2015 · Aarhus, Denmark.

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there is a vast
silent empire
hidden
between moments passing
glimpsed only
forgetting
in the absence of all power

wake

vent

caper

2014 · Aarhus, Denmark.

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there is a vast
silent empire
hidden
between moments passing
glimpsed only
forgetting
in the absence of all power

interstices

empty center

quotidian mass

2017 · Copenhagen, Denmark.

Premiered at X and Beyond in Copenhagen, February 2017.

Effacement Cycles

2017 · Copenhagen, Denmark / Eiði, Faroe Islands.

Original format: 12-channel fixed medium.

Premiered at Den Sorte Diamant in Copenhagen on November 4, 2017.

Vocals performed by Anna Katrin Øssursdottir Egilstrøð.

The piece was commissioned by The Royal Danish Library.

Awarded first prize in category A of the 10th biennial acousmatic composition competition Métamorphoses (Belgium, 2018).

Vestiges (Stereo reduction)

Written in collaboration with artist Jens Settergren (http://jenssettergren.com).

2018 · Eiði, Faroe Islands / Copenhagen, Denmark / Berlin, Germany.

Original format: 6-channel fixed medium.

Premiered at Errant Sound in Berlin on January 20, 2018.

Commissioned by Errant Sound.

Topos was realised with generous support from Statens Kunstfond (Danish Arts Foundation).

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Extract from program notes:

Working with a tropics-themed found sound library compiled solely from Hollywood feature films, Edin and Settergren have composed the six-channel piece Topos. They have chosen to focus exclusively on those sounds that, in the grand scope of Hollywood narrative, supply only a supplementary role. Room tones, ambiences, foley— sounds one might argue are present in a film not to be listened to as such, but rather not to be noticed missing, are in the present work singled out of their various (often heroic masculine) dramas and thrust centre stage. Here, contexts out of context, they are cast in roles altogether different than in their respective blockbusters.

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Original poster designed by Alexander Schmidt.

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Sampled films:

Apocalypse Now
The Beach
Cast Away
Papillon
Platoon
Rescue Dawn

Topos (Stereo reduction)

Written in collaboration with artist Jens Settergren (http://jenssettergren.com).

2018 · Hanstholm, Denmark.

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"Data Drives All That We Do" – Cambridge Analytica

Influencer is a text-sound composition by sound artist and composer Sebastian Edin and artist Jens Settergren, created specifically for Hanstholm Fyr.

The composition takes API Image Content Analysis as its main focal point. The work is composed in five movements: object; face; logo; action; scene– according to the five basic categories used by API’s to analyse and categorise the billions of images they are exposed to on a daily basis. The API detects and categorises images through thousands of categories, such as mountain bike, happiness or nature. Edin and Settergren have worked together with three voice actors, whose voices form a kind of choir exploring the five aforementioned categories, according to an internal logic that might appear in a certain state of dissolution. The pieces’ soundscape consists of field recordings carried out by the artists at Hanstholm Fyr and at other sites in the local vicinity, among them an active windmill at Østerild Testcenter. Wires; the clicking of cog wheels; structures straining under the stress of high wind speeds; humming electrical apparatuses and more has been edited into a composition which blends with the sonic environment of the lighthouse– while simultaneously setting a technologically saturated scene for the three voices.

Influencer plays with the idea of categorization and what it means for our contemporary production and understanding of images that our visual culture is increasingly analysed and shaped by artificial intelligences.

Influencer (Edited excerpt)

2018 · Stockholm, Sweden.

Composed during a two month residency at Elektronmusikstudion EMS in Stockholm, with support from Nordic Culture Point.

Premiered at Saarbrücker Tage für elektroakustische und visuelle Musik on the 31st of October 2019.

Original format: 8-channel fixed medium.

Exiles (Stereo reduction)

2012 · Aarhus, Denmark.

Premiered at DIEM Elektro, Aarhus, Denmark in November 2012.

Heads or Tails

Typewriter Music

2013 · Aarhus, Denmark.

Premiered at the NyMus Live Festival, Härnösand, Sweden in April 2013.

Render to Stem Tracks (And Mute Originals)

Sebastian Edin is a sound artist and composer. Their work includes fixed media compositions, sound installations, performance pieces, music for modern dance and theatre and pieces for instruments and electronics. Their work has been presented in Denmark, Sweden, Finland, the Faroe Islands, the U.S, England, Italy, Belgium and Germany at venues and festivals such as L'Espace du Son in Brussels, Belgium; LAK Festival, Rum 46 and Den Sorte Diamant in Denmark; Norbergfestival and NyMus Live in Sweden; G! Festival and The National Art Gallery of the Faroe Islands; Conservatorio Pollini di Padova, Italy; ICMC-NYCEMF in New York; North Atlantic Flux Festival in Hull, England; Jornadas Internacionales de Música Electroacústica in Córdoba, Argentina and Errant Sound Berlin and Saarbrücker Tage für elektroakustische und visuelle Musik in Germany.

They were awarded first prize in category A of the 10th biennial Métamorphoses competition for their piece Vestiges (Belgium, 2018).

Sebastian Edin

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