Live processing setup involving portable gramophones, a 4-channel sound system and a computer running Max/MSP. Vinyl source material used is Dvořák's Symphony No. 9

Created for a reading of the manuscript 'RED' by John Logan, that evolves around the work and life/death of the painter Mark Rothko. 

Excerpt from a performance at 'KUNSTEN - Museum of Modern Art', Aalborg DK, March 2012.

cast: Morten Kirkskov & Andreas Berg Nielsen
stage director: Mia Lipschitz
composer: Christian Skjødt

From the New World [excerpt]

VIBRANT DISTURBANCE III
by Christian Skjødt

YEAR: 2014
MATERIALS: 200 loudspeakers, 100 electronic circuits, 5484 m wire 
MEASURES: site specific / 19,7 m x 16,7 m x 7,8 m
EXHIBITION: Műcsarnok Kunsthalle Budapest, Hungary. October 18.2014 - November 23.2014

Vibrant Disturbance III is a study of the relationship between light and shadow, where autonomous analogue circuitry translates the intensity of light into sound.

Throughout the exhibition space this responsive and immersive environment is affected by the inflow of light, primarily due to the weather conditions of the particular day as well as the seasonal changes. On a minor scale the mere presence of the human body is also an influence, via the shadows and changes of light (interference) that the body naturally will produce in the space.

More info: http://skjodt.net/vibrantdisturbance3

Audio documentation from October 20.2014 13:43-13:45

Vibrant Disturbance III 20-10-2014 [13:43-13:45]

COLUMNS
by Christian Skjødt

YEAR: 2014
MATERIALS: 16 metal springs, 16 loudspeakers, sine wave generators, amplifiers, wire
MEASURES: site specific / 500 cm x 200 cm x 25 cm
EXHIBITION: Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark. Kunstrum Snæversti, December 17.2014 - March 15.2015

Columns is a study of the physicality of sound, where 16 kinetic sculptures investigate the visualization of inaudible sound.

Acting as a base of each vertical structure, a loudspeaker produces a frequency below the human hearing range. The loudspeaker is extended with a metallic spring, hereby sending vibrations resulting in longitudinal waves into the spring. As a bi-product of this action - being the only audible sound of the installation - the restrained sound of the metallic material of the spring can be found, as it reacts to the vibrations of the speaker.

More info: www.skjodt.net/columns

Columns

DISSOLUTION & SUSPENSION
YEAR: 2015
DURATION: 36"00' 
PREMIERE: August 18.2015. National Library of Latvia, Riga.

The sound piece Dissolution & Suspension is a reinterpretation of Carl Nielsen’s string quartet in F-minor (opus 5) from 1892. Where we usually perceive a string quartet as one unity, this work is based on a separation and spacious demonstration which translates as a 4-channel loudspeaker setup, so we hereby find ourselves in the middle of the quartet. Advanced audio analysis of recordings of the original string quartet underlying the creation of this new work, where Nielsen's melodic folklike tone is converted into dense (dis)harmonies and almost frozen processes and developments. 
The work, which unfolds in four movements, is commissioned by the Danish Cultural Institute in connection with the selection of Carl Nielsen's 150th birthday. It was first performed at the National Library in Riga, Latvia in connection with Danish Cultural Institute's 25th anniversary August 2015.

Thanks: Simon Drewsen Holmberg/The Danish Cultural Institute, National Library of Denmark, Mira Kvartetten, Lars Lundehave Hansen.

Commissioned by The Danish Cultural Institute with support from the Danish Arts Foundation.

This live recording is a stereo mix down from the premiere performance.

More info: http://skjodt.net/dissolution&suspension/

Dissolution & Suspension - 1.movement [excerpt] - live recording, stereo

Christian Skjødt: 'Innocent Square' [excerpt]
'Wire Tapper 25' (CD), The Wire Magazine 2011

More info: http://thewire.co.uk/archive/issues/15628/the-wire-tapper-25

Innocent Square [excerpt]

Created specifically for a 18th century wine cellar in the Botanical Garden in Riga, the sound installation Illumination examines the translation of the outer circumstances, harvesting the energy from the sun, and bringing this into the cellar in the form of sound.

From the release Illumination (10"). Label: http://tonometer.dk/tonom174.html

More info: http://skjodt.net/illumination/

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Illumination - 27. July 2014 12:00-12:12 (Sunny, Partly Clouded)

Created specifically for a 18th century wine cellar in the Botanical Garden in Riga, the sound installation Illumination examines the translation of the outer circumstances, harvesting the energy from the sun, and bringing this into the cellar in the form of sound.

From the release Illumination (10"). Label: tonometer.dk/tonom174.html

More info: skjodt.net/illumination/

Illumination - 27. July 2014 15:00-15:12 (Sunny)

Dissolution & Suspension is a contemporary reinterpretation of Danish composer Carl Nielsen’s string quartet in F-minor (opus 5) from 1892.

Where we usually perceive a string quartet as a unity, this electronic work is based on the separation and spacious demonstration which translates into a 4-channel loudspeaker setup, so we hereby find ourselves in the midst of the quartet. Advanced audio analysis of recordings of the individual acoustic instruments of the string quartet pose the foundation of this work, and Nielsen's melodic and folk-like tone is transformed into dense (dis)harmonies and almost frozen processes and developments.

Dissolution & Suspension unfolds in four movements like it’s derivation. However with this record release the project takes yet another spacial transition, as it consists of a reworked version in the stereo format, thus returning into a somewhat unified form.

Dissolution & Suspension was commissioned by The Danish Cultural Institute to celebrate the 150th birthday of Carl Nielsen (1865-1913). The world premiere was at the National Library in Riga, Latvia in connection with Danish Cultural Institute's 25th anniversary August 2015. The project is realized with kind support of the Danish Arts Foundation and The Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen Foundation.

More info about the work can be found here: http://skjodt.net/dissolution&suspension/

Dissolution & Suspension - Movement IV

Dissolution & Suspension - Movement III

Dissolution & Suspension - Movement II

Dissolution & Suspension - Movement I

Walk-through of the installation The Receiver (2019).

The Receiver explores electromagnetic radiation emitted from the Sun, by transforming this naturally occurring energy into audible material; filling up the otherwise empty building with sound.

Functioning as a live observatory, The Receiver is a new site-specific sound installation situated in an abandoned silo at the harbour front of Struer.

The installed radio telescope (Ø:3m) consists of a specialised antenna and receiver, operating in the microwave region of the radio frequency portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. The telescope follows the Sun, as Earth rotates around it, and receives electromagnetic radiation that has traveled the 150 million km from the Sun to planet Earth. This energy is the source material of the immersive sonic environment created in the silo.

Herein the frequency spectrum of the sound can be experienced when travelling upwards in the 45 meter tall building, moving from low to high frequency, as crossover filters split up the sounds, covering and slightly exceeding the lower and upper limit of the hearing capacities of humans. Ranging from infra- to ultrasound, the material is conveyed by custom made loudspeakers optimised for the specific frequency range.

The Receiver aims to challenge our sensory perception as human beings. The installation can be seen as a manifestation and a witness of what we as a species are unable to perceive, and of the boundaries between our sensory apparatus and the materiality of the world.

EXHIBITION: Struer Tracks 2019 - International Sound Art Biennale. Struer, Denmark.

More info: http://www.skjodt.net/thereceiver/

The Receiver [walk-through]

Ventilator, trio (2013) is a electroacoustic piece studying asynchronicity as well as different sound phenomena (the proximity effect and Doppler effect).

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