ANDERS HULTQVIST
COMPOSITION - SOUND ART
Invisible Sounds II
Invisible Sounds II
Sound Art Project at Piteå Port 2018
Concept and composition: Anders Hultqvist och Stefan Östersjö
Aeolian Guitar - Stefan Östersjö
Sound Engineer – Jan Berg
Invisible Sounds is an Ecological Sound Art project which explores place through the minute detail of sound and vibration, beyond the limits of human listening. With participation and artistic action as method, the project wishes to create novel understandings and heightened awareness of our environment. This entails a highly site-specific approach, where sound which is often neglected or beyond ordinary auditory perception is brought into focus through artistic engagement, musical composition and technological measurement.
With the use of Fishing lines, a Hydrophone, a Guitar, Accelerometer and Solar Wind Data the project captures ‘invisible’ environmental sounds in Piteå harbour. On September 6 and 7 2018, the group worked on site in the harbour, recording data for the project. The five-meter-long strings mounted on the guitar captures tonal movements in the wind, while the hydrophone can enlarge the sound milieu mostly hidden in the water. The accelerometer mounted on the at the edge of the quay captures both ground vibrations and under water sounds in the harbour. The solar wind effects important parts of our electromagnetic environment and the data become realised as electronic sounds.
Invisible Sounds has been developed as a part of a senior research project at the Academy of Music and Drama in Gothenburg, with support from the Swedish Research Council. The first instalment was created for the GAS-festival in Gothenburg in October 2016. The first phase of the project in Piteå Port was carried out in collaboration also with the Piteå School of Music. For the later phases we are now propose this project to Norrbottensmusiken, and Ensemble NEO.
Forskning.se:
”Musiker har i alla tider inspirerats av natur och levnadsmiljö i sin skapandeprocess. Men få har skapat musik i direkt interaktion med omgivningarna. Forskare som besökt Piteå hamn i Bottenviken har komponerat tillsammans med naturen, i jakt på ljud som inte går att uppfatta med blotta örat.
– Med hjälp av sensorer, hydrofoner och en aeolisk gitarr skapade vind, gitarr och den omgivande ljudmiljön en enhet som gemensamt navigerade i de förutsättningar som platsen hade i ögonblicket, säger Stefan Östersjö, professor i musikalisk gestaltning vid Luleå tekniska universitet och medverkande i Ljudkonstprojektet Invisible Sounds.
Det var hösten 2018, som Stefan Östersjö tillsammans med Jan Berg, biträdande professor i ljudteknik vid Luleå tekniska universitet och Anders Hultqvist, professor i komposition vid Musikhögskolan i Göteborg, besökte Piteå Hamn.
Målet var att utforska ljudmiljön och skapa ljudkonst i direkt interaktion med en plats. Genom sensorer i marken fångades vibrationer upp och via en hydrofon i vattnet kunde även ljud från havet spelas in.”
Ljudinstallationen Invisible Sounds-Piteå Port medverkade under Intonal-festivalen 2019 i Malmö.
