soundSibling is me – Helena Persson – a sound collector, sound composer and artist, working with field recordings. By focusing on the details, the deconstruction of an already existing sound environment becomes reconstructed into a new sonic and spatial scenery, where acoustic and visual esthetics go hand in hand.
I mainly work with sound composition and sound art installations. The works are characterized by field recordings and realized as audiovisual, spatial, multi-channel installations. The installations often consist of cross-arts collaborations with other artists, architects, dancers, choreographers, film makers, musicians etc. Sound serve as a deeper way of registering and understanding the environment, but also as a means of documenting life, often with focus on detailed, subtle and fragile sounds. Railway tracks and sleepers placed in a beech forest, singing like a choir of tuned and pitched railway and level crossing recordings. A hovering kaleidoscopic wooden sculpture sounding in the dark, surrounded by humming chairlifts and rumbling double bass bows. Or an obscure, foggy room filled with grass, where nature meets a dense industrial environment, sonically and visually.
Throughout the years I have approached sound in multiple ways that stretches from artistic works to working as a sound technician and sound designer for film. I collaborate in experimental cross over art constellations and give sound walks and workshops.
Besides the installation art I also performs live in a couple of constellations. The live performances are experimental and improvised, preferably played with EBows on zithers and guitars in for example projects like:
MISOK – Leif Jordansson and me playing strings with fingers, bows, E-bows and several preparations. The album Able to Land is a two track experimental, ambient, drone record where various strings and sounds are processed with mixed with field recordings.
The Great Learning Orchestra – a network of over hundred musicians from different genres, cities and countries exploring music through listening.
Laurna Røde – an E-Bow improvisation duo with David Sabel on guitars and electronics.