Sympathetic Resonances

The title suggests an interaction between object and sound. The titel is a phrase borrowed from the world of musicology, where the term “sympathetic resonances” is described as- a harmonic phenomenon wherein a formerly passive string or vibratory body responds to external vibrations to which it has a harmonic likeness-

In the exhibition, various acoustic phenomena has been explored. The series of drawings with the same titel as the exhibition explores the acoustic phenomena of healing- and subjective frequencies, frequencies heard but non existing. The ink drawings were created through letting the drink dry into the paper as the paper itself was vibrating on speakers emitting the sound of a Solfeggio frequency.

The audiovisual installation “Critical Distance” further explores sounds with potential healing properties; tibetan bowls, sounds that triggers alpha waves in the brain, sounds that reportedly were used frequently in ancient Egypt, Greece as well as used by native populations to heal and focus. Spheres - made of paper clay, brass rods and brass bells- both contain and emit the sounds as well as suggests a choreographed movement in the room. The titel again references a phenomena within the field of acoustics, where the point of “critical distance” is a relation between the sound source, the room, and the listening subject. The critical distance is the point at which it is the most difficult to listen to the sound source efficiently.

The installation “Catacoustic Movement” consists of four triangle-shaped objects. Catacoustics is the science of how sound echoes and reverberates in a room. Placed on wheels, the structures are mobile in the room and can thus be made to react- and function with different situations and areas within the gallery. They are also fractions of additional walls that conceals, hides, reveals, echoes and reverberates. The four triangles are inspired by sound absorbing and sound reflecting structures and materials.