Mountain project publications
Nature, wilderness and ecological Awareness: Exploration, experience and the creation of audiovisual artworks of a mountain,
Ph.D. in Sonic Art at Department of Music, Goldsmiths University of London 2019
Here are the sound clips referred to in text.
Abstract
Based on process philosophy and ecological philosophy, the project explores the concept of ecological awareness in the experience of a mountain, and in audiovisual artworks. The fieldwork takes place at Tvergasteinstjørn on Hallingskarven mountain range in Norway, in a period of about five years.
The methodology is Practice Research where knowledge develops in the interplay between theory and practice. In this project, the body and the senses are the primary sources of knowledge. Sensibilisation is to enhance the ability to discern and find meaning in the continuously changing nuances of the environment, and this is both method and aim. Diary notes, visuals and sound recordings, and readings of fiction and non-fiction literature also enhance sensibilisation.
The project explores in what way recording technology, photography, sound and video, facilitates, or distorts knowledge of the mountain. Audiovisual artworks, like photographs, audiodocumentaries, soundscape compositions, multimedia and videos are developed during the along the way. This creative process stimulates reflection and the artistic outcomes contribute to communication of the research findings. Finally, the project discusses how one may communicate experiences of nature through sound and visuals in a way that contributes to ecological awareness.
Embodiment, Technology and Ecological Awareness at the Site of Deep Ecology,
RUUKKU Studies in Artistic Research No. 14 Ecologies of practice 2020
Abstract
Based on process philosophy and ecological philosophy, the project explores ecological awareness in the experience of a mountain. The fieldwork takes place at Tvergasteinstjørnet, a mountain area located in Hallingskarven mountain range in southern Norway, over a period of approximately five years.
The research aim is to explore, experience and artistically articulate the mountain. This includes the experience of ecological awareness or the sense of being embedded, being part of and being vulnerable. This is art- and practice research where knowledge develops in the interplay between theory, practice and art production.
Here, the body and the senses are the primary sources of knowledge. Sensibilisation is to enhance the ability to discern and find meaning in the continuously changing nuances of the environment, and this is both method and aim. Diary notes, visuals and sound recordings, together with readings of literature enhance sensibilisation and awarness.
The project explores in what way recording technology, photography, sound and video, facilitates, or distorts awareness of the mountain. Sonic and audiovisual artworks are developed the along the way. The project discusses the use recording technology in a way that enhances ecological awareness. The creative process stimulates reflection and the artistic outcomes contribute to the research findings.
Mountain meets Urban Waterfront,
seismograph.org in the Fluid Sounds issue, August 2016
Audio papers resemble the regular essay or the academic text in that they deal with a certain topic of interest, but presented in the form of an audio production. It is an extension of the written paper.
This audiopaper is a collaborative soundwork and was made and presented at the Fluid Sounds Conference in Amager, Copenhagen in June 2015. It is a mix of mountain sounds and recordings from the post-industrial harbour of Islands Brygge. The work is a collaboration with Alexandra Baixinho, Institute for Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon (ICS-UL). We recorded sounds from the harbour and installed the mountain composition. Then we recorded the mix of sounds from these two sites. Finally, we recorded our own voices.
References
Barthes, Roland. 1993. Camera Lucida : Reflections on Photography. London: Vintage.
Schafer, R.M. 1994. The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World. Rochester, Vermont: Destiny Books.