Broken Chord
Sound installation by Hans Rosenström
Showings and tickets
Showings and tickets
Thursday, 11/09
Friday, 12/09
Saturday, 13/09
Sunday, 14/09
Thursday, 18/09
Friday, 19/09
Saturday, 20/09
Voices build bridges in a room of glass.
Broken Chord comprises glass panels and recordings of human voices. Each voice flows through a single panel via tiny speakers affixed directly to the glass, setting it into vibration. The voice becomes bodily, and the panel acquires a physical presence. Distinct on their own, together the voices form a single choir.
Rosenström often works with the voice as material. Like the body, it is both deeply personal and inherently public. It carries not only language and meaning but also breath, presence, and a fragile sense of intimacy. A voice can draw us close or keep us apart.
In Broken Chord, the artist explores how the fleeting, organic quality of the voice interacts with the cool, impenetrable surface of glass—and how what at first seems like a barrier can also become a point of connection.
The glass reflects both the room and your own image. You see yourself within the work, while the invisible presence of voices passes through the polished surface, binding the inner and the outer together. Where voice meets body and gaze, a space emerges—reflective, porous, alive. Between what appears, and what listens.
Artist Talk with Hans Rosenström
13 September, 13:00
Atelier Nord hosts a conversation between artist Hans Rosenström and stage director and visual artist Maritea Dæhlin, taking the installation Broken Chord as a point of departure. The talk will delve into Rosenström’s engagement with a wide range of media – from the fleeting yet tactile qualities of sound and the complexities of language to architectural structures and light.
Read more about the installation on Atelier Nord's homepage.
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Facts
- Hans Rosenström (b. 1978) is a Finnish artist based in Stockholm. He works with site-specific installations at the intersection of sound, architecture, and perception.
- The sound material for Broken Chord was recorded in a Berlin studio, with six singers improvising around texts written and compiled by Rosenström.
- Rosenström, on the work: "It's fascinating how our voices move between our bodies, shaping the way we perceive the world. With Broken Chord I wanted to create a piece that is both tactile and ephemeral, addressing these fleeting encounters."
"Evanesce" by Hans Rosenström (2022). Photo: Jussi Tiainen
Hans Rosenström (2017). Photo: Kaapo Kamu
Conception and realisation
- Hans Rosenström
Musical direction and co-composition
- Sophia Brous
Recorded voices
- Eugène Blove
- Sophia Brous
- Alice Heyward
- Gregor Kompar
- Gabriella Liandu
- Holden Madagame
- Holly Sass
In collaboration with
- Atelier Nord
Supported by
- Arts Council Norway
- City of Oslo
- Swedish Cultural Foundation
- Finnish-Norwegian Cultural Institute
