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Ghost Installation: Rönnells

 

Ghost Installation: Rönnells. All that remains documented is this short video clip.

In January of 2022, I made an installation event at Rönnells antikvariat. I set larger speakers up on the balcony, and played three of the large-scale multi-channel compositions from this project– Skogen är bäst på bild, Vädersolsmodernitet and Vart ska dom ta vägen nu?–at a very much lowered volume. I made them hoping they could function both as concert pieces and as installations. The event at Rönnells proved successful in that regard. 

 

In another section of the store, I installed the 8 MiFa speakers with a new Ghost Installation. For this, I took recordings of authors reading their own work, including Karin Boye, Åke Hodell, Tomas Tranströmer, Katarina Frostenson and Klas Östergren, and processed their speech into non-recognizability. I also read some texts, myself, from the classics genre, and added my voice to the processing. All of the synthesizer sounds are triggered by these voices; even those where the voices are not apparent. The section of the shop where I installed this piece has sections of Greek and Roman classics, some poetry, nautical subjects and military history.x So the works I chose, even though they were no longer recognizable as such, dealt with those subjects. 

The original tracks for this Ghost Installation have been lost. All that remains is this room recording.