OBJECTS/INSTALLATIONS
Parhelia (Atelier Nord, 2016)
Parhelia is an audiovisual installation and performance work designed to pick up and represent a sound source from 10 different points simultaneously and in quick succession. It consists of 10 microphones with attached LED lights, and a controller program. The LEDs glow only when their corresponding microphones are in use.
Showcasing the spectral diffusion of a given soundsource (here: a cymbal) in a form of auditory cubism, this work is intended to make clear that a single point representation of an object is in fact a gross reduction of it. The narrow scope of each pickup point is here utilized as an instrument in itself.
Above: Excerpt from visual documentation of installation at Atelier Nord. Below: Audiovisual documentation of a performance version. Percussion played by Mathieu Lacroix.
The Composer
The Composer is a musical instrument intended to symbolize the compositional process, and, in extension, cultural development in general. It consists of 12 motorized music boxes, containing melodies such as Jingle Bells, Frere Jacques, The Internationale and I Did It My Way - cliches of the Western musical canon. I have used The Composer both in improvisation with direct control and as a standalone installation with algorithmic control. The idea is to recombine snippets of each melody into new phrases and chords. Much like in a visual collage, the different cut-outs take on new meanings and connotations as they contextualize each other. I see this process as analogous to traditional composition and other cultural practices, where the familiar - what else? - is deconstructed and rearranged to create new forms and patterns.
TOCK
Men i anna fall maa me verta trælane hans, og de er ikkje ein utveg som høver aat slike menn, som hev likso stort heidersnamn som Harald. Far min totte at de kaare var betre, aa falla i slage som konge, enn aa verta undermannen til kong Harald.» Solve tala for han so, at Audbjørn lova aa fara og drog ihop ein her og fór nordetter til kong Arnvid, og daa hadde dei ein ovende stor her. Dei spurde daa, at kong Harald var komin nordantil, og dei møttest innanfor Solskjel. Den tid var de skikk, naar dei slost til skips, at dei batt skipi ihop og slost framme ved stamnane. So gjorde dei no og. Kong Harald lagde skipe sitt mot skipe til kong Arnvid; dette slage vart styggeleg kvast, og de fall mykje folk paa baae sidur. Sistpaa vart kong Harald so vill og galin, at han gjekk fram i rausni paa skipe sitt, og stridde daa so kvast, at alle f
SKIMR
SKIMR is a video projection system intended for live use in musical and theatrical contexts. It was created in an attempt to communicate the conflicting feelings experienced when seeing a corpse: The familiar human is only a fragile projection on inanimate, neutral matter. The stark contrast between the mask's statuses as subject and object interests me. I have used SKIMR with different faces, reciting text and singing.
Hammertime
Men i anna fall maa me verta trælane hans, og de er ikkje ein utveg som høver aat slike menn, som hev likso stort heidersnamn som Harald. Far min totte at de kaare var betre, aa falla i slage som konge, enn aa verta undermannen til kong Harald.» Solve tala for han so, at Audbjørn lova aa fara og drog ihop ein her og fór nordetter til kong Arnvid, og daa hadde dei ein ovende stor her. Dei spurde daa, at kong Harald var komin nordantil, og dei møttest innanfor Solskjel.