KOMPASS / Sannerud skogfrøarkiv
Sannerud skogfrøarkiv
Sannerud forest seed archive
The Sannerud forest seed archive in Hedmark, east-Norway, has plantation fields of spruce, birch and alder, farmed to provide genetically healthy seeds. The trees are planted in grids to collect seeds and pine cones, and the trunks of the spruces are felled at a height of 3-5 meters. The recordings from the archival fields were made over several days from dawn to early afternoon.
Sannerud Spruce
The spruce seed plantation is located next to a highway, which makes traffic the most present sound of the place. A microphone was placed inside the metal pipe where cameras and recording devices were mounted, recording the sounds “trapped” in time in the pipe; the pipe creates longitudinal waves that sounds like choir-like resonances.
Sannerud Alder
The sound is recorded by a contact microphone through a textile membrane (parabol) and a tightly stretched sail. Wind, straw scraping the rigging, birds, trains and muffled traffic can be heard. However, the high frequencies from the dry grass and withered leaves on the trees are not audible. This creates a distance to the image, but opens up another space 'around' or perhaps in front of the image, where low frequency energy dominates.