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PARABOL is an off-site project based at another Bergen gallery, Kunsthall 3,14. Lydgalleriet selects a sound work for the parabolic loudspeaker sited in Kunsthall 3,14's entrance hall. The works are curated in response to themes and issues relevant to the exhibition program at Kunsthall 3,14. These sound works are the visitor's first experience when entering the entranceway to Kunsthall 3,14, situated in the premises of an old bank. Lydgalleriet’s curatorial focus in the PARABOL project is on specific editions of a sonic contextual experience. The archive of PARABOL events are listed below.

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FREE FLOW
Mariam Gviniashvili

FREE FLOW is a fixed-media multichannel piece based on Debris' AI-generated violin samples, a database that provided the work's grounding noise (s), glitches, and distorted sounds. Using the selected material, I created a sound-world opposing the traditional sonority of a violin, a sonic space at once powerful, rich in textures, overwhelming, harsh, and ear-piercing. I allowed the sound material to guide me through the compositional process, freely shaping - through a FREE FLOW - the form and dramaturgy of the piece. FREE FLOW is part of Debris project - a set of electronic compositions based on materials generated by the Demiurge audio synthesis engine, a-music machine-learning platform. The piece is curated by Julie Lillelien Porter in relation to the exhibitions Oceanic Horror or How to Survive the Night in the Haunted Mansion of Absolute Capitalism by Søren Thilo Funder, and Whispers in the Vault: Presenting "Another Leader - Act II" by Nástio Mosquito.

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Chidoribashi
Jenny Berger Myhre

Jenny Berger Myhre's work revolves around personal documentation and archives, intimacy, memory, reality and re-contextualisation. As a multidisciplinary artist working with sound, video and photography, most of her practice is focused on collaborations. The piece for PARABOL, Chidoribashi, is composed by containing field recordings from Osaka (2017) and Mexico City (2018), with violin performed and arranged by Cisser Mæhl. The piece is curated by Julie Lillelien Porter in relation to the exhibitions Re-Monument by Nina Sanadze and Smashing Monuments by Sebastián Díaz Morales shown at Kunsthall 3.14.

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Dancing Forest
Merete Røstad

Can a forest be a participatory monument? Dancing Forest is a sonic experience, composed of a sound piece that serves as a score. How do we embody the forest, and how does the forest embody us? This exercise will let us explore listening by activating our very own embodied sound archive. Embodied sound archives are the summary of all our encounters with sound throughout our lifetimes. Let us imagine that our embodied sound archives (are the soundtracks of our lives) and that they create a narrative of all our experiences. This exercise will let us explore listening by activating our very own embodied sound archive. Embodied sound archives are the summary of all our encounters with sound throughout our lifetimes. Let us imagine that our embodied sound archives (are the soundtracks of our lives) and that they create a narrative of all our experiences. Curated by Julie Lillelien Porter for PARABOL, a collaboration with Kunsthall 3.14.

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Touching the Reflection
IIA KO

Nature embodies many intertwining sounds, free in their form, passing from one sound to another, touching and reflecting the environment through itself. It seems to move outside the everyday life in which it exists, and we seem to slide inside this sound.

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The Nomadic Listener
Budhaditya Chattopadhyay

The Nomadic Listener is an augmented book and sound art project exploring migration, urban experience, and sonic alienation.

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Mercury on a Wednesday
Yara Mekawei

Mekawei's work is based on sound as an essential tool of vision. She develops her projects through a research point of inseparably uniting between a piece of work and the other, whose work shows an intangible aspect of her cultural identity in an East African society.

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An Echo Looped
Sarah Boulton

An Echo Looped is a recording of an echo I made that lasts for eighteen seconds that plays on loop. I had wanted to keep an echo.

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Little Queer Lullaby / Listening to a Moonquake
Mor Efrony

Little Queer Lullaby – sound piece for the Parabol project at the exhibition Irresistible Earth.

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Duet/Songs
Ananda Serné

Duet/Songs is a recording of words imitating sounds based on machine-generated transcripts of insect communication.

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Harmonious Madness
Kobie Nel

Kobie Nel observed and recorded the songbird vocals that unfolded over the weeks of the exhibition Apple Puma, fascinated by their instinctive, territorial and sexual vocal signalling to each other during the seasonal change.

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Orogeny
Emilie Wright

Emilie Wright is a Bergen based artist from Melbourne, Australia whose works exist at the threshold between language, text, sound and listening, between poetic material and immaterial considerations.

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a financial story
Arthur Hureau

This piece is a mix of field-recording and mathematical functions, exploiting the symbolism of Kunsthall 3.14 as a former bank and the concrete aspect of in-situ noise-prints.

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Long Distance Improvisation in Real Time
Ximena Alarcón

PARABOL presents a fragment of Long Distance Improvisation in Real Time by Ximena Alarcón, a recorded improvisation among nine Colombian and Latin American immigrant women residing in Oslo, Barcelona and London on 7th May, 2019. 

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Shotgun Architecture
Justin Bennett

The recorded sound of a pistol shot in a number of semi-public open spaces in the Zuidas district in Amsterdam, thus the acoustic signatures (the impulse responses) of each space, was used in two ways whilst developing Shotgun Architecture. The recordings were used to create a sound composition which explores the resonances of the chose places by repeatedly recycling or “feeding back” the sounds of the gunshots through the spaces. The resulting piece moves between a dramatic realism to a abstract composition reminiscent of the electronic music of the 1950’s.

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Plommehagepartitur
Mari Kvien Brunvoll, Elida Brenna Linge

Plum Garden Scores is a collection of schematic drawings together with a sound piece inspired by these. Exhibited through the parabolic speaker at Kunsthall 3.14.

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Combined national anthems
Laurie Lax

The sound component of «Combined national anthems» includes the national anthem tunes of: Cyprus, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, UK and USA, who all appropriate the oak as their national tree.

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Stereocilia for 2 Ears
Jacob Kirkegaard

Edited from acoustic recordings of spontaneous otoacoustic emissions - clusters of simultaneously emitted tones from both ears of a single person.