Prøverommet organises an evening of sound-based practices at Lydgalleriet, bringing people together across disciplinary interests for an informal and fun evening.
Information about the participating artists and the works they show:
Emily Adomah's 'Nature Voices' is the attempt to personify the voices of various areas in nature, such as the sea or the desert, through improvisation with voice and electronics. It is part of a bigger compositional framework with the working title 'pollution', which seeks to examine the relationship between humans, sound and nature. By personifying nature, 'Nature Voices' aspires to encourage more climate awareness as nature’s own voice will ring louder in the multitude of human voices.
Søren Krag will present the first iteration of a video-installation project carrying the working title 'system of clouds and birds'. In the installation consisting of several CRT-televisions, Krag attempts to convey the motion of clouds through experiments in randomness, time-lapse and sound. In addition to the TV installation, Søren will present a ‘concert by computers’. Søren has been using the out of date operating system Windows XP to generate music, likening the process to a “sourdough broth”.
Sonja Ovaskainen 'Good Guy' is a sculptural sound installation, a utopist garden where misogynic structures only exist in the minds of harmless fictional trolls. These creatures have been cursed to accompany each other for eternity.
Karina Sletten 'spectres of love' is a sonic reflection of readings and understandings of my own texts, and works of others around the topic of love. bell hooks wrote "All About Love" in 1999. She calls her chapters different aspects of love, familiar, erotic, friendly – looking at its features in various relationships and looking at autonomy within love – whereas I use the word "spectre", looking at the ghostliness of love, a sort of hauntological reading of the illusion or shades of love. For Prøverommet, the piece is performed with another musician for the first time, guitarist Martin Borge.
Frederic Stritter 'Mosaik' is a live set in progress, using a variety of field recordings and electronics. A play of zooming in and out on particular fragments. Sounds are imitated, abstracted or developed into new ones. 'Mosaik' contemplates two opposing positions: - Absolutely nothing is natural anymore -Humans are natural, hence everything created by humankind is natural.
Espen Tversland 'Nowhere to Ἀϝίδης' is an animation using Artificial Images, AI. The soundscape consists of AI generated samples of death metal music made with Musika. The project is an investigation into open source software and community-driven AI models as artistic tools. I am working on several projects with AI as a tool (or as an external body according to some AI tech gurus). I balance (and fall) into many pitfalls and contradictions with these projects. I know there is a great international discussion on ownership, copyrights, climate footprint and whether AI can create full-fledged art. How does the role of the artist and the creative person change when art, text and music are created with a computer model learning? I'm not yet sure what and where AI is or can/should be used, but for now I'm following the tool down the rabbit hole.
Prøverommet 2023 is supported by City of Bergen and County Vestland.