Struer Tracks #3 catalogue

20. AUGUST — 5. SEPTEMBER 2021
SONIC
LANDSCAPES

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SPONSORS
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EDITORIAL
In 2016 we started dreaming of a major sound art festival every other year
in Struer’s urban space, the idea was to learn as we go and after holding the
biennial the first few times, we could see the potential and its path for the
future.
The sound art and biennial format first had to be tested, developed and
eventually find its legs. We had to make several different ’tracks’.
As always, reality crashes in and nobody could have foreseen the challenges
we have faced since the Corona pandemic announced its arrival. It’s not a
simple task to prepare an international art event in a period of a lockdown.
Today, I’m proud of what we, the team have achieved together, with artists
and partners in and outside Struer, I’m delighted to finally be on the threshold
of a new edition of Struer Tracks - this time with Charlotte Bagger Brandt as
its principal curator.
Struer Tracks # 3 is titled Sonic Landscapes. The participating artists
have worked with moods, atmospheres, stories, memories, sounds and
imaginations that are connected to different places in Struer.
The works evoke fleeting atmospheres, sensory impressions and life forms
that hide right behind the obvious: in our bodies, in sewers, under the surface
of the Limfjord or behind the facades of the old industrial harbor.
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PARTNERS
Struer Tracks would like to extend a big thank you to our many partners that have made
this sound art biennale possible: Alpha Offshore, Global Wind Academy, Struer Energi,
Ulefos, Kurbad Limfjorden, Brian Højhus, Hedeselskabet, Nordvestjysk Fjordkultur, Siloen,
Talent Vests Show Up, Sound Hub Denmark, Sound Art Lab, Struer Museum, Struer
Bibliotek, Harman, Struer Turistforening, Grand Hotel Struer, Det Jyske Kunstakademi,
Det Jyske Musikkonservatorium, Arhus Billedkunstcenter, Billedkunstnernes Forbund,
Apollon, Spor Festival, Conformo, Content Crew, Kunsthal Regelbau 411, Nordic Podcast
Academy etc.
The 2021 Struer Tracks biennial has also been created with a number of
strong partnerships we would like to thank and acknowledge. Together with
Kunsthal Regelbau 411, we have created a special exhibition with young art
students, we will also hold the Nordic Podcast Conference in association
with the Nordic Podcast Academy, together with Siloen and Talent Vests
Show Up we will hold OFF TRACK, together with Aarhus University we hold
the summer school Sounding City, together with Sound Art Lab and Sound
Hub Denmark we will hold workshops, symposiums and much more.
The partnership programs are independent and aimed at different target
groups, together they contribute to creating a broad and inclusive program
over 16 days in Struer with a focus on sound, art and the urban space.
Welcome to the third edition of Struer Tracks. I hope you will discover that
we’ve found our legs in these difficult times.
Jacob Kreutzfeldt,
Biennale Director
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CONTENTS
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CURATORIAL
STATEMENT
Sonic Landscapes
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KNOWLEDGE
Symposium and
the Nordic Podcast
Conference
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OPENING EVENT
Official opening of
Struer Tracks #3
EXHIBITION
Artists and works
SPECIAL
EXHIBITIONS
Regelbau 411 and
Sounding Cities
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OFF TRACK
A Youth
environment at the
harbor, created by
the youth - for the
youth
ARTICLE
”It’s weird what art
can be”
SOUND ART LAB
Workshop for art
and sound
In the meeting between
the artists knowledge,
their aesthetic grip and
the local understanding
and experiences,
something very special
arises
- Charlotte Bagger Brandt, Curator
WHATS
HAPPENING
STRUER TRACKS
REWIND
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Program overview
tours, concerts, etc
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Permanent works
from Struer Tracks
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CURATORIAL STATEMENT
Sound generates spaces and calls forth memories. Sound interferes
with time, place and space to establish connections between what
we see, and what we remember. Between the spaces we are in, and
the spaces that no longer exists – or those that exists far away. The
capacity of sound to amplify, investigate and open up to different
ways of experiencing the world, the psycho-geography of sound, is
the focus of this third version of the Struer Tracks biennale.
The title of this year’s biennale is Sonic Landscapes, and it aims at
retelling and adding new layers to the public space by inviting audience
to move through these landscapes of Struer in new ways, where the
immediacy of the sonic works will trigger memories and emotions.
The invited artists dive into different local stories and places, and open
them up with sound, by establishing new sonic landscapes in wellknown
environments.
We live in an image-oriented time, where the sense of sight is prioritized
above other bodily senses – yet listening and smelling seems to hit
us more immediately and directly, right in the diaphragm, making us
sense the world before our eyes take over.
Struer Tracks is a biennale that takes place in public space, and for
this third edition the curator has selected the harbor as its venue.
The harbor is a special place, where the city clings on to the Limfjord,
where you may discover pockets of nature and water, raw industry,
old warehouses, ships and boats – in many ways the city of Struer
is a product of the water, which makes the harbor an interesting
venue for the biennale. Another special focus is local narratives and
collaborations between artists and people in Struer. This means that
apart from diving into the many layers of Struer in research and in
works –architectural, cultural historical, social and personal – all artists
will collaborate with local resources and gain from local knowledge
in one way or another. In the meeting between artist’s knowledge
and aesthetic approaches and the knowledge and experience of local
citizens something special will inevitably arise.
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OPENING EVENT
Struer Tracks opens with a party in the square around the ‘Info Center’
(Brobuerne by Byens Plads), everyone is welcome, lets meet up and be
inspired.
Meet the Struer Tracks’ artists, the team behind the biennale, and all the many
people who have contributed to Struer Tracks # 3.
Program:
4.30pm
5.00pm
5.30pm
6.00pm
7.30pm
Launch of Kaffe Mathews Sonic Bicycles with the
composition The weather is present
Official opening of Struer Tracks # 3: Sonic Landscapes
The Main speaker: Mayor of Struer Niels Viggo Lynghøj.
Premiere of the choral work Rejse som lys der blir
ved. The work is preformed by a mobile loudspeaker
orchestra, in and around the urban space.
Composer: Anders Lauge Meldgaard
Performed by Koret Klang
Lyrics: Amalie Smith
Communal dining: Fish cakes, mussels, etc.
Free food –until we run out. Drinks can be purchased.
Performance by Ragnhild May:
It Ended With Silver Balloons.
This is an outdoor event, so remember appropriate attire.
Charlotte Bagger Brandt/Råderum,
Curator
We want to minimize the risk of spreading Coronavirus at this event. We encourage all
participants to follow the National Board of Health’s general advice to prevent infection,
including keeping distance and responsible hygiene measures, dispensers with hand
sanitizer alcohol will be available.
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EXHIBITION
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ARTISTS AND WORKS
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ARENDSE KRABBE
subsurface soundscapes s. 9
JANA WINDEREN
Listening with Mussles s. 10
ANDERS LAUGE MELDGAARD
Rejse som lys der blir ved s. 15
JULIANA HODKINSON
Future Unreal s. 16
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RAGNHILD MAY
Aeolian Pavillon s. 11
KAFFE MATTHEWS
The weather is present s. 12
SE BYEN VERTIKALT
Breathing from the ground up s. 17
THE REALM OF IN-BETWEEN
Special Exhibitions s. 19
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VINYL -TERROR & -HORROR
Broken telephone s. 13
BRANDON LABELLE
The Freedom Room s. 14
SOUNDING CITY
Special Exhibitions s. 20
ARTISTS AND WORKS
(The exhibitions are open every day from
10 am to 6 pm)
1) Arendse Krabbe - subsurface soundscapes
Østergade 29 + along Syd- and Østkajen, Struer Harbor
PERFORMANCE
(see times on pages 23-24)
7) Anders Lauge Meldgaard - Rejse som lys der blir ved
The concert will take place at T. W. Jensens Plads
2) Jana Winderen - Listening with Mussles
Molehuset, by Ved Fjorden 8
7) Juliana Hodkinson - Future Unreal
The concert will take place at T. W. Jensens Plads
3) Ragnhild May - Aeolian Pavillon
Vrald Odde, in extension of Vraldvej
8) Se Byen Vertikalt - Breathing from the ground up
Vraldvej on Vrald Odde
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4) Kaffe Mathews - The weather is present
Byens Plads, Fjordvejen
5) Vinyl -Terror & -Horror - Broken telephone
Sydkajen 2 at Struer Harbor
6) Brandon LaBelle - The Freedom Room
Østkajen 4 at Struer Harbor
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Struer Track Info centre
SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS
A)The realm of in-between
Regelbau 411, Hovedvejen 1, 7790 Thyholm
B) Sounding City
Brobuerne, next to Struer Tracks Info center
C) OFF TRACK
Østkajen 2 at Struer Harbor

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ARENDSE KRABBE (DK)
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JANA WINDEREN (NO)
Arendse Krabbe is a visual artist working with
sound, video, performance, text, collective
readings and listening situations. Through
her artistic practice, she explores hidden
structures and unheard voices from humans,
other species and unknown dimensions.
Arendse uses listening as a tool that engages
the listener in the world. To listen without
judging or analyzing, and to experience how
the sounds pass through body and mind. In
this way, listening can create new insights
and communities across species, systems,
boundaries and dimensions.
Jana Winderen is a Norwegian sound
artist, and works with the different sound
environments that exist in the world around
us. Her works allow the audience to listen to
creatures that are usually difficult for humans
to access, both physically and audibly: deep
under water, inside ice or in frequency ranges
that cannot be heard by the human ear.
Winderen uses sound and listening to focus
on important issues and questions in relation
to the state of health of the environment
around us.
subsurface soundscapes
Listening with Mussels
With subsurface soundscapes, Arendse has
created a site-specific sound work for Struer,
which focuses on the hidden systems that
maintain the city and the people who live in
it.
The work consists of three elements: a
specially designed sewer cover, a sound work
in five parts composed of sound recordings
from intestines and sewers to be heard from
sewer covers at five locations at Struer harbor,
and a listening situation where participants
experience sounds that make the nervous
system relax and triggers digestion.
The work has digestion as a consistent
thematic figure, and points to the vital
organic processes that often take place
unnoticed. By working with the city’s hidden
systems; the public sewers, water drainage
and wastewater treatment plants, the piece
points to the idea of the city as a body and
the analogy between the city’s and human
being’s inner digestive systems.
Arendse recording sounds at the harbor
With Listening with mussels, Winderen has
created an intimate listening experience in
the small black wooden house at the far end
of the long pier. Surrounded by water on
almost every side, the trip out there creates a
small mental journey, away from the city and
into the landscape it’s all about.
The piece is composed of field recordings
from inaccessible places deep in the sea
and under the Limfjord surface. The listener
gets the opportunity to hear the remarkable
sounds of the Limfjord mussels just as they
awaken from winter hibernation and begin
their search for food particles.
The piece points to the biological and
ecological connections that exist between us,
and the water we live beside. So, sink down,
have a listen and experience life as a mussel,
deep under water.
The small house at the pier
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RAGNHILD MAY (DK)
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KAFFE MATHEWS (UK)
Ragnhild May works with sound art,
performance, sculpture and installation.
Through her work, she explores acoustic
phenomena and their impact on the human
sensory system and cultural role. May’s
approach is playful, experimental and full of
humor. She often draws on existing historical
theories about music and technological
inventions and instruments, where the
boundaries between man and machine, work
and tools, materiality and idea are blurred.
Ragnhild is also known for her work with her
characteristic, self-built flute instruments.
Kaffe Matthews is a British composer, sound
artist and musician. In her electroacoustic
compositions and live performances, she
works with a large number of parameters
including space, data, things and place. The
physical and tactile aspect of the music
experience is central to her work. Thus, she has
invented a range of new listening interfaces
such as the Sonic armchair, Sonic bed and
Sonic bike, that enable new approaches to
composition as well as creating immediate
ways into the world of unfamiliar sound and
music for the audience.
Aeolian Pavillon
The weather is present
Vrald Odde, in extension of Vraldvej
Aeolian Pavillon is a reinterpretation of the
pavilion as an architectural figure, which
Ragnhild May in this piece functionally
merges with the Aeolus harp that originated
in Greece, and was particularly widespread
during the Romantic period. The resulting
structure is both, an architectural building,
and at the same time an instrument, a large
sound box that you can step into. Ragnhild
has been inspired both by speaker and boat
construction for the pavillon’s shape and
aesthetics. Built on the basis of a geometric
logic with four wind traps, each of which
vibrates a string of different lengths and
fundamental frequencies, a sound is created
of almost supernatural and ghostly overtones.
The work translates the almost constant wind
of Struer harbor into sounds that mix with
the area’s own soundscape of clattering mast
lines and whistling wind in boat houses. The 4
funnels frame the view in different directions
and visitors can experience Odden’s diverse
landscape to the sound of the wind’s evocative
music.
With The weather is present, Matthews has
created a new sonic bike composition made
specifically for Struer with The Bicrophonic
Research Institute (BRI).
The work is experienced on one of the 6
Sonic Bikes that play geo-located sounds
via mounted speakers whilst riding. The
piece takes riders in and out of new sound
experiences created through detailed studies
of life and beyond the empty buildings that
stand as sculpture through the old harbor.
Duration and narrative is determined by
the rider’s path, with different compositions
created through the bikes location connected
through GPS.
Riders will experience electronic compositions
blending or transforming the landscapes’
own sounds as you cycle. Choose your own
route through the mapped areas and make
your own landscape of Struer, the City of
Sound.
The Sonic bike
You can borrow a Sonic bike at the
information center at Brobuerne by
handing in your ID as a deposit.
Bicycles can be borrowed by anyone
aged 15 and up, free of charge.
Opening hours 10-18
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VINYL -TERROR & -HORROR (DK)
Vinyl -terror & -horror is a collaboration
between Danish artists Camilla Sørensen
and Greta Christensen. Both live and work
in Berlin. Working in the interplay between
music and visual arts they investigate the
relationship between sound and object.
Since the 00s the duo has worked with
sculptural manipulations of hi-fi equipment in
their combined artistic practice. By cutting
up, rearranging and timing hi-fi equipment,
music, sounds, objects, stories and more,
they assemble a narrative that always refers
back to the medium playing it or the certain
situation in which it is presented.
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BRANDON LABELLE (US)
Brandon LaBelle is an artist, author and
theorist, born in Los Angeles and living
in Berlin. His artistic work explores issues
of social and cultural life using sound,
performance, text and site-specific
constructions. This results in projects that
create interventions in the public space. In
this way, the artwork becomes part of the
surroundings, for example in the form of a
political action or through art projects that
translate into social work.
Broken telephone
Broken telephone is a site-specific sound
installation created for the red warehouse.
Fragments of impressions from the harbor
transform into a fictional abstract narrative
told through objects, actions and sound. Here,
stories about the harbor, both the fictional ones
based on scrap, deck tracks, etc., and stories
from the people that use the harbor’s, are
woven in and out of each other. The speakers
appear as distinctive characters, each with
their aesthetic expression and personality.
Sound waves oscillate through the installation,
distorted step by step. In interplay with a
reel-to-reel tape recorder and a fishing rod,
they perform the familiar whispering game,
where all the recognizable seeps out and new
meanings emerge. The installation becomes a
hub of stories about the port’s functions now
and through time, and opens up the thoughts
for all the things that happen here without us
knowing.
The Freedom Room
The Freedom Room is an installation based on the anarchic environment that often exists around
music clubs and venues. These sanctuaries are typically found in abandoned buildings, hidden
and a little dirty. Here you can enter a zone with space for alternative social behavior, intimate
relationships and individual expressions. Through his artistic research work, Brandon explores
the club as a free space to experiment with new identities.
During Struer Tracks, Brandon, together with
Struer’s local youth, will cultivate an anarchist
energy and create a free space in the harbor’s
raw atmosphere.
The installation utilizes and transforms the
industrial environment and creates an artistic
space where visitors can hang out, watch
and listen to audio and video material as well
as other research material. The installation
will also be active through a number of
public events where local bands and DJs can
perform.
The work has been created in collaboration with
Bang & Olufsen’s development department.
The red warehouse and production
Under the silo at the industrial harbor
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ANDERS LAUGE MELDGAARD (DK)
Anders Lauge Meldgaard is a multiinstrumentalist
and composer. He works in a wide field
of musical expressions, from modern
compositional music to free improvisation,
sound installations, electronic music,
songwriting set in orchestral midi collages
and noisy works for electric guitar sextet.
He uses the tension between composition
and improvisation as a motivating force for
his musical creations. Anders is a trained
saxophonist from the Rhythmic Music
Conservatory in Copenhagen, self-taught
composer and part of the artist-run music
platform and record company År & Dag.
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JULIANA HODKINSON (UK)
Juliana Hodkinson is a British composer
working with vocal, orchestral, instrumental
and electronic music. Her works often arise in
the interplay between abstract concepts and
social relations where different sound sources
such as sound recordings, foley sound and
ripped media are incorporated. Through her
work, she explores how the materials, contexts
and associations of sound interact with one
another. Juliana is an associate professor of
composition at the Jutland Conservatory of
Music and recently elected chairwoman of
the Danish Composers’ Society.
Rejse som lys der blir ved
Future Unreal
With Rejse som lys der blir ved, Meldgaard has composed a new piece in dialogue with the
choir Klang from Holstebro. The focal point is the air between us, what we share and what
binds us together socially and physically.
The choir Klang
The text is written by author Amalie Smith,
about the air we breathe and share. The
air can carry a lot of things, pictures, if you
enunciate a poem, or aerosols, the tiny water
particles from our saliva that float around in
the air. In an age of corona mutations and
face masks, this theme is more relevant than
ever.
The piece is based on vocal recordings of
the choir and will be performed by a mobile
speaker orchestra in the public space. You
can experience the concert around the center
of Struer during Struer Tracks.
See program for concert times. (s. 23)
With Future Unreal, Hodkinson is presenting
a new piece composed for and with the local
choir Side by Side and their conductor Sisse
Skovbakke. The piece has evolved online,
week by week, during the pandemic without
the choir, conductor and composer being
able to meet. In place of real-life collaboration
and rehearsal, and exploration of site-specific
roots, the choir has contributed text through
answering questions about their hopes and
fears for the coming time, and the highs
and lows of their local neighbourhood.
Tonal movements and textual fragments
mix together, and new connections and
contexts erupt when the choir performs in
changing constellations around the urban
space, blurring the boundaries between
performance space and public space. You
can experience the performance in Struer
during Struer Tracks.
See program for concert times. (s. 23)
Side by Side
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#Udstillinger
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SE BYEN VERTIKALT (UK/DK/IL)
Breathing from the ground up
Se Byen Vertikalt is an artist trio that has
existed since 2017 and consists of dancers and
choreographers Mette Møller Overgaard and
Esther Wrobel, and sound artist and composer
David Navndrup Black. In their work with
sound, movement and architecture, they turn
the city’s spaces upside down and challenge
the audience to interact differently in relation
to the city’s sounds and architectural spaces.
The artists work together in different
constellations and on their own as workshop
leaders, creators, and performers.
Breathing from the ground up is a physical sound walk created especially for Struer Harbor.
The performance is an interplay of vertical dance, sound art and a participatory experience.
Through sound and movement, the audience is invited to experience the architecture at Struer
Harbor in a completely new way. The piece transforms the raw harbor into a magical scene by
focusing on the potential of the place itself, its sounds and atmosphere.
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STRUER TRACKS REWIND
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SOUND ART ENTERS
PEOPLE, WHETHER THEY
WANT IT OR NOK.
FOR SOME IT BRINGS
AN EXPERIENCE, AND FOR
OTHERS IT WILL SURELY
SEEM DISRUPTIVE.
SOUND IS A GREAT TOOL
TO SET THE IMAGINATION
IN MOTION, TO PAINT
INNER IMAGES AND
MOODS - AND TO
INSPIRE
Christian skjødt Hasselstrøm:
The Receiver (2019)
The audience becomes an active participant,
through instructions conveyed via wireless
headphones. During the performance, the
audience is invited to feel the surroundings
on their own body and meet artists who walk,
dance and move in and out of the industrial
architecture.
Feel your senses get sharpened when Struer
harbor is brought to life in a completely new
way. Slow down, take a deep breath and sink
into the experience.
Costume design: Inbal Lieblich
Experience the physical sound
walk. See program p. 24
(instructions in danish)
Rehearsals on the silo
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STRUER TRACKS STAGES
THE HARBOUR AND THE
ARTISTS CREATE NEW
LAYERS OF STORIES
THROUGH THEIR
ARTWORKS.
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Photo: Lise Johansson
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#Special exhibitions
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SOUNDING CITY
(special exhibitions)
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REGELBAU 411
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THE REALM OF IN-BETWEEN (special exhibitions)
As part of Struer Tracks, Regelbau 411 will
present the group exhibition THE REALM OF
IN-BETWEEN with students from the Jutland
Academy of Fine Arts and the Danish Institute
for Electronic Music.
Regelbau 411 focuses on the ability of sound to
transform, expand, amplify and interpret the
relationship between our physical and mental
spaces.
The unique location of this art space forms the
framework for five site-specific works, with sound
as the central point, creating connections between
our inner spaces - defined by our thoughts, ideas
and dreams, and the outer connections - defined
by our physical surroundings.
The focal point of the exhibition is the audible
world and the special ability of sound to create
links between the physical present body, and
our collective and individual memories and the
recollections with the threads to the past, present
and future.
The exhibition is the culmination of a longer
discourse, where the invited artists from DJK
and DIEM have investigated and questioned the
potential of sound and the geographically bound
qualities of the surroundings as a starting point
for the artistic work.
The exhibition THE REALM OF IN-BETWEEN
opens with this year’s Struer Tracks and has
been created in collaboration between Regelbau
411, Struer Tracks, Sound Art Lab, the Jutland
Academy of Fine Arts and the Danish Institute
for Electronic Music.
The exhibition is curated by Matilde Best and
Simon Thykjær.
Participating artists
Benjamin Asger Krog Møller, Livia Bruun
Pezzot & Andrea Mailund Glahn, Veronika
Nielsen & Amalie Götz, August Norborg
and Christian Stenbro.
Opening: 20th of August 2021, at 2pm.
Exhibition period: 20th of August -
10th of September 2021.
Address: Hovedvejen 1, 7790 Thyholm
Opening hours: Every day from 10am - 5pm.
Regelbau 411 has free admission.
There are daily trains between Struer and
Oddesund Nord station.
(The station is approx. 600 meters from
Regelbau 411)
A big thank you to the Danish Arts
Foundation, The Nordic Culture Fund, The
Obel Family Foundation, Faerch Foundation,
Region Midtjylland and Struer - Lydens By for
supporting the exhibition.
In the period leading up to the biennial, a group of
summer school students from Aarhus University
visited the site of Struer Tracks.
These students were part of the workshop
‘Sounding City’ - Sonic interventions for
liveable urban spaces. They have worked with
questions about sound, urban space and public
participation. Over a two-week work stay in
Struer, the students developed concepts and
created prototypes for how sound and listening
can activate different places in Struer. The result
of their work can be experienced in the bridge
arch at Lydens Have (behind the town hall).
The course was organized by Marianne Huang
and Nanna Hauge Kristensen in collaboration
with Struer Tracks and Sound Art Lab.
Before the excursion to Struer, the students
have been introduced to theories within sound
studies, urban studies, design thinking and much
more, while during the visit, they have had the
opportunity to follow the effort of creating a part
of Struer Tracks’ exhibition.
Opening: 20th of August 2021, at 2.00pm.
Exhibition period: 20th of August –
5th of September 2021.
Opening hours: Every day from 10am – 6pm.
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WHATS HAPPENING
// GUIDED TOURS
Each weekend during the biennial you can take part in one of our free public tours. School classes, groups
and associations can book private free tours. For more information write to: nicole@soundartlab.org
Public tours:
Every Saturday and Sunday during Struer Tracks.
On these days at 10.30am you can participate in a free tour with an
art guide. Tour Duration: 1 to 2 hours.
Where: We meet at Brobuerne at Byens Plads, Fjordvejen
When: 21st - 22nd and 28th - 29th of August and 4 - 5. of September
at 10.30am.
Schools:
As a teacher, you can book a special tour for your class, which will
be organised for that specific grade level.
Where: We meet at Brobuerne at Byens Plads, Fjordvejen
When: 23rd – 27th and 30th of August and 1st – 3rd of September
at 9am and 1pm
Groups and associations:
Struer Tracks offers specially designed tours for associations and
groups. Together we can find a suitable time and duration.
The tours are free.
Where: We meet at Brobuerne at Byens Plads, Fjordvejen
When: Agreed upon booking
// INSPIRATION LIBRARY
The Inspiration Library is open for curious kids and adults in the public library’s opening hours.
Here you will find books, sounds, photos, objects and more
which have all inspired the nine artists in the development
of their art for this years Struer Tracks. Here you can explore
and immerse yourself in the material to get a different
insight into the thoughts and processes behind the artworks
created for Struer harbor.
Where: Struer Library, Smedegade 7
When: 20th of August until the 5th of September, in
library opening hours.
// WALK ’N’ TALKS
Hear the artists in conversation with professionals and local collaborators. The conversations take place as
Walk’n’talks - informal conversations about the works, the local collaborations and sound art in the urban
space. The conversations take place in Danish.
Art & the sewer:
Arendse Krabbe in conversation with Thomas Sørensen,
project manager within wastewater at Struer Energi.
What is it like to work with an artist?
What does it mean for the work that the artist has professionals
from alternate fields that want to contribute to a project?
Where: Meeting place is at the info center in Brobuerne, Fjordvejen
When: Sunday 22nd of August at 2pm
Acoustics & art:
Artist Ranghild May in conversation with Jakob Dyreby,
acoustic engineer, from Bang & Olufsen.
What does it mean for art, that professionals make their
expertise available?
Where: Meeting place is at the info center in Brobuerne, Fjordvejen
When: Sunday 5th of September at 12.30
Sound, body and urban space:
Mette Møller Overgaard from Se Byen Vertikalt in conversation
with Helle Starch, architect, Struer Municipality, and Søren
Kristensen, architect and founding partner of LABLAND.
What’s it like to use the cities space as a stage?
How can dance be used to explore urban space?
Where: Meeting place at the info center in Brobuerne, Fjordvejen
When: Saturday the 21st of August at 2pm
Local collaborations in art:
Vinyl terror & horror in conversation with Kresten Krab-
Bjerre, Bang & Olufsen.
How does collaboration between artists and B&O work?
What does a company like B&O get out of this type of
collaboration?
Where: Meeting place is at the info center in Brobuerne, Fjordvejen
When: Saturday 21st of August at 4pm
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// CONCERTS
Experience concerts that expands traditional choral music, incorporates urban space and audience and
challenge the senses with a sound universe that provokes and invites reflection.
Rune Søchting, curator for choir works
During early development of the program for Struer Tracks #3 the idea
emerged to present a program of new music works that – just like the
installations – complied with the principles of public art and site-specificity.
Following this starting point, projects based on the strong culture for choir
that exists in and around Struer were developed. As a result two new works
have been written for and in dialogue with local choirs.
Choirs have existed in various forms throughout history. In the Greek tragedy the choir is a voice
that comments on the action on stage. In this way the choir represents the voice of the community
that reflects on what is happening. In various ways the choir works presented during Struer Tracks
can also be said to reflect our current situation. Particularly the fact that the works have been
developed during a pandemic where the possibility for collective activities have been restricted.
It is with a certain sense of pride that Struer Tracks presents two new works for choirs written by
the composers Anders Lauge Medlgaard and Juliana Hodkinson. In various ways, the two works
explore both the idea of the choir and in what way one can be a choir. Firstly, it has been part of the
circumstance to adapt to new ways of practicing and working. Secondly, the works explore limits.
The composers have played with the limits that separates audience from performer, stage-space
from performance space. Finally, there has been an exploration of ways to integrate technology as
part of the two works.
These artistic experiments reflect a unique and difficult situation but are at the same time suggestions
to how one can meet around the idea of a choir in Struer anno 2021.
Future Unreal:
The choral work Future Unreal, composed
by Juliana Hodkinson and performed in
collaboration with the local choir Side by Side
and choir leader Sisse Skovbakke. Read more
about Juliana and the work on page 16.
// PERFORMANCES AND EXPERIENCES
Experience Struer Tracks’ artists performing their works throughout the city and become a part of the
work itself.
Se Byen Vertikalt:
Experience ’Se Byen Vertikal’s’ physical sound walk Breathing from
the ground up created specifically for Struer Harbor.
Read more on page 17.
Where: By the boat houses, Vraldvej 12A, Struer.
When: 20th of August 1.00pm and 3.30pm
21st of August 11.00am and 4.30pm
22nd of August 11.00pm and 4.30pm
2nd of September 4.30pm
4th of September 11.00am and 4.30pm
Sonic Bicycles
Create your own soundscape of Struer, the City of Sound, take a
ride on the sonic bike and hear Kaffe Matthew’s work ‘The weather
is present’. Duration and composition are determined by the rider’s
path. Read more on page 12. You can borrow a Sonic bike by handing
in your ID as a deposit at the Struer Tracks info center. Bicycles can
be borrowed by anyone aged 15 and up, completely free.
Where: Struer Tracks info center at Brobuerne, Fjordvejen
When: 20th of August – 5th of September between 10am and 6pm.
Guided bike ride
Bring your own bike, or borrow one of the sonic bikes and go on a
group bike ride around downtown Struer and the harbor area.
Artist Kaffe Matthews takes you on their favourite audio routes
around town. Registration not required.
Where: Struer Tracks info center at Brobuerne, Fjordvejen
When: 21st of August at 10am
Where: T. W. Jensens Plads
When: 28th and 29th of August at 12pm
Rejse som lys der blir ved:
Rejse som lys der blir ved is a choral work created
for Struer Tracks by Anders Lauge Meldgaard,
composed in dialogue with Koret Klang from
Holstebro, and with lyrics written by author
Amalie Smith. Read more about Anders and the
work on page 15.
Where: T. W. Jensens Plads
When: 20th of August at 5.30pm and 21st of
August at 12pm and 5th of September at 12pm
Listening event in Kurbad Limfjorden
In the quiet surroundings of Kurbad Limfjorden, with a beautiful
view of the water, participants are invited to a relaxing listening
event, where collected leaves and other organic material are used
as instruments in a soft composition. The sound universe has an
”earthly” character, which many have experience as a calming and
pleasing effect. The listening event is part of the work subsurface
soundscapes by sound artist Arendse Krabbe and will prove to help
make the nervous system relax and start the body’s digestion.
Read more about the work on p. 9.
Where: Kurbad Limfjorden, Ved Fjorden 6A
When: Monday the 23rd of August at 2pm to 3pm
Registration: At info@struertracks.dk (Limited number of places)
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// EXPERIENCE ART ON A LOCAL TOUR
Get a unique experience with guided tours to venues around Struer, such as B&O, Venø and Regelbau 411.
This event requires registration. Read more and book your experience at struertracks.dk/events
// SYMPOSIUM: Sound art in the public space
This symposium proposes to open up a discussion about sound art in public spaces with a focus on the
meaning and effect of sound art in a site-specific context as well as on the creation of the works themselves.
Tour of B&O:
A unique experience in Struer. Guided tour of Bang & Olufsen’s Innovation
Lab and factory as well as the Bang & Olufsen exhibition at Struer Museum.
Kresten Krab Bjerre from B&O talks about the collaboration between B&O
and Struer Tracks. Breakfast is included.
Where: Meeting place at Bang & Olufsen, Bang and Olufsen Allé 1, Struer
When: 26th and the 31st August at 10am
Sound art and oysters:
Join us on an exclusive trip to Venø, where we will taste the world famous
Limfjord oyster at Venø Seafood, which are served at several of the country’s
top Michelin restaurants. Finish at Venø Kro with a sumptuous seafood dish.
Where: Meeting place at Struer harbor by the Amplified Views sculpture
When: 27th of August and 3rd of September at 9am
// OFF TRACK
OFF Track:
OFF TRACK is an event that takes place under Struer Tracks
created by the youth - for the youth, with a three-day program
that offers music, concerts, dance, theater, film, visual arts,
design, literature and exciting workshops. OFF TRACK aims to
cultivate the youth community, but it is also open to all.
Read more and see the full program:
campofftrack
Where: Østkajen 2, Struer Harbour
When: 26th – 28th of August
Ferry trip to the special exhibition at Regelbau 411:
Take Denmark’s oldest car ferry from Struer Harbor to Oddesund and
experience sound art in an old bunker. The trip also offers a taste experience
in the form of oysters and champagne, as well as a delicious lunch with the
Danish classic open sandwiches.
Hvor: Meeting place at Struer harbor by the Amplified Views sculpture
When: 24th and 31st of August at 9.45am
Feel the freedom and community when OFF TRACK invites you to live culture and music, mixed with
workshops, food, and a cold beer in a comfortable urban setting.
In recent years, sound art has become more common in public space - not just in Struer, but also
around the world. At this seminar, a number of professionals in and around the sound art field
gather to exchange knowledge about sound art, outside of the ordinary exhibition spaces and
concert halls. What is the significance and effect of sound works in public spaces? How do the
works interact, interfere and reason with the physical and social framework in which they exist?
And how to create the framework for artistically experimental work with sound in public spaces?
Keynote speakers at the symposium are sound
artists Sam Auinger(DE) and Jana Winderen(NO).
The symposium will be in English.
The symposium is held by Sound Art Lab in
collaboration with Struer Tracks and Sound Hub
Denmark. The symposium is supported by The
Nordic Culture Fund, Nordic Culture Point and The
Danish Arts Foundation.
Where: Sound Hub Denmark or online
When: Friday, August 27th at 10am-4pm
Registration: struertracks.dk/program
// NORDIC PODCAST CONFERENCE
Nordic Podcast Conference is Denmark’s latest forum for joint listening and discussion of podcasts. Experience
great international podcasters and get inspiration and learn more about the latest in podcasting.
Nordic Podcast Conference is Denmark’s new conference with joint listening of podcasts as well as
discussion of the content of podcasts, sound and sharing interesting ideas. There will be inspirational
presentations from some of the most innovative podcast voices in the Nordic countries, keynote
speakers from the USA and premieres of new podcasts from some of the biggest Danish names in
the genre.
Participants will be able to meet Kari Hesthamar(N) Robert Barkman(S) and Tim Hinman,
from Danish Third Ear in a discussion about the special Nordic podcast tone. An agreement has also
been made with the American Heather Li, the creator of ”It’s Nice to Hear You” - one of 2021’s most
innovative podcasts. And many more names to be announced.
Nordic Podcast Conference is organized by
Nordic Podcast Academy in collaboration
with Rakkerpak Productions, Loud, Third Ear,
Lydens By, Struer, Center for Podcasting,
Sound Hub Denmark and Struer Municipality.
Where: Apollon, Anlægsvej 4, Struer
When: August 28 at 1pm - 5pm
Registration at: struertracks.dk/program
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OFF TRACK
Feel the freedom and community when OFF TRACK invites you to
live culture and music mixed with workshops, food, and a cold beer
in an urban setting.
OFF TRACK is a 3-day event, created by the youth - for the
youth, at the border between the festival and the flourishing
young environment. Experience music, dance, theatre, film,
visual arts, design and literature in a unified community where
culture is down to earth. OFF TRACK offers workshops from all
over the world, where you can get to know new sides of yourself
- or rediscover the old ones.
OFF TRACK
26th of August - 28th of August
Østkajen 2, 7600 Struer
OFF TRACK is open to everyone.
Experience, among other things:
Thursday 26/8 Friday 27/8 Saturday 28/8
5.00pm Workshop: Dance
4.00pm Workshop: T-shirt design
6.00pm Workshop: Songwriting
with Emma Hørlyck
8.00pm Stomp with Mikkel Hebs
and Kisser
8.30pm Concert: Gustav Bjerrum
9.30pm Concert: La Oh
9.00pm Concert: Patina
La Oh
Gustav Bjerrum
Patina
The sound of youth, community and freedom:
Struer Tracks contributes to OFF TRACK with the work ”The Freedom Room” by the artist Brandon LaBelle,
who speaks directly to the youth community that is cultivated on Østkajen, where everyone is welcome to
explore and be part of the work. LaBelle’s work can be experienced in the silo on Østkajen 4 throughout
the exhibition period and also OFF TRACK in the warehouse on Østkajen 2 from 26th to 28th of August.
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full program here
OFF TRACK has been created in collaboration between Struer Library, the youth association Siloen, showUP, FGU and the Danish
Talent Academy with support from the Tuborg Foundation’s Dream Pool, Talent West, Struer Municipality’s Youth Culture Pool
and Struer Municipality.
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”Struer’s children experience
what art can be”
At Struer Library, a 5th grade class from Parkskolen
sits and listens intensely. In front of them are the
sound artists Vinyl -terror & -horror (VTH) showing
videos of their previous works.
A smoking speaker and eerie horror music create
a skewed and macabre universe that captures the
motionless students.
Behind the scary moniker are the two Danish sound
artists Greta Christensen and Camilla Sørensen.
They live in Berlin but have travelled to Struer in
connection with their work on Struer Tracks and
hold a series of school workshops.
It is one of 18 workshops happening before
and during the biennial as an offer for Struer
Municipality’s school classes, which gives students
the opportunity to learn more about contemporary
art and try out artistic processes. Apart from VTH’s
workshop, students have also created monochords,
watched artists dance from silos and have partaken
in guided tours during the festival. Everything –
totally free of charge.
This workshop is about something called “Foley
technique”. It is the sound effects we hear in
television and movies that are made afterwards,
often by things that you would not immediately
associate with what they are to express. The
understanding comes within the context.
Rice in a tin can is pouring rain and a stick of
celery that cracks is a bone that breaks. “It’s a way
to explore and invent new situations where the
objects can be used - across their actual form and
function” As Greta explains it. “It’s about showing
how important timing is in terms of meaning.”
In search of garbage
A world of possibilities opens up to portray the
surroundings in completely new ways, and that is
the students’ task today. They are divided into two
groups - boys vs. girls, who each get a film clip
which they will perform. live sound effects to.
The boys are given “Once Upon a Time In the West”,
the girls “Jurassic Park”.
Broken glass, rain and thunder are some of the
words scribbled on the girls’ list of sounds.
Some of it can be done with their own vocal cords,
others with Vinyl -terror & -horror’s props and the
last sounds, they have to find themselves around
Struer Harbor.
The girls head towards the water while the boys dig
into the pile of strange sounds that the artists have
brought with them.
The treasure is out there
“It’s fun to get out and see all the things that are just
thrown away,” says Liva, one of the students from
Parkskolen, while her eyes map out the possibilities.
She walks in the abandoned part of the harbor,
where none of the girls have been before, but they
still fearlessly start rummaging through scrap heaps
and examining abandoned bricks for good sounds.
For Greta, it is great to see the students’ commitment.
“We want the children to experience the place in a
new way. They need to find things that tell a different
story than the one they are found in or what they
are usually used for.” she explains.
Because suddenly, an empty beer bottle and a pile
of gravel are seen as a possibility, and there are loud
complaints that there is no good trash to be found -
at least not the kind that make the right noises.
Luckily, the treasure is out there, an abandoned
piece of greenery hiding a long, rusty chain, and all
sorts of things a sound artist in the making could
dream of. It is all collected and dragged back.
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WORKSHOP FOR SCHOOLS
Art can be many things
At the library, the girls practice finding the right
sounds. The timing has to be just right, so it fits with
the film clip.
Both teams take a seat in front of the projector and
perform with metal objects that are pushed down
from stools, plastic bucket drums, long grass that is
whipped and all the other gold that has been found.
As smiles spread, there is no doubt that it has been
a good break from the classroom.
“I liked to perform, scream and make dinosaur
noises” says the student, Smilla, smiling.
But have they learned anything today?
The question does not even have time to be asked
before it is met by a resounding “YES!”.
Liva elaborates: “It was fun - I didn’t even know that
art could be something like this. That trash is art. It’s
weird what art can be.”
As part of Struer Tracks, school children at all grade levels in Struer Municipality have been
offered to participate in 18 different workshops and performances, free of charge.
The students take part in and learn about the artistic processes when the artists teach in
specially designed workshop courses, based on this year’s works.
Workshops and performances are held both in connection with the preparations for the
artworks and during the biennial itself.
School classes are also offered free guided tours and transport is offered for schools located
outside Struer town.
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SOUND ART LAB
Sound Art Lab is a center for artistic
development, established in B&O’s former
administration building, at Peter Bangsvej 17B
in Struer.
Sound Art Lab attracts Danish and foreign
artists who work professionally with sound. SAL
offers professional sound studios, workshops,
studios and many other facilities, in addition
to a strong professional network in the City of
Sound, and will assist users in creating highquality
art.
enthusiasts in the field of sound, including the
Radio Amateur Association OZ3EDR.
In the autumn of 2021, Sound Art Lab will house
two resident artists who have been selected
on the basis of an international open call in
collaboration with the Danish arts council. The
artists will work on their own projects in and
around SAL over 3 months. The works or its
progress will be experienced along the way
with presentations, lectures, open studios and
much more.
SAL will also offer tuition to local and regional
schools. With dedicated teaching laboratories,
a framework has been created for innovative
teaching with a focus on sound, listening and
art. SAL is also home to local associations and
Sound Art Lab was established by Struer
Municipality and is developed in collaboration
with Sound Hub Denmark, Bang & Olufsen,
Harman, Struer Tracks Biennale, Kunsthal
Regelbau 411 and others,
From this point on, the work of design and
technology will be replaced with sound and art,
as now the former B&O administration building
forms the framework for the production of
sound art, professional knowledge sharing and
innovative teaching within sound.
The Sound Art Lab is equipped with 4 sound
studios with professional equipment for
recording and editing everything from stereo,
surround and multi-channel works, and has
been created with generous support from the
Færchfonden and Harman.
// THE OPENING WEEKEND
Friday, August the 27th 2021 at 4pm Sound Art
Lab officially opens its doors to the public, and is
open all weekend to the public.
The opening event begins with speeches and
refreshments, after which the (open reel) tape
for the brand-new facilities will be cut by Mayor
Niels Viggo Lynghøj.
The opening weekend is held in collaboration
with the Radio Amateur Association OZ3EDR,
which has already moved into the facilities at
Sound Art Lab - where the association’s activities
began 75 years ago. Take a look inside - see, hear
and experience a little snippet of the life that will
unfold in the building in the future. Throughout
the weekend, you can experience the new sound
studios, workshops and studios, also you can
visit the radio amateurs in their new premises.
Experience, among other things, the OZ3EDR
mobile transmitter at Struer Harbor, hear sound
artist Christian Skjødt Hasselstrøm talk about
his work with the work Radar til Regelbau 411,
find radio gold at the Radio Amateur Association
OZ3EDR’s flea market, participate in a sound art
workshop for children and much more.
To see the full program, visit:
Website www.soundartlab.org
soundartlab
soundartlab_dk
Address: Sound Art Lab, Peter Bangsvej 17B
Official opening: Friday 27th of August at 4pm – 6pm
Open house: 28th and the 29th of August at 10 – 4pm
Together with various partners Sound Art
Lab offers residencies with stays in Struer for
shorter or longer periods of time.
Residencies can be applied for on an open call
basis, and all applications will be assessed by a
committee of experts in the field.
Sound Art Lab has teaching spaces dedicated
to sound, and offers a number of courses with
sound art as the focal point. If you represent
an educational institution and are interested in
hearing more about our educational offer, you
are welcome to contact us.
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STRUER TRACKS REWIND
Struer Tracks is a biennial of sound art in Struer’s public urban spaces. Every two
years, we create new temporary art experiences through the streets, squares, in empty
warehouses, sheds and even on the edge of silos and deep down in sewers.
Struer Tracks would also like to put more lasting tracks down.
Some of the traces from previous biennials can be found around Struer such as:
Wind & Water 2017
Wind and Water is a sound sculpture created by
Frode Gundorf Nielsen. It consists of 12 resonant
tubes with 12 tones that play melodies using
compressed air and water. The sculpture is a
permanent work that was unveiled during Struer
Tracks in 2017.
Amplified Views 2019
Amplified Views is a sculptural sound work of
aluminium created by artist Ursula Nistrup in
collaboration with Bang & Olufsen.
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A TRACK AFTER STRUER TRACKS 2021
In 2021, we also have ambitions to leave more
lasting traces. We have already entered into
an agreement with Struer Energi that Arendse
Krabbe’s specially designed sewer cover (p. 9) will
remain after the biennial, just as Ragnhild May’s
Æolian Pavillion (p. 11), which, thanks to Sound Art
Lab, can be experienced at Vrald Odde over the
next three years.
Sketch of Aeolian Pavillon
2021 - ?
2019 - Amplified Views
2017 - Wind & Water
The sound is triggered when the audience moves
within the area of the three pillars. The sound is
created with compressed air and water, the air
pushes the water up into an acrylic pipe and the
turbulence from this is resonated in the large pipes.
Wind and water have been built in the garden
at Gimsinghoved Art and Culture Center with
support from the Danish arts council and Aarhus
2017 and in close collaboration with Struer Lydens
By and The Overheard.
Together, they have created the curved shapes
and crystallized surfaces that designate listening
spots, which focus and amplify the sounds of the
surroundings.
The Amplified Views work consists of a series of
installations around Struer Municipality. Currently,
the works can be found at the harbor in Struer and
in Klosterheden. Amplified Views is supported by
Struer Lydens By, the Danish arts council, Bang
& Olufsen, Augustinusfonden, Færchfonden and
Struer Tracks.
Back In 2020, Struer Municipality has adopted
an ambitious strategy for sound art. It is the
ambition that sound art should be a driver for
the municipality’s development, and the vision
is therefore that sound art in Struer Municipality
should be art with effect.
Struer Tracks’ temporary works have an
opportunity to experiment and try out different
artistic visions in the municipality’s public
spaces, which may develop into permanent
works and who knows, maybe in the long run
you will be able to find even more works and
sounds from Struer Tracks #3 in Struer’s urban
space?
Sketch of sewer cover
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