KOMPASS / Ådal

Ådal
The forests in Ådal are shaped by timber farming and harvesting. Here, the rig was set up on the border between young and old farmed forests and fields that have grown freely after being clearcut. In some of the longest recordings, the rig makes 360-degree sweeps where these different forest types become visible. In the audio recordings, difference in vegetation can be heard through the variation and density of birdcalls and how the acoustic of their calls change, or from how the wind moves through the trees in a different way.

Photo/Edit Ellen Røed
Sound Signe Lidén
Photo/Edit Ellen Røed
Sound Signe Lidén
Photo/Edit Ellen Røed
Sound Signe Lidén
Photo (top to bottom) Ellen Røed (1-3), Patrik Entian (4)
KOMPASS, an artistic collaboration between Ellen J Røed and Signe Lidén, emerged as a separate strand in the artistic research project Image as Site at Stockholm University of the Arts. It built on an earlier phase of the research project where Ellen Røed together with cinematographer and research assistant Ashley Briggs developed a dual camera rig for internal and external studies of sites. In KOMPASS, Lidén re-developed the rig for sound recording. Their collaboration also resulted in an exhibition at Trafo Kunsthall in Asker, Norway, 2022. Rune Søchting was a conversation partner throughout the project.