SONIC WORKS FOR SPACES & PLACES
I create site-specific sonic works based on field recordings from Nordic landscapes, combined with saxophone, voice, and electronics.
My practice explores how sound can translate place, memory, and identity into immersive listening experiences.
These works are developed for architectural spaces, exhibitions, film, and performance contexts.
Each project grows out of a particular landscape and responds to the character of the room it inhabits.
The result is not a concert, but a spatial experience where sound shapes how we perceive a place.
This is an ongoing exploration of how listening can deepen our connection to space and environment.
Warehouse building in Reyðarfjörður,
East Iceland
©Kristin Sevaldsen
SONIC EXCERPTS
These excerpts are examples of sonic material used in spatial installations and performances.
Developed from field recordings along the trail leading up to the Snøhetta Pavilion at Hjerkinn/Dovrefjell.
The intention was to recreate stillness.
Instead, it became an encounter with a tourist destination.
Tourists approaching mount Snøhetta
©Kristin Sevaldsen
Developed from field recordings from the east coast of Iceland.
Melting icicles dripping from a roof and puddles on the ground frozen into ice.
Frozen puddles
©Kristin Sevaldsen
Kristin Sevaldsen is a Norwegian composer and sound artist working with field recordings, saxophone, voice and electronics to create
site-specific sonic works for spaces, places and listening contexts.