N-802B-Oslo in collaboration with visual artist Tilman
Kunstnernes Hus - Oslo

Tilman initiated this project and asked me to join and work on a sound environment.

The idea here was to create and project an extremely even sound that has a correlation to its location. With even I refer not so much to its time and soundlevel properties but more its individual perception through space. This was achieved by working with the resonant frequencies and reverberation of the space. I also worked with extreme frequencies below 50hz and higher than 10000hz. The fieldrecordings I used where sounds of the space itself and recordings of melting ice.

With the same recording technique as Alvin Luciers' on his recorded voice for his work "I am sitting in a room", but here with a recorded fragment of crackling ice; The fragment is played in the space and recorded. The new recording is then played back into the space and re-recorded, and this process is repeated many times.

Eventually the sound/frequencies shifted to pure resonant harmonies and tones that are natural/specific to the space itself. The original sound becomes physically closely tied to its location. The character and properties of the crackling ice will even out to a drone.

Afterwards this drone was recomposed within the space with a multi speaker system to open up the dimensional aspects of the sounds. Sounds were diffused over 9 channels. 8 highly directional piezotweeters (for high frequencies) were combined with one subwoofer.