Skogen är bäst på bild
(2017)- Abstract
- Skogen är bäst på bild is an electroacoustic text-sound-composition work; it could also be considered a radiophonic work. This was the first work of text-sound composition I ever made, repurposing that more abstract genre here as a direct tool for finding memory and identity in the city. Although Stockholm’s history of text-ljud-komposition (text-sound-composition) is something I have engaged with heavily since arriving in Sweden in 2010, I did not draw consciously on those influences while working on this piece. This work is, rather, particularly influenced by a documentary film: Jan Troell’s 1983 documentary Sagolandet (The Land of Fairy Tales). In Troell’s film, portraits are drawn from everyday life, and the stories told by the... (More)
- Skogen är bäst på bild is an electroacoustic text-sound-composition work; it could also be considered a radiophonic work. This was the first work of text-sound composition I ever made, repurposing that more abstract genre here as a direct tool for finding memory and identity in the city. Although Stockholm’s history of text-ljud-komposition (text-sound-composition) is something I have engaged with heavily since arriving in Sweden in 2010, I did not draw consciously on those influences while working on this piece. This work is, rather, particularly influenced by a documentary film: Jan Troell’s 1983 documentary Sagolandet (The Land of Fairy Tales). In Troell’s film, portraits are drawn from everyday life, and the stories told by the subjects in the film stand in concert with or contrast to their surroundings. It confronts irreconcilable layers of society in a biting and poignant way. The stories of various people walking through their daily lives are drawn simply by presenting them almost as portraits, setting ever more strikingly incongruent materials in sequence. This juxtaposition of simultaneous, conflicting realities Troell carries out so well was an inspiration for how I carried out Skogen är bäst på bild (The Forest looks Best in Pictures).
My aim in making this piece was to let the structure and subjects of the work be directed by a variety of voices other than my own. I also aim to form a picture of the city free of my own particular feelings of nostalgia, injustice or hopes that are slanted towards my own particular imagination. However, some distance from its making has shown me that the piece is very nostalgic indeed. This raises questions about the nature of the kinds of questions the participants were considering, and about how nostalgia is a part of the fabric of peoples' conception of the city–at least those that participated in this piece. I tried to focus more on stories that depicted the city in the present day, but also wanted to be sure to honour all the many comments on the past city and nostalgia for it, along with frustration with gentrification or other forms of massive change, which I encountered from those who participated. (Less)
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- Hernandez, Katt LU
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- alternative title
- The Forest looks best in Pictures
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- 2017
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- Non-textual form
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- published
- subject
- keywords
- text-ljud-komposition, Buchla, radiofoni, psykogeografi, ljudkonst, Stockholm
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- Swedish
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- yes
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- 74ded8b0-dfb3-4553-83f3-869d077f1e28
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author = {{Hernandez, Katt}},
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language = {{swe}},
title = {{Skogen är bäst på bild}},
year = {{2017}},
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