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In
the cold, darkness and with deep snow one of the last things that you
would expect to hear are probably junglesounds. I am interested in that
contradiction
and I would love to try and spread some heat and light.
In the academy of fine art's, Umeå university, project Environmentality*,
introduced by professor Cecilia Parsberg I therefore presented the sound-piece
Beyond (expectation) in collaboration with Taxi Umeorten. It consists
of sounds recorded in South Africa and the rainforests of Malaysia. There
are almost inaudible sounds, so my wish was that one would realize that
they were not coming from the car itself after a short while. I was so
tired of that so much in our environment "has to be" loud and
sharp. Instead I would like to examine if the more timid things in our
existence has another value than the opposite. I was also interested in
the fact that sunlight-therapy is medically used to cure depression. Maybe
also exotic sounds can effect the human moods possitively? The work is
also about transfer, first of all the physical one thru' the taxi-
ride through the *environ-ment and also hopefully in one's *mentality,
when you are audibly transfered closer to the
equator.
The work showed no noticeble effects neither on the drivers
nor passengers. Possibly a louder sound-volume would have made a difference.
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