collapse into a decades-old labyrinth of coal mine tunnels.” The work…
Les Conseils by Ellen Røed and Signe Lidén reflects on the genesis and geography of CERN by searching archives for traces of the work of the late Odd Dahl and Kjell Johnsen, central to the construction of the Proton Synchrotron—the first proton collider at CERN. The installation Unstable significance consist of a sounding and rotating 4 channel speaker…
The installation was made for the exhibition NOR13 sound based art, at Akershus Kunstsenter 21 Jun – 4 Aug 2013 Ettermælet shows a dark wall that slants inward, into the exhibition space, with an opening to the room behind the wall. There, one may see a concrete block with a sewing machine and a metal…
installation, 2013 Manmade holes that appears in nature has been places of investigation in Signe Lidén´s artistic practice during the past years. Foremost holes where remnants of human civilization is stored for an undefined future have been objects of her research, places like The Global Seed Vault, Onkalo Nuclear Waist Repository and Damanhur Temples of…
The Cold Coast Archive is a joint project between artists Annesofie Norn, Signe Lidén and Steve Rowell using the Svalbard Global Seed Vault as a focal point. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is located on the outskirts of the remote, arctic town of Longyearbyen, on the island of Spitsbergen, in the Svalbard archipelago, halfway between the…
Vestness, site specific installation, Orkney Islands, February 2013 The work was made for Papay Gyro Festival at the remote island Papay Westray in February 2013. The installation is in a cow house at an abandoned farm, where the many plastic pipes on the truss are turned into organ pipes. Compressed air is being sent into the pipes and creates…
This audio archive is a collection of sounds recorded on the train between Benevento and Avelino in Southern Italy. The rail line was shut down in October 2012 as a part of a larger reduction process of public transport in the area. Lidén recorded the sounds of the train, its stations and surroundings during the…
concrete, metal, chain, transducers, cables, amplifier, audio player, 2012 Urphänomene is a sounding concrete block hanging from the ceiling at Bergen Kunsthall. The installation was shown at “A ride full of Traps”, the MA graduation show for Bergen Academy of the Arts in May 2012. …
textile, accordion reeds, hoses, air compressors, archive boxes, laser print on metal The installation was made for Soundings II, Nordic Sound Art Graduation Show at Museum for Contemporary Art in Roskilde May 2012 and showed at LAK Sept 2012. LAK: Roskilde Museum for Contemporary Art:
holes of… consist of text, drawings, a melting wax sculpture and an aquarium filled with space-gel, ants, hydrophones, contact mics and models of the 4 holes on earth that has been under my investigation; The Global Seed Vault, Damanhur Temples of Humankinds, The Archive of Invisible and Lost Knowledge and Onkalo Nuclear Waste Repository. The…
Evigaturen is a long durational instrument made for The Global Seed Vault in Svalbard. The work is a part of The Cold Coast Archive project. Evigaturen is a sculptural, mechanical apparatus constructed to record the activity in one of the three inner chambers where the seeds lays in hibernation. Based on one of the earliest…
Below are two sound pieces made from the recordings I did at Svalbard during my field trip for The Cold Coast Archive. Taubanesentralen, (Coupled Pendulum) was my contribution to the exhibition project Soundworks at ICA in London and Boreal was released at A Quiet Position nr 2. Both sound works in addition to field recordings from…
From time to time, I play concerts with some of my favourite artist and other great people have made releases where I have contributed. Here some links and photos from these collaborations: 25.09.15: malmklang at Kongens Lapidarium, Nordiske Musikdage 2015 14.06.15: Performance at Juniutstillingen at Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo 20.11.14: LYDHØRT III: Opening performance: 18:3019:30. Sculpture 5 by David Toop…
24.03. 2012, in the middle of the night I was alone at BEK in Bergen and improvised for 30 min and these meditative, a bit sleepy sounds were streamed live: ToBeContinued 24. March is the World´s Tuberculosis Day and ToBeContinues is a 24 hours long live session played online by artists and musicians all over the world organised by Antonio Della Marina, musician…
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…
– Floating Shanghai – a sonic examination of the speed of change in Shanghai´s cityscape (8 min)
lost and found lyrics from a floating bridge, 2011 piece of sound, 6 min
Angular Momentum, 2010 Installation in collaboration with Michal Kindernay . Click here for video documentation. – The installation was shown at Entrée under the Piksel festival in Bergen in October 2010 – http://www.piksel.no/http://entree-visningsrom.blogspot.com/– – – – – –
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…
*1 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.…
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/ )…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
