Torn Tracks website: Field Guide view
The project’s platform:
www.torntracks.com
Torn Tracks (2015-ongoing) is a project in constant flux, based on a growing, ever-changing collection of tracks. These tracks do not have one final, fixed form – they can exist in various forms at the same time, be it one made in the studio, played live or a field recording. And the possibility of them being re-recorded, remade, replaced or taken away over time is never excluded. The tracks are made from sounds recorded from the my immediate surroundings (both more and less subtle, foreground and background sounds), sometimes combined with sounds of my voice and/or electric violin. They form a collection of fragments that are brought together in various ways on the project’s website, creating new connections.
By structuring the tracks in different ways on this website, changing which tracks show up and how, various contexts are created and consequently various options for how they can be heard and perceived. This emphasizes the relativity of every single one of them, and of the archive as a whole. What happens, for example, if the tracks are organized chronological, based on their pitch, or in a way that is similar to a bird guide? How does it sound when you make an ‘average’ based on all the versions of a track?
Torn Tracks website: Sketch Maps view
Torn Tracks website: Chronology view
Torn Tracks: Enerhaugen: site-sensitive sound works and an artist book made around the Enerhaugen neighborhood in Oslo (2021) // Photo: Tor Simen Ulstein
Torn Tracks artist books: 3 artist books made between 2019-2023
Torn Tracks performance for Vestlandsutstillingen at Kunstgarasjen, Bergen, 2019
Torn Tracks performance at Hildelund Konstfestival, 2018 // Photo: Ase Brunborg Lie
Launch Torn Tracks website at Visningsrommet USF, 2017
Torn Tracks is supported by:
BEK
Kulturrådet
Bergen Municipality
Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond