Desibel is a protest against ruthless exploitation of natural resources and against short time profit thinking.
Desibel is 10 meters long, sounding with frequencies between 15 Hz and 15 000 Hz, reaching 130 Db within ten meters distance.
Weight: 2 tons
Height: 3.6 meters
Length: 10 meters
It plays a ten-minute long composition written by Maja S. K. Ratkje. The composition is made based on frequency analysis of the horns, and the pitches are chosen to give the horns a full volume range. The main sound source is trombone, a sound that one can associate with due to its shape. The trombone is sampled and pitched and layered in large chords, sometimes treated with noise effects, but most of the time as it is. The sound of seagulls is also present – an absurd, over-sized response to the mining company’s promise that the mining work will only be as loud as the seagulls.
credits
from Various Artists: "The Border",
released December 24, 2022
Composer: Maja S. K. Ratkje
Sculpture: Geir Hjetland
Sound engineer: Bjørn Kolbrek
Produced by: Torkil Sandsund and Wenche Wefring
Robin Stöckert/ Soundscape studios (consultant), Harald Fetveit (idea) and Frode Haltli (trombone)
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