installation
Moans and Groans (2025)
The forest is a sex toy: Recreating the wind in the trees through a series of sound sculptures with vibrator motors.
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The sculptures of Moans and Groans explore this fundamental question: How do we listen with our skin? How does nature with its skin? These questions are explored through a series of sound sculptures that translate recordings of trees’ movements into vibrations in tree branches.
The sculptures of Moans and Groans play back audio recordings of trees’ movements in the wind – recordings made in Denmark, a flat land with lots of wind, using a special device allowing to pick up the deep, low frequency vibrations the wind causes in the tree trunks as it passes through the forest. The recordings were made from the perspective of the tree itself: In the dirt between its roots as well as in crevices in the its trunk.
Viewers are invited to touch the sculptures and feel the vibrations they transmit as they attempt to resynthesize the experience of the tree rocking in the wind.
Each sculpture contains a vibrator motor. Using custom electronics, they repurpose technology from sex toys, smartphones, and gamepads to translate audio into vibrations, a tactile language well known by anyone in our modern era through the everyday use of consumer electronics.
The title refers equally to the activities of the trees recorded – how they react to movements and wind in their surroundings – as well as the activities commonly associated with vibrator motor technology.
Activities
The first exhibition with these sculptures will be at Notam in Oslo, Norway where they will be installed from April 2025.
These are the activities planned for 2025 for this project:
- April 23rd, 2025: Workshop - Haptic Feedback at Notam. Click here to sign up.
- April 25th, 2025: Talk and Fernissage, Notam, Oslo, Norway. Click here for more information.
- April-June, 2025: Exhibition - Moans and Groans at Notam in Oslo, Norway.
Electronics
Making electronics for Moans and Groans 2025.
Each sculpture contains a custom-designed audio player that is able to play back audio and translate it into vibration motor signals. It is designed by Mads Kjeldgaard 2025 for hyaline.systems, and both the electronics as well as the software running on it are open source:
- Hardware: Teensy Haptic Audio Player.
- Software: Haptic Fields Firmware.
Support
This project is made with the kind support of:
The Quiet Zone (Work in Progress) (2025)
Exploring the sounds of a "quiet" public area on Danish trains.
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Moans and Groans (2025)
The forest is a sex toy: Recreating the wind in the trees through a series of sound sculptures with vibrator motors.
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Empty Cloud (2025)
12 hours, 15 minutes and 7 seconds of minimalist background music.
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Space In Between (2024)
Slow ambient piano looping with the window open and the outside world seeping in.
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Internal Organs (2023)
A 4 channel interactive installation for virtual organs.
Musik for virtuelle orgler (2023)
A release of algorithmic organ music for virtual organs on SuperPang.
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Death Told So Clearly To Fuck Off (2022)
Ambisonic (3D audio) piece for speaker domes.
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Singularity: Music for a dance performance (2022)
Interactive sounds and music for solo dancer Külli Roosna.
Akkorder (2020)
Algorithmic music CD release on Ambitious Tapes.
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Computer Music Journal, Volume 44, Issue 4 - Space as instrument (MIT) (2020)
Feature in MIT's Computer Music Journal.
Hold Time (2020)
Algorithmic music release on SuperPang.
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I Solens Flint 1000 Floder (2019)
Ambisonic (3D audio) piece for speaker domes, commissioned by NOTAM and Ultima Festival.
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Sværm: Båndmagasinet (The Lake) (2019)
Harmonic drone piece released as part of the Tape Magazine by The Lake/Resonans Recs.
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Hollow Body Timbals (2018)
Field recordings of cicadas. CD released by FLUF.
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States of Emergency (2018)
Electroacoustic music, released by Conditional Records.
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Else Marie Pade 'Samlede tekster' (2017)
A book collecting all texts written by the Danish composer Else Marie Pade.
Music for Power Supplies (2017)
Drones based on electromagnetic recordings of studio power supplies. Released by Co-Dependent.
Spatial remixes of classic electronic music (2019-2021)
Classic pieces remixed in ambisonics for speaker domes and sound diffusion systems.