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THE KREV BRIDGE ANTHEM
During an ice cold winter of 2007 in riga
the national anthem (mixed by the minister of appearing and disappearing lands) was remixed together with king of elgaland-vargaland, leif elggren.

The anthem was played into the main bridge cables and then recorded from within.
The project was presented live during SKAN in riga in september 2007.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MATTER & MEMORY
I visited the Island of The Dead in Venice on the 30st of December 2006 and made recordings of the ambience there. On some of the graves, tiny battery driven music boxes that had been placed only a few days ago. But the batteries were now running flat. This naturally caused them to play a rather disharmonic range of tones and not the melody they were supposed to play. At times they also distorted. The before so positive melody -jingle bells- now sounded rather helpless, almost like a kitsch metaphor for a fading life.

These photos are marble portraits from gravestones of dead people, who have been dead for so long, that their very image is now disappearing. Similar to our own fading memory, for our long dead relatives or friends, - our great grand parents who have been dead for several decades, do we remember how their faces really looked like? These disappearing portraits were for me a subtle methaphor for disappearing memory.

Click on this image to see the series

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

C R Y S T A L A C O U S T I C S

SURFACES OF ICE
- a temporary land and sound

A view on ice and its appearing and disappearing nature. To discover the volatile spaces on and inside ice. Its temporary possibilities, visual formations and spaces of sound

1.
Storm. Lake Havravatn, Iceland, January 2004

2.
Windy. Steady microbeats.
Lake Havravatn, Iceland, January 2004
LISTEN



3.
Lake Krisuvikarvatn, Iceland,
January 2004.
LISTEN



5.
Quiet weather. Lake in Cologne
Germany. January 2004.
LISTEN.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

K A R A H N J U K A R

The Icelandic government is constructing a 190m
high, 730m wide massive dam for a new Aluminium
smelter in the north east of Iceland.

Located north of Vatnajokull, Europe's biggest glacier, Karahnjukar is the area that is due to disappear under150m of water by 2006.

Dimmugljufur canyon will as well partially be
disappearing lands.
Around 60 rivers and waterfalls will disappear or become dry.

LISTEN to wires providing the workers with electricity

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DEN VANDRENDE MILE

In the north of Denmark a massive land of sand is slowly moving across the country. It moves very slowly, but it moves. It already covered a town....

Den Vandrende Mile
The surface of the 'The Wandering Mile' is ca. 800 x 1000 meters large and the highest spots reach up to 40 meters. The 'mile' is a moving sand dessert. There doesn't exist any of is kind elsewhere in the Northern Europe. It is even possible to get lost there.

It slowly moves east across the Northern Danish land where it rolls over everything it comes across. Nobody knows for sure when the Mile started its journey. An estimate is that it started on the Jutlandic west coast in the late 16th century. Then the estimated speed 20 & 30 Km pr. hour.
It started from Råbjerg Stene.A disappearing town was Kettrup which slowly covered in sand from the mile. In 1571 the whole place was removed.