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Discipline
17.4 sound piece, 12:22 min, 2025
Discipline was composed for a surround sound concert at Lyssningsrummet, Stockholm, where the audience is encircled by speakers and subwoofers. The sound material was gathered during my fieldwork in Gjerdrum and Bagn, Norway—sites where landslides of earth and mud have reshaped the landscape, often through the interplay of human intervention, shifting climate, and the ground’s own movements.
The composition opens with two electroacoustic signals that alternate independently. When they occasionally align, a vibrating resonance emerges in the room. From this sonic ground, point-like scrapes from contact microphones appear, moving between the speakers and gradually giving way to excavator engines that build toward a crescendo. Out of the sound mass, a vibrating guitar string rises, gliding through the room and leaving behind an echo that slowly fades. When the engines and the string fall silent, a stream remains—its running water weaving together the remnants of earlier sound layers before drifting away.
The piece was created for Traversées Sonores—an event I co-organized at Lyssningsrummet, Stockholm. The title translates to Sonic Crossings, an ongoing initiative supporting emerging artists working with sound. The concert was realized with the generous support of Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm and Institut Français de Suède. Other participating artists included Ash, Mari Mattsson and tm. The event was later restaged during Nuit Blanche 2025 at the Swedish Institute in Paris.