A SHRINE OF SACRED FEAR
‘A shrine of Sacred Fear’ was my first sound installation combining mechanical and digital elements. The piece functions as an automaton with no immediate capacity for human interaction. I didn’t want the piece to present an interface, but rather make a machine centred both physically and metaphorically around its own midpoint.
The eight brass plates enclosing the inner core function both as the main sound source of the piece, and as a kind of symbolic protection for the inner workings.
At the center a computer activates the mechanical workings, creating an enigmatic sonic experience combining digital accuracy with an acoustic vigorous performance.
The piece draws inspiration from traditional Japanese shinto shrines, in which a force or spirit can be housed in a physical object.
Using digital technology as the starting point for a simplistic ritual setting, allows for a contemporarily relevant experience created for the present instead of the past.
‘A Shrine of Sacred Fear’ discusses the use of mysticism in a modern world, fear on an individual level, as well as a romanticisation of self-indulgence.
This production was only made possible by the help of Mads Thomsen.
The piece has been exhibited and performed at; Aarhus Kunsthal, Click Festival, Kapelica, Statens Museum for Kunst And Regelbau411.