NWAVES
Using the unique rise of landmass in the High Coast region of northern Sweden as a departure point, Peter Norrman created an immersive sound and video environment in collaboration with sound artist Leif Jordansson that reworked this northern narrative about a post glacial rebound and changing northern landscape. It is both a suggestive historic narrative and an ambient reflection of the soft and aggressive changes of this unusual landscape.
Shown at Northern Stages, Newcastle in 2010 and at Kulturparken Småland, Växjö, Sweden in 2011.
N.WAVES
A multiplatform art project about the concept of northerness.
By Leif Jordansson and Peter Norrman.
http://nwaves.tumblr.com/
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Northern-Waves/147356551941415
Using a previous installation about the unique rise of landmass in the High Coast region of northern Sweden as a departure point, we have created an immersive sound and video environment that reworks this northern narrative. Originally conceived as a work about the post glacial rebound and changing northern landscape of a 16 mile long coastal line, the soundscape and video created both a suggestive historic narrative and an ambient reflection of the soft and aggressive changes of this unusual landscape.
In this installation - n.waves - the manipulated video will further explore ideas of coastal landshift, the desolate expanse of the north, temporal changes and shifting movements in the nature and the landscape. The 5.1 surround sound will use drones, tones and field recordings from nature; birds, thawing of ice, ripples of water, but also space recordings from the NASA archives. Most of the sounds are treated electronically but in this new version it will be juxtaposed with tonal sounds from an orchestral sinfonietta creating a dialogue with the electronic soundscape.