A real-time sound installation by Asa Stjerna 2011 (Premiere)
Currents sound installation is based on scientific research in waters off the Faroe Islands, which examines the influx of warm water in the Nordic Seas, and the link with melting of ice in the Northern Hemisphere.
Measurement data from the North Atlantic currents recorded in an automated research station in the northern Faroe Islands, which sends information to a computer at MISU (Department of Meteorology at the University of Stockholm) and on to a computer connected to the installation of the Opera House in Oslo, where these signals are transformed into a sound-art in real time.
The sound installation Currents Åsa Stjerna want to portray a stream of data in an artistic way which can be seen as a symbol for the discussion of the global melting problem. The purpose is not to answer any questions through the work, but Currents works as a free artistic interpretation that will pass, and bring a flood of information that concern us all. The work also aims to connect different locations together, and thus as an independent poetic meditation, creating an understanding of how a position directly affects another place and make this a room of sound through the installation which is located in the Opera House in association with the sea where the measurements are made.
Streams are created in collaboration with Professor Peter Sigray at the Department of Meteorology (MISU) at Stockholm University, engineer Manfred Fox, Berlin, and software programmers Florian Goltz, Berlin.
Manufacturer: NOTAM
Capital Value thanks to support from Nordic Culture Fund and Längmanska Cultural Foundation and Einar Vang, Faroese Telecom.