Sound's Hidden Journey

2021- 2024

"They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming" 

- Poet Hermann Hesse

We are delighted to team up with Between Music whose creative work involves an international multidisciplinary network of musicians, physicist, engineers, instrument makers, neuroscientists and others,  and established Finnish sound artist Petri Kuljuntausta for Sound's Hidden Journey - Under Nordic Waters project.

Concept, Direction of behalf of MiklagårdArts: Ceyda Berk-Söderblom

SOUND’S HIDDEN JOURNEY UNDER NORDIC WATERS is a sound art exhibition that explores our connection with water and raises questions about the impact of our relationship with nature. The work is based on unique underwater reverb recordings - from the deep caves of the Atlantic Ocean to the quiet fjords of Greenland and the shallow waters of the North Sea. In the underwater realm, sound travels four times faster than in the air. It plays with our sense of direction, and as the sound flows, not through our ears, but directly through the tissue of the body, the line between the self and the surroundings becomes increasingly blurred. A liminal state of disorientation, ambiguity, perpetual flow - and potential new insight. What if we brought this state of mind to the surface?  

Four Nordic artists, each deeply inspired by water in their artistic practice, dive into these distinctive recordings and make each their own artistic interpretation - fluctuating between philosophy and science, myth, ethics and aesthetics. It’s designed to stimulate encounters between artists from the Nordic countries.

Denmark, Finland, the Faroe Islands, Greenland.

📷 Charlotta de Miranda (AquaSonic)

📷 courtesy of Petri Kuljuntausta

Petri Kuljuntausta (Finland), Laila Skovmand (Denmark), Jens L. Thomsen (The Faroe Islands) and Inuk Silis Høegh (Greenland). The artists will be portrayed by a local film crew in each country. The project aims to create a multidisciplinary narrative meeting between music, sound art, film, visual arts, technology and research. The recordings of the artists and video documentation of their work will be exhibited with a sound and film installation. 

Petri Kuljuntausta (Finland) is a composer, sound artist, musician and author. He has given underwater concerts to underwater audiences, played with exotic and ordinary birds, and made works on the sounds of northern lights and space. Kuljuntausta performs as an improvising musician and composes electronic music that is performed and has been released on records of more than 130 works around the world. In addition to soundscape works, he builds sound installations for galleries and museums and has composed music for many films and video works.