An Acoustic Study of The Ocean.

An Acoustic Study of the Ocean at Ljudexkursioner 2014

The piece comes from the old practice of a “feeling wire”, a piano string which swedish fishermen used in order to locate fish with the feeling.
A free sequence of the piece An Acoustic Study of the Wind.
Above: details from the premiere at Ljudexkursioner, with the sailing boat Schhh, in Stockholm's Archipelago with Ann Rosén & Sten-Olof Hellström. Sailing from Dalarö to Utö; sound excursion and mini concert at Utö, Norra Gästhamnen; live concert from the boat at Utö, west of Ängsholmen, at the entrance to Kyrkviken, in collaboration with Katarina Eriksson and Per Sacklén.

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Pictures from the building and installation of the piece. Photos © by me (and others coming later).

When I prepared myself for my participation in Sound at Nissan, I closely inspected the bridges in the area around Halmstad and contemplated the possibilities. “Strindberg's Bridge”, (or Gamletullsbron) striked me as ideal for An Acoustic Study Of The Ocean. As a “thank you” to the fish and other underwater inhabitants that I expected to hear through the installation, I also wanted to give them the opportunity to share sounds with the beings under the river surface, so I also made a piece on the other side of the bridge, called Play The Bridge For The Fish!.

An Acoustic Study of The Ocean was a sound installation that I made as part of Sound at Nissan, Halmstad 2016: Sound Art along the river. International artists and local inhabitants co-operated in a series of sound expeditions, installations and performances along Nissan - from the harbor, passing by Tullkammarkajen and all the way up to Slottsmöllan. Organizer: Harp Art Lab. Guide book in English.

I performed four pieces: Play The Bridge For The Fish!, Sound Fishing, An Acoustic Study Of The Ocean, and Stringed Stirrups in collaboration with Ann-Louise Liljedahl and Mikael Ericsson. I also had two guest appearances as a rabbit in performances by Kajsa Magnarsson.


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Updated the 28th of February, 2019.