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: 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 –…

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…

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…

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…

– 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

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/ )…