In 2009, I realized a drama-based sound installation in collaboration with Norwegian writer Jon Fosse and producer Svante Löwenborg. The work was produced for an annual festival at Festplassen in Bergen and later presented in Gothenburg. In this project, Jon Fosse performed the reading himself, voicing the female role from his play Og aldri skal vi skiljast (And Never Shall We Be Separated).
The installation combined Fosse’s spoken text with spatialized sound environments composed and structured by me. Four directional loudspeakers from Panphonics were used to distribute the audio across four distinct listening zones. These zones were physically marked on the stone paving of Festplassen using golden tape, forming temporary “rooms” within the open public square.
As visitors moved through the marked areas, different narrative fragments and sonic atmospheres became audible, allowing the dramatic text to unfold through bodily movement and spatial orientation rather than linear narration. The work transformed the public square into an intimate listening environment, exploring how voice, space, and attention interact within a shared urban setting.
Here is an example of what was heard in room nr2
It was rebuilt in Gothenburg 2010 at the Drottningtorget.
The review in the local newspaper (Norwegian).
