DISSOLUTION & SUSPENSION Christian Skjødt

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1 DISSOLUTION & SUSPENSION Christian Skjødt YEAR: 2015 DURATION: 36"00' FORMAT: 4-channel loudspeaker setup PREMIERE: August National Library of Latvia, Riga. The sound piece Dissolution & Suspension is a reinterpretation of Carl Nielsen s string quartet in F-minor (opus 5) from Where we usually perceive a string quartet as one unity, this work is based on a separation and spacious demonstration which translates as a 4-channel loudspeaker setup, so we hereby find ourselves in the middle of the quartet. Advanced audio analysis of recordings of the original string quartet underlying the creation of this new work, where Nielsen's melodic folklike tone is converted into dense (dis)harmonies and almost frozen processes and developments. The work, which unfolds in four movements, is commissioned by the Danish Cultural Institute in connection with the selection of Carl Nielsen's 150th birthday. It was first performed at the National Library in Riga, Latvia in connection with Danish Cultural Institute's 25th anniversary August Thanks: Simon Drewsen Holmberg/The Danish Cultural Institute, National Library of Denmark, Mira Kvartetten, Lars Lundehave Hansen. Commissioned by The Danish Cultural Institute with support from the Danish Arts Foundation.

2 ADUMBRĀRE Christian Skjødt YEAR: 2015 MATERIALS: 30 loudspeakers w. electronic circuits, IR illuminator, wire MEASURES: site specific / 8 m x 8 m x 3,5 m EXHIBITION: IHC Experimental Gallery, New Delhi, India. January 2016 Adumbrāre is a study of the relationship between light and shadow, where autonomous circuitry translates the intensity of (invisible) light into sound. This installation is a practical attempt to create a immersive and user-dependent multisensory system, and give the spatial frames a new definition and meaning. Installed in a black box scenario handmade circuit boards and corresponding speakers are reacting to the intensity of infrared light. An IR illuminator placed in the middle of the space, acts as the primary source of (invisible) light, thus making movements in The space directly influence the sound and experience. Hereby, by his mere presence in the space, the individual spectator Investigates its participatory role which leaves him the power to co-influence the auditory and spatial experience of the piece. This work is a continuation of a sound installation series starting with Vibrant Disturbance in 2012 examining translations of light into sound and responsive environments. Realized with support from the Danish Arts Foundation.

3 CHAOTIC FLOW Tobias Lukassen Data Visualization installation for the 4S / EASST joint conferences in Copenhagen October Using water pumps, compressed air and 1000 meters of PVC tubing we designed a sculpture that simulates the flow of bike traffic through the streets and pathways of Copenhagen. ILLUTRON Tobias Lukassen Illutron designed a large scale interactive art installation for Skanderborg festival The installation consisted of a big fire cannon mounted at the main entrance of the festival. The participants could trigger the canon by playing together on oil drums.

4 Rune Søchting (Selected works) RUINFLATABLE UNHEARD Installation by Rune Søchting and Kristoffer Akselbo. Comissioned by DR koncerthuset, The Danish National Radio s Concert Hall, December Taking its cue from the question of how new music can emerge, the work stages a number of different renditions of a recorded conversation among a group of choir vocalists about a music that does not yet exist. The work itself approximates various instances of a new possible music as it emerges through systems of transcription and translations of the conversation. POINT LINE PLACE Performance at Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art. An architectural investigation of the exhibition space. Through the employment of directional speakers mounted on custom made motorized stands, a "concert" were performed with sounds (sine waves and broadband noise) moving through performance space creating various spatial structural patterns. PLAYING 1SHANTIROAD Installation based on a site-specific search for silence. One layer of the work was an investigation of the phenomenon of standing waves within the gallery space in 1Shanthiroad, Bangalore. The result was a spatial mapping of the unique resonant properties of the gallery space and how it responds to different frequencies at different locations within the room. Based on this mapping, frequency-specific points of silence were found. TALE SPEECH Project for "Lydwerk", presented at Overgaden Institute for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen. The work is an audio-piece based on a 50 year old, found recording of a public speech recorded on a wire recorder. The recorded speech is erased and the work explores the silent moments, pauses, noises and reactions from listeners and ambient atmospheres.

5 JAAGO RE JAAGA Multi channel sound work designed for Jaaga, an open community space in central Bangalore, India. Jaaga is physically a unique 3 story scaffold structure where visitors can stay on all levels. The work explores the spatial transparency of Jaaga. Speakers were installed throughout the building. As a whole the sound-work were designed to create an enclosed 3 dimensional sound-field that at the same time would work as an auditory counter-image to the clear presence of the background traffic and the sounds from the surrounding city. Bubble Tea Installation for exhibition in Odense Kunsthal. Recordings of bubbles in water are diffused through piezzo components located under small teacups. The sound blends in with the sounds in the environment and creates a discrete yet strange sonic backdrop in the room Random A Collaboration with artist Shih Yun Yeo. Audio-video production. Combining moving image produced via ink on 16 mm film and miniature interlacing of recorded sound, concepts of time, memory and materiality are addressed. Screened at Lasalle college of the Arts, Singapore LISTEN / SUNOH Project for the festival Carnival of e-creativitiy 2010 in Sattal, India involving a workshop and a performance. Participants from a local school (GGIC) engaged in a sonic investigation of everyday objects and developed a joint performance using recordings and digital tools. Wordspaces Sound installation for a bookshop in Møllegade in Nørrebro, Copenhagen. The work investigates the relationship between language, writing and the experience of space. Sounds of writing is heard through a wooden panel above transmitted via transducers. Voices are heard through small speakers around the listener describing memories of spaces Lydspejlinger / Sound reflections Outdoor sound installation commissioned by The Museum for Contemporary Art in Roskilde for the exhibition 'KURS: The square'. The echo is the motif for the work that is installed at 'Hestetorvet' in central Roskilde. Sound picked up at the square is being projected by directional speakers as echoes of earlier events. Life of Shadows (with Zeenath Hasan) Performance series. Abstracting from the Phad, a clothpainting for storytelling, an overhead projector is used as a storytelling device to create windows that both reveal and occlude the Life of Shadows