soundart
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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“...and in between, when the sound subsided, there was the never entirely ceasing murmur in my own ears.” — W.G. Sebald, Rings of Saturn
The Quiet Zone is a sound art project that blends field recordings, essayistic text, and photographs in an exploration of the Quiet Zone – an area on Danish trains zoned off for quietude.
The Quiet Zone exists in nearly all Danish train carriages. It is marked by doors that slide open with a wave of the hand. In this zone, which all commuters have an almost trivial relationship with, we all cultivate a silence that is potent with sounds and movements. So much happens here that we take for granted. This project explores the sonic qualities that can be found here and the potential they hold. What connections do we have to ourselves and each other in this zone? What boundaries exist between this and other zones? How do we move within this space? What do we expect from it? What does it expect from us?
The project is released via Exformal Records and includes sound, text and photos.
View from the quiet zone. Photo: Mads Kjeldgaard 2025.
The zone in it's entirety. Photo: Mads Kjeldgaard 2025.
View from the quiet zone. Photo: Mads Kjeldgaard 2025.
View from the zone. Photo: Mads Kjeldgaard 2025.
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This project is made with the kind support of:
Part of longterm project Exformal Records
Exformal Records is a platform for experimental music, sounds and listening practices.
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)
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Death Told So Clearly To Fuck Off (2022)
Ambisonic (3D audio) piece for speaker domes.
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Computer Music Journal, Volume 44, Issue 4 - Space as instrument (MIT) (2020)
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Hold Time (2020)
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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)
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