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 recreate the sensation of the wind in the trees. Through branches equipped with vibration motors, a custom-made electronic circuit translates seismic recordings captured between the roots and in the crevices of trees in Denmark back into vibration motors known from consumer electronics.
Viewers are invited to touch the sculptures and feel the vibrations they transmit as they resynthesize the experience of the tree rocking in the wind, from the perspective of the tree itself.
The title refers equally to the activities of the trees recorded – how they react to movements and wind in their surroundings — and the activities commonly associated with vibrator motor technology.
Moans and Groans is the first part of the long-term project Haptic Fields, a speculative artistic investigation of material vibrations in nature, biology, humanity and technology.
The first exhibition of Moans and Groans is at Notam in Oslo, Norway, where the sculptures are installed from April 2025 to ultimo June 2025.
Twigs with vibrators.
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:
Part of longterm project Haptic Fields
A speculative artistic investigation of material vibrations in nature, biology, humanity and technology.
Life in the Quiet Zone (2025)
An audio essay about the so-called quiet zone in the Copenhagen S-train system.
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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.