{
"metadata": {
"title": "SLK Portfolio Projects",
"description": "Complete collection of works by Søren Lyngsø Knudsen - Sound Artist, Composer, and Electronic Music Pioneer",
"artist": "Søren Lyngsø Knudsen",
"alias": "Vectral",
"website": "https://sorenlyngso.dk",
"bandcamp": "https://vectral.bandcamp.com",
"updated": "2026"
},
"projects": [
{
"id": "mneme",
"title": "MNEME",
"collections": [
"installations-sculptures"
],
"type": "Sculptural Installation",
"year": "2026",
"materials": "Concrete, Silicone, Steel, bespoke electronics",
"description": [
"Mneme is a modular light and sound sculpture referencing early visions of artificial intelligence and the physical infrastructure of digital systems. Concrete tiles, translucent silicone, embedded LEDs and distributed electronics form a monument to machine memory.",
"The work senses human presence and responds in real time, shifting light and sound across a network of one hundred interconnected tiles. Information propagates through the structure as the system continually recalibrates itself in relation to its surroundings.",
"Photos: GFS Ørestad (Copenhagen Light Festival); Søren Lyngsø Knudsen (Regelbau 411)"
],
"videos": [
"https://youtube.com/watch?v=bYjUIDHHmkw",
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPmQhV0rRxA"
],
"images": [
{
"src": "media/IMG_2365-scaled.jpeg",
"caption": "Mneme at Regelbau 411 — columns of lit tiles along the walls of a concrete corridor"
},
{
"src": "media/IMG_2358-1920x2560.jpeg",
"caption": "Mneme at Regelbau 411 — a child reaching out to a tall column of illuminated tiles"
},
{
"src": "media/IMG_2352-scaled.jpeg",
"caption": "Mneme at Regelbau 411 — a single column of tiles glowing in the dark"
},
{
"src": "media/IMG_2361-1920x1440.jpeg",
"caption": "Mneme at Regelbau 411 — the corridor seen straight on, with a column lit on each wall"
},
{
"src": "media/5A8D406E-A23B-408C-9417-DDCAF3E0B19B_1_201_a.jpeg",
"caption": "Mneme at Copenhagen Light Festival 2026, Ørestad — the tower of red frames and concrete tiles beside a frozen canal at dusk. Photo: GFS Ørestad"
},
{
"src": "media/65CD62F9-BD84-40D5-A67E-CB977BDFB5AD_1_201_a.jpeg",
"caption": "Mneme at Copenhagen Light Festival 2026, Ørestad — the tower at dusk against apartment blocks. Photo: GFS Ørestad"
},
{
"src": "media/23D55628-A5AF-405D-9F1E-519CAF7898FD_1_201_a.jpeg",
"caption": "Mneme — close-up of illuminated concrete tiles with multicoloured LEDs. Photo: GFS Ørestad"
}
],
"exhibitions": [
{
"year": "2026",
"name": "Regelbau 411",
"venue": "Hovedvejen 1, 7790 Thyholm, DK",
"dates": "Sep 5 – Dec 6"
},
{
"year": "2026",
"name": "Copenhagen Light Festival",
"venue": "Ørestad, Copenhagen, DK",
"dates": "Jan 30 – Feb 22"
}
],
"thumb": "media/5A8D406E-A23B-408C-9417-DDCAF3E0B19B_1_201_a.jpeg"
},
{
"id": "solara",
"title": "Solara",
"collections": [
"installations-sculptures"
],
"type": "Sculptural Installation",
"year": "2025",
"materials": "Acrylic mirrors, Nuura Sasi Small, MDF, custom electronics",
"description": [
"Solara is inspired by the interplay of light and shade created by dappled sunlight. The installation mimics the sun’s movement and its gradual shift in colour temperature over the course of a day; slowly evolving patterns of light and shadow, paired with a quiet soundtrack, form a contemplative study of daylight.",
"Photos: Stine Christiansen"
],
"videos": [
"https://youtube.com/shorts/Rp8-eyEbfNE"
],
"images": [
{
"src": "media/IMG_9042.jpeg",
"caption": "Solara at 3 Days of Design, Nuura showroom 2025 — three leaning panels with oval light apertures, in warm light. Photo: Stine Christiansen"
},
{
"src": "media/IMG_9041.jpeg",
"caption": "Solara — detail of the oval apertures set in a curved, mirrored acrylic panel"
},
{
"src": "media/IMG_9043.jpeg",
"caption": "Solara — the same panels in a cool blue lighting state"
}
],
"exhibitions": [
{
"year": "2025",
"name": "3 Days of Design",
"venue": "Nuura Lighting showroom, Frederiksgade 14, 2nd floor, 1265 Copenhagen, DK",
"dates": "Jun 18 – 20"
}
]
},
{
"id": "doppler",
"title": "Doppler",
"collections": [
"installations-sculptures"
],
"type": "Sound and light sculpture",
"year": "2025",
"materials": "Mirrors, Acrylic, Aluminium, Concrete, LEDs, Speakers, Electronics",
"description": [
"Doppler is a kinetic light and sound installation concerned with movement, perception and presence. Three transparent acrylic columns house rotating double-mirrored panels lit from within, paired with directional sound; as the mirrors spin, they fragment and reflect their surroundings, casting shifting patterns of light, shadow and sound.",
"The work takes its name from the Doppler effect — a shift in wave frequency caused by motion — and examines how physical disturbance becomes signal, and how reflection, both optical and conceptual, shapes an understanding of space and self."
],
"videos": [
"https://youtube.com/watch?v=5pebH5_CoSo",
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhbgG-JTDA4"
],
"images": [
{
"src": "media/2EFBD38C-2D6C-43D9-BAB2-D8F4AA6EB0DF_1_105_c.jpeg",
"caption": "Doppler — acrylic columns on a rooftop terrace at dusk, the moon in the sky"
},
{
"src": "media/IMG_38301-1920x1440.jpeg",
"caption": "Doppler — three columns on a wooden roof terrace with the city skyline at dusk"
},
{
"src": "media/IMG_3881-1920x1440.jpeg",
"caption": "Doppler at night — three columns lit from within, one glowing warm amber"
},
{
"src": "media/5A45ADDA-D52F-4480-99B1-6577EA87B476_1_105_c.jpeg",
"caption": "Doppler — low-angle view of two columns against the dusk sky"
}
],
"exhibitions": [
{
"year": "2026",
"name": "NordArt",
"venue": "Büdelsdorf, DE",
"dates": "Jun 6 – Oct 4"
},
{
"year": "2025",
"name": "Glimt",
"venue": "Medicinhaverne, Tranekær, Langeland, DK",
"dates": "Nov 1 – Dec 14"
},
{
"year": "2025",
"name": "Sculpture by the Sea",
"venue": "Bondi to Tamarama coastal walk, Sydney, AU",
"dates": "Oct 7 – Nov 3",
"thanks": "Generously supported by KODA / The Danish Composers' Society and Knud Højgaards Fond."
},
{
"year": "2025",
"name": "O Days Festival (Winner of O Create)",
"venue": "Sønder Hoved, Refshaleøen, Copenhagen, DK",
"dates": "Jul 31 – Aug 2"
},
{
"year": "2025",
"name": "Copenhagen Light Festival",
"venue": "Filmtaget, Cinemateket, Gothersgade 55, Copenhagen, DK",
"dates": "Jan 31 – Feb 23"
}
],
"support": [
{
"name": "Cinemateket"
}
]
},
{
"id": "mneme-cube",
"title": "Mneme-cube",
"collections": [
"objects"
],
"type": "Sculptural Object",
"year": "2026",
"edition": 6,
"materials": "Concrete, silicone, electronics (light)",
"description": [
"A small-scale sculptural light piece from the series Mneme, referencing early visions of artificial intelligence.",
"Cast in concrete and animated by light, the object reflects how technology settles into permanent, physical form."
],
"images": [
{
"src": "media/mneme-cube-product-01.jpg",
"caption": "Mneme-cube — three-quarter view on a white pedestal, the concrete maze relief lit by warm amber LEDs"
},
{
"src": "media/mneme-cube-product-02.jpg",
"caption": "Mneme-cube — front face: dark concrete maze with amber light in the recesses"
},
{
"src": "media/mneme-cube-product-03.jpg",
"caption": "Mneme-cube — three-quarter view from slightly above, white silicone pins on top"
},
{
"src": "media/mneme-cube-detail-01.jpg",
"caption": "Mneme-cube — detail of the concrete maze relief with white silicone light pins"
},
{
"src": "media/mneme-cube-02.jpg",
"caption": "Mneme-cube — corner detail: concrete edge, steel screw and silicone pins"
},
{
"src": "media/mneme-cube-03.jpg",
"caption": "Mneme-cube on a pedestal, with its exhibition label"
}
],
"dimensions": "25 h × 25 w × 25 d cm",
"price": "$6,000",
"exhibitions": [
{
"year": "2026",
"name": "Sculpture by the Sea",
"venue": "Cottesloe Beach, Perth, AU"
}
]
},
{
"id": "doppler-mini",
"title": "Doppler Mini",
"collections": [
"objects"
],
"type": "Sculptural Object",
"year": "2025",
"edition": 12,
"dimensions": "57 h × 7.5 w × 7.5 d cm",
"materials": "Concrete, acrylic, polished aluminium, electronics (light and rotation)",
"price": "$4,500",
"description": [
"A scaled-down version of Doppler. The work takes its name from the Doppler effect — a shift in wave frequency caused by motion — and examines how physical disturbance becomes signal, and how reflection, both optical and conceptual, shapes an understanding of space and self."
],
"images": [
{
"src": "media/doppler-mini-product-01.jpg",
"caption": "Doppler Mini — studio shot: tall acrylic tube with warm light on a green-grey concrete base"
},
{
"src": "media/doppler-mini-01.jpeg",
"caption": "Doppler Mini at Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe 2026 — on a white pedestal with its label"
},
{
"src": "media/doppler-mini-02.jpeg",
"caption": "Doppler Mini at Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe 2026 — with exhibition label; power cable behind the pedestal"
}
],
"exhibitions": [
{
"year": "2026",
"name": "Sculpture by the Sea",
"venue": "Cottesloe Beach, Perth, AU"
},
{
"year": "2025",
"name": "Sculpture by the Sea",
"venue": "Bondi to Tamarama, Sydney, AU"
}
]
},
{
"id": "mini-o",
"title": "Ø Mini",
"collections": [
"objects"
],
"type": "Sculptural Object",
"year": "2026",
"edition": 12,
"dimensions": "27 h × 20 w × 20 d cm",
"materials": "Stainless steel, PETG, electronics (sound and light responds to proximity)",
"price": "$4,500",
"description": [
"A miniature version of Ø, presented at Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe, 2026.",
"Ø is an audiovisual installation: steel spheres emitting sound and light, examining the relationship between technology and everyday life."
],
"images": [
{
"src": "media/o-mini-product-01.jpg",
"caption": "Ø Mini — polished stainless steel sphere with a glowing red band, on a black base"
}
],
"exhibitions": [
{
"year": "2026",
"name": "Sculpture by the Sea",
"venue": "Cottesloe Beach, Perth, AU"
}
]
},
{
"id": "climate-change-smart-speakers",
"title": "Climate Change Smart Speakers",
"collections": [
"objects"
],
"type": "AI smart devices / Probe study",
"year": "2024",
"materials": "Acrylic, aluminium, copper, 3D-printed components, cork, oak, beech, speakers, electronics, custom software",
"description": [
"Smart devices account for a significant share of global energy consumption, with a corresponding impact on climate change. Climate Change Smart Speakers examines artificial intelligence’s role within that impact: whether intelligent technology can make its users more aware of pollution and climate change, and what influence a device’s sound and speech has on its listener.",
"A probe study developed as part of the research project “Vocal Imaginaries” at the IT University of Copenhagen.",
"Three probes were built, each with its own identity: an activist for climate change, a robot, and “The Voice of the Forest”.",
"Photos: Nadja Striib Sveegaard"
],
"images": [
{
"src": "media/Probes_1461-scaled.jpg",
"caption": "The three probes side by side — The Activist (green, cork), The Voice of the Forest (beige) and The Robot (clear, exposed electronics). Photo: Nadja Striib Sveegaard"
},
{
"src": "media/Aktivisten_1394-1920x2560.jpg",
"caption": "The Activist — green housing with a cork speaker face on a wooden base"
},
{
"src": "media/Aktivisten_1388_Red-1920x2560.jpg",
"caption": "The Activist — angled view"
},
{
"src": "media/Robotten_1396-1920x2560.jpg",
"caption": "The Robot — translucent housing with exposed circuit board and a copper ring"
},
{
"src": "media/Robotten_1403-1920x2560.jpg",
"caption": "The Robot — top view of the speakers and circuit board"
},
{
"src": "media/Robotten_1398-1920x2560.jpg",
"caption": "The Robot — rear view with USB port"
},
{
"src": "media/Koret-m.-hojtalere_1445-1920x2560.jpg",
"caption": "The Voice of the Forest — the central unit surrounded by four green satellite speakers"
},
{
"src": "media/Probes_1462-1920x1440.jpg",
"caption": "The three probes in a row"
}
],
"exhibitions": [
{
"year": "2025",
"name": "FemTech + Feminist Tech",
"venue": "KTH Reactor Hall, Stockholm, SE",
"dates": "Jun 4"
},
{
"year": "2025",
"name": "Particle + Wave",
"venue": "Emmedia, Calgary, CA",
"dates": "Feb – Mar"
},
{
"year": "2024",
"name": "Artificial Nature Transposium",
"venue": "Musikkens hus, Aalborg, DK",
"dates": "Dec"
},
{
"year": "2024",
"name": "Vocal Imaginaries Exhibition",
"venue": "Vegalab, Copenhagen, DK",
"dates": "Nov"
},
{
"year": "2024",
"name": "NordiCHI",
"venue": "Uppsala University, Uppsala, SE",
"dates": "Oct"
}
],
"institution": "IT-University of Copenhagen",
"support": [
{
"name": "IT University of Copenhagen",
"url": "https://itu.dk/"
},
{
"name": "Vocal Imaginaries Research Project",
"url": "https://vocal.itu.dk/"
}
],
"videos": [
"https://youtube.com/watch?v=JmckVjS-CTw",
"https://youtube.com/shorts/5iOS-Z0-SJI",
"https://youtube.com/shorts/Bh4yXdTDxj0"
]
},
{
"id": "o",
"title": "Ø",
"collections": [
"installations-sculptures"
],
"type": "Interactive sound and light sculpture",
"year": "2024",
"materials": "Stainless Steel, Polycarbonate, Speakers, Sensors, Custom software and hardware",
"description": [
"Ø is an audiovisual installation: a series of steel spheres, resembling planets or eyes, that emit sound and light in response to their surroundings. The work examines the relationship between technology and everyday life.",
"As viewers approach, their movement shapes the light and sound the spheres produce — a direct, physical illustration of how presence and technology continually shape one another.",
"Ø is the Danish word for island, evoking isolation and interconnection at once: a reminder that full detachment from one’s surroundings, digital or otherwise, is no longer possible.",
"Photos: Søren Lyngsø Knudsen; Robert Frith (Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe 2026)"
],
"videos": [
"https://youtu.be/dfTvCq8xdM0",
"https://youtu.be/jf-_05kLOLI",
"https://youtube.com/watch?v=WD2WNBMEHSI"
],
"images": [
{
"src": "media/IMG_2376-2-scaled.jpg",
"caption": "Ø at Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2024 — spheres on the coastal lawn at sunset, the beach behind"
},
{
"src": "media/IMG_2221_ed-1920x1440.jpg",
"caption": "Ø at Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2024 — spheres glowing red at night above the beach"
},
{
"src": "media/o-cottesloe-2026-robert-frith.jpg",
"caption": "Ø at Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe 2026 — mirror-polished spheres on the grass under trees. Photo: Robert Frith"
},
{
"src": "media/IMG_9957.jpeg",
"caption": "Ø at Copenhagen Light Festival 2024 — spheres with red light bands on a paved square at night"
},
{
"src": "media/IMG_9965.jpeg",
"caption": "Ø at Copenhagen Light Festival 2024, Skt. Annæ Plads — spheres lined along the pavement at night"
}
],
"exhibitions": [
{
"year": "2026",
"name": "Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe",
"venue": "Cottesloe Beach, WA, AU",
"dates": "Mar 6 – 23",
"thanks": "Generously supported by KODA / The Danish Composers' Society."
},
{
"year": "2024",
"name": "Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi",
"venue": "Bondi Beach, NSW, AU",
"dates": "Oct 18 – Nov 4",
"thanks": "Generously supported by The Friendship Society Of Denmark, Australia And New Zealand."
},
{
"year": "2024",
"name": "Copenhagen Light Festival",
"venue": "Skt. Annæ Plads, 1250 Copenhagen, DK",
"dates": "Feb 2 – 25",
"thanks": "Generously supported by The Danish Arts Foundation's Committee for Visual Arts."
}
],
"support": [
{
"name": "Hotel Skt. Annæ"
}
]
},
{
"id": "moss",
"title": "MoSS",
"collections": [
"objects"
],
"type": "Modular Smart Speaker",
"year": "2023/2024",
"materials": "3D printed case, Raspberry Pi, custom software and hardware",
"description": [
"MoSS was developed for the project “Voice as a Matter of Design: a Framework for Novel Vocal Imaginaries” at the IT University of Copenhagen.",
"MoSS is a modular smart speaker that combines the function of a voice assistant with the physicality of a modular synthesizer. Knobs, buttons and patch cables let the user manipulate synthetic voices in real time, connecting cloud services — Microsoft Azure, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Amazon Polly — to a tactile, playable interface.",
"Its transparent panels expose the electronics normally hidden inside a smart speaker, turning the device’s usual opacity into an object of open inspection."
],
"images": [
{
"src": "media/IMG_3824-scaled.jpg",
"caption": "MoSS — prototype with knobs, patch points and LEDs behind a clear front panel"
},
{
"src": "media/6D31CDDF-39D4-4692-B445-CE188E83EB40_1_105_c.jpeg",
"caption": "Three MoSS units in white, blue and grey, each with a transparent panel over the circuit board"
},
{
"src": "media/IMG_0426-1920x2560.jpeg",
"caption": "MoSS — front of the grey unit: knobs, patch points and two red controls"
},
{
"src": "media/IMG_0430-1920x2560.jpeg",
"caption": "MoSS — rear panel with XLR and USB connectors and a power switch"
},
{
"src": "media/IMG_0431-1920x2560.jpeg",
"caption": "MoSS — three-quarter view of the grey unit"
}
],
"institution": "IT-University of Copenhagen",
"exhibitions": [
{
"year": "2025",
"name": "Particle + Wave",
"venue": "Emmedia, Calgary, CA",
"dates": "Feb – Mar"
},
{
"year": "2024",
"name": "Vocal Imaginaries Exhibition",
"venue": "Vegalab, Copenhagen, DK",
"dates": "Nov"
},
{
"year": "2024",
"name": "DIS 2024",
"venue": "IT University, Copenhagen, DK",
"dates": "Jul 1 – 5"
}
],
"videos": [
"https://youtube.com/watch?v=3ihHONu5nV0",
"https://youtube.com/watch?v=6PqgiEqq8Gc"
]
},
{
"id": "under-overfladen",
"title": "Under Overfladen",
"collections": [
"installations-sculptures"
],
"type": "Sound sculpture (sketch)",
"year": "2023",
"materials": "Stainless steel, hydrophones, speaker, electronics",
"description": [
"Under Overfladen (Under the Surface) was selected for the sketch competition and exhibition “Vision I – On Water”, an initiative of the cultural committee of the Municipality of Sønderborg, and received a cash prize. There are currently no plans to realise the work.",
"The sculpture proposes a dialogue between two worlds, above and below water. Stainless steel pipes rise from the water and bend toward the viewer, connecting the two domains.",
"Inside each pipe, a hydrophone picks up the sounds of the sea, amplified and played back through speakers built into the structure — making audible a symphony normally hidden beneath the surface.",
"The work sets the activity of the harbour against the quiet, immersive experience it offers: an invitation to notice the hidden world beneath the water, where silence usually reigns."
],
"exhibitions": [
{
"year": "2023",
"name": "Vision I – On water (sketch exhibition)",
"venue": "Radar, Multikulturhuset, Sønderborg, DK",
"dates": "Jun 23 – Aug 6"
}
],
"images": [
{
"src": "media/test_out3_crop2_vert.png",
"caption": "Under Overfladen — visualisation: steel pipes bending out over the harbour water towards the viewer"
},
{
"src": "media/Under_Overfladen_SLK_p2.jpg",
"caption": "Under Overfladen — visualisation: the pipes at the harbourfront"
},
{
"src": "media/Under_Overfladen_SLK_p1.jpg",
"caption": "Under Overfladen — competition sketch, title page (Søren Lyngsø Knudsen, 2023)"
},
{
"src": "media/Artboard-1@2x.png",
"caption": "Under Overfladen — technical diagram: speaker and electronics in the pipe, brackets, and a hydrophone below the surface"
},
{
"src": "media/Under_Overfladen_SLK_v1_p3.jpg",
"caption": "Under Overfladen — the proposal text in Danish, with a diagram"
},
{
"src": "media/IMG_0250.jpeg",
"caption": "Under Overfladen — the sketch on show at Radar, Multikulturhuset, Sønderborg, 2023"
}
]
},
{
"id": "fading-digits",
"title": "Fading Digits",
"collections": [
"objects"
],
"type": "Digital Wall Clock",
"year": "2021",
"materials": "Bamboo/Plywood, 3D-printed digits, Custom electronics",
"description": [
"A digital wall clock whose digits slowly fade and shift in colour — both a functional timepiece and a quiet, contemplative object.",
"The design follows a minimalist aesthetic: large, clear digits, synchronised to a time server for accuracy.",
"By slowing the act of checking the time into a brief pause, Fading Digits points to the transience of the moment — a small convergence of technology, design and philosophy."
],
"videos": [
"https://youtube.com/watch?v=S9Ycom2tosc"
],
"images": [
{
"src": "media/2021-01-09-10.28.21.jpeg",
"caption": "Fading Digits — warm amber numerals on a white panel"
},
{
"src": "media/419D2327-CC91-469A-8DE0-9B56CE42BA8D_1_105_c.jpeg",
"caption": "Fading Digits — mint-green numerals mid-fade"
},
{
"src": "media/04AF99F7-0A9B-477D-A00D-693478BFBCA9_1_105_c.jpeg",
"caption": "Fading Digits — the custom circuit board with a round logo stamp"
},
{
"src": "media/2F566DA0-15C1-4D46-8629-44E6C1181BA9_1_105_c.jpeg",
"caption": "Fading Digits — unlit, on a shelf beside a plant; the seven-segment digits are cut into the white panel"
}
]
},
{
"id": "open-your-heart",
"title": "Open Your Heart",
"collections": [
"music-performances"
],
"type": "Music for Dance Performance",
"year": "2023",
"materials": "Live electronic music, composed score",
"description": [
"Music composed for the dance performance Open Your Heart.",
"Open Your Heart is a disco dance performance created for Norwegian dancer Hilde I. Sandvold, examining the conditions that support or prevent the act of dancing — when we last truly danced, and what makes it possible to enjoy. A group of local children join the performance in search of that same, unguarded joy of movement.",
"Concept and choreography: Taneli Törmä. Performers: Hilde I. Sandvold (NO/DK), Taneli Törmä (FIN/DK) and ten local disco dancers."
],
"videos": [
"https://vimeo.com/368514069"
],
"images": [
{
"src": "media/2600x1500-openyourheart-02-1024x591-1.jpg",
"caption": "Open Your Heart — two dancers in mid-movement in a hall, spectators seated behind"
},
{
"src": "media/800px-openyourheart.jpg",
"caption": "Open Your Heart — performers with local children from a dance studio"
},
{
"src": "media/openyourheart-taneli-og-hilde.jpg",
"caption": "Taneli Törmä and Hilde I. Sandvold. Photo: Morten Arnfred"
}
],
"audio": {
"bandcamp": "https://vectral.bandcamp.com/album/music-from-open-your-heart"
}
},
{
"id": "loop",
"title": "Loop",
"collections": [
"installations-sculptures"
],
"type": "Sound and light sculpture",
"year": "2022",
"materials": "Steel, Acrylic, Speakers, LED lighting, Custom electronics",
"description": [
"Loop is a light and sound installation in which many individual elements form a single spatial composition, legible both from a distance and at close range.",
"From a distance, Loop reads as one rhythmic structure, its light and sound patterns moving across the whole; up close, the installation reveals a dominant, detailed soundscape reinforced by the light.",
"The work continues Søren Lyngsø Knudsen’s exploration of multi-channel sound and audio-reactive visual systems, and stands as a composition for a 32-channel audio system in its own right."
],
"videos": [
"https://youtube.com/watch?v=Nxs7EFwLFOs",
"https://youtube.com/shorts/7AmbZfVNmrE"
],
"images": [
{
"src": "media/LOOP_crop_vert-scaled.jpg",
"caption": "Loop — the ring of vertical light columns at night, visitors standing inside"
},
{
"src": "media/loop-thumbnail.jpeg",
"caption": "Loop at Copenhagen Light Festival 2022, Højbro Plads — the ring on the square at night, historic buildings and a spire behind"
},
{
"src": "media/IMG_1211-1.jpg",
"caption": "Loop — vertical light columns seen from inside the ring, lit windows beyond"
},
{
"src": "media/IMG_1174-1.jpg",
"caption": "Loop at Copenhagen Light Festival 2022, Højbro Plads — the full ring seen from the street"
},
{
"src": "media/2022-02-17-22.56.56.jpg",
"caption": "Loop — detail of a single column with its mounting bracket"
},
{
"src": "media/68332003410__B8DEF4C5-9855-4BCF-BB2E-16CE1241481F.jpeg",
"caption": "Loop at dusk in front of a red-brick building, under a purple evening sky"
},
{
"src": "media/2022-08-27-21.10.04.jpg",
"caption": "Loop at Aarhus Festival Week 2022 — visitors among the columns"
},
{
"src": "media/2022-08-27-21.04.54.jpg",
"caption": "Loop at Aarhus Festival Week 2022 — the ring in front of a red-brick building"
},
{
"src": "media/2022-08-27-21.03.08_ed.jpg",
"caption": "Loop at Aarhus Festival Week 2022 — visitors gathered inside the ring at night"
},
{
"src": "media/IMG_2368-scaled.jpeg",
"caption": "Loop — light tubes in a steel frame inside a concrete bunker"
},
{
"src": "media/IMG_2369-scaled.jpeg",
"caption": "Loop — the frame in the dark, three tubes lit"
},
{
"src": "media/IMG_2370-scaled.jpeg",
"caption": "Loop — the frame seen from the corner of the bunker"
},
{
"src": "media/IMG_2371-1920x2560.jpeg",
"caption": "Loop — a single lit tube in the dark bunker space"
}
],
"exhibitions": [
{
"year": "2026",
"name": "Regelbau 411",
"venue": "Hovedvejen 1, 7790 Thyholm, DK",
"dates": "Sep 5 – Dec 6"
},
{
"year": "2026",
"name": "Lysfesten Roskilde",
"venue": "Stændertorvet, Roskilde, DK",
"dates": "Jan 29 – Feb 5"
},
{
"year": "2022",
"name": "Aarhus Festival Week",
"venue": "Hack Kampmanns Plads, Aarhus, DK",
"dates": "Aug"
},
{
"year": "2022",
"name": "Copenhagen Light Festival",
"venue": "Højbro Plads, Copenhagen, DK",
"dates": "Feb",
"thanks": "Generously supported by The Danish Arts Foundation's Committee for Visual Arts."
}
]
},
{
"id": "geographica",
"title": "Geographica",
"collections": [
"installations-sculptures",
"objects"
],
"type": "Interactive \"Hidden\" Sound Installation",
"year": "2021",
"materials": "Polycarbonate, plywood, 3D-printed parts, electronics",
"description": [
"Geographica merges nature and technology into a single sound composition. Using custom software and hardware, participants move through an outdoor space; their interaction shapes an evolving, site-specific soundscape.",
"The work treats technology as a tool for reconnection rather than distance, encouraging close attention to an environment’s own sounds — from rustling leaves to distant traffic.",
"Designed to be portable, Geographica adapts to different locations, urban or rural, so each presentation produces a distinct result.",
"First presented at Marienlystparken, Aarhus, in 2021. Later selected by SNYK (now Art Music Denmark) for the project “Koncert til Danmark” and shown at Kunsthal SAK, Svendborg, 2021–2023, and at Sydhavnstippen and Valbyparken, Copenhagen, in 2023, in collaboration with Sydhavnens Bibliotek."
],
"videos": [
"https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q4UroRRJNjA"
],
"images": [
{
"src": "media/IMG_0536_edit.jpg",
"caption": "Geographica — a portable unit carried on a shoulder strap"
},
{
"src": "media/2021-07-07-19.03.01-1.jpg",
"caption": "Geographica — a participant walking across the field with a unit"
},
{
"src": "media/IMG_0530_edit.jpg",
"caption": "Geographica — unit GEO-01: wooden frame, solar panel and connector"
},
{
"src": "media/2021-07-07-19.27.04-1.jpg",
"caption": "Geographica — unit GEO-02 resting in tall grass, backlit"
},
{
"src": "media/2021-07-07-19.25.17-1920x1280.jpg",
"caption": "Geographica — four units resting in the grass, with orange carrying straps"
},
{
"src": "media/IMG_0509-1920x1280.jpg",
"caption": "Geographica — units laid out in a row on a lawn"
},
{
"src": "media/geographica-thumbnail.jpeg",
"caption": "Aerial view of the park landscape"
}
],
"exhibitions": [
{
"year": "2023",
"name": "Koncert til Danmark (with SNYK/Art Music Denmark)",
"venue": "Sydhavnstippen & Valbyparken, Copenhagen, DK"
},
{
"year": "2021-2023",
"name": "Koncert til Danmark",
"venue": "Kunsthal SAK, Svendborg, DK"
},
{
"year": "2021",
"name": "Marienlyst Park Festival",
"venue": "Marienlyst, Aarhus, DK"
}
],
"support": [
{
"name": "The Danish Arts Foundation's Committee for Visual Arts"
},
{
"name": "Kongens Enghave culture committee"
}
]
},
{
"id": "miso-cornflakes",
"title": "Miso Cornflakes",
"collections": [
"objects"
],
"type": "Eurorack Synthesizer Module",
"year": "2020–2021",
"materials": "Custom PCB, microcontroller, aluminium panel, electronic components",
"description": [
"Miso Cornflakes is a granular synthesis module for the Eurorack modular synthesizer format, developed under the company Miso Modular.",
"The module grew from years of exploring granular synthesis in software — Max, Pure Data — for both music production and sound installations, and from a wish to bring that sonic precision into a hardware, control-voltage-driven instrument.",
"Development began in the early 2010s, alongside experiments with microcontroller-based sequencers and LFOs. Mikkel Pihl, a collaborator from the Danish Institute of Electronic Music (DIEM) with an engineering background from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), joined the project as co-founder.",
"Planning for the first module began around 2018; Miso Modular was founded in 2020, and Cornflakes reached the market in spring 2021."
],
"images": [
{
"src": "media/IMG_2133_ed1_smaller_square.jpg",
"caption": "Cornflakes granular sampler, black panel — knobs, jacks and level LEDs"
},
{
"src": "media/Cornflakes_01_ed1-1920x1280.jpg",
"caption": "Cornflakes, silver panel, with patch cables"
},
{
"src": "media/IMG_2124_ed1_smaller.jpg",
"caption": "Cornflakes (black) standing in front of warm marquee lights"
},
{
"src": "media/IMG_2129_ed1_smaller.jpg",
"caption": "Cornflakes (black) in front of a modular rack"
},
{
"src": "media/Cornflakes_04_ed1-1920x1280.jpg",
"caption": "Cornflakes (silver) at an angle on a plywood surface"
},
{
"src": "media/miso_cornflakes_front.png",
"caption": "Cornflakes — silver front panel"
},
{
"src": "media/miso_back.png",
"caption": "Cornflakes — the green PCB, Miso Modular 2021"
}
],
"collaborators": [
{
"name": "Mikkel Pihl",
"role": "Co-founder, Engineering",
"institution": "Technical University of Denmark (DTU)"
}
],
"company": {
"name": "Miso Modular",
"founded": "2020",
"website": "https://miso.dk/"
}
},
{
"id": "place",
"title": "Place",
"collections": [],
"type": "Orchestral Composition with Live Electronics",
"year": "2020",
"materials": "Symphonic orchestra, live electronics, 3D stereoscopic visuals, multichannel speakers",
"description": [
"Place is an immersive work for symphonic orchestra, 3D stereoscopic visuals and multichannel electronic sound.",
"Composed for and performed by the South Jutland Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Søren Kinch Hansen, with live electronics and visuals by Søren Lyngsø Knudsen, at Define Festival, Sønderborg, November 2020.",
"The 35-minute piece is arranged in seven parts for full orchestra and electronic soundscape. Its visual component — abstract shapes and colour — is partly generated by, and reactive to, the live music."
],
"videos": [
"https://youtube.com/watch?v=yqRyQzUfxoo"
],
"images": [
{
"src": "media/Screenshot-2023-09-20-at-11.01.10.png",
"caption": "Place — the South Jutland Symphony Orchestra and conductor seen from above, layered with visuals"
},
{
"src": "media/Screenshot-2020-11-10-at-09.45.35.png",
"caption": "Place — abstract visual: soft purple and blue light particles"
},
{
"src": "media/Screenshot-2020-11-10-at-09.47.37.png",
"caption": "Place — abstract visual: crimson organic forms"
},
{
"src": "media/Screenshot-2023-09-20-at-11.02.04.png",
"caption": "Place — clarinet and bassoon players during the performance"
},
{
"src": "media/Screenshot-2020-11-10-at-09.46.03.png",
"caption": "Place — abstract visual: dark leaf-like shards"
},
{
"src": "media/Screenshot-2023-09-20-at-11.02.42.png",
"caption": "Place — a flautist, black-and-white close-up"
},
{
"src": "media/Screenshot-2020-11-10-at-09.45.04.png",
"caption": "Place — abstract visual: a dome made of fine vertical lines"
}
],
"exhibitions": [
{
"year": "2020",
"name": "Define Festival",
"venue": "Alsion, Sønderborg, DK",
"dates": "Nov 6"
}
]
},
{
"id": "land",
"title": "Land",
"collections": [
"installations-sculptures"
],
"type": "Electronic Instrument / Concert Installation",
"year": "2019",
"materials": "Custom multichannel speaker system, speaker stands, custom electronics and software",
"description": [
"Land is an electronic instrument and a travelling concert installation.",
"Multiple speakers form a modular network, powered by several computer nodes and controlled from a central terminal. Each module carries its own synthesis and sampling elements for live performance.",
"The premiere’s hour-long composition combined pre-composed and improvised material, built from sounds recorded in nature — water, wind — alongside more unexpected ambient sources such as air-conditioning units and refrigerators, all manipulated through the Land system.",
"Built to be mobile and waterproof, Land is designed for both indoor and outdoor venues, particularly those where its own presence can meet an equally powerful setting."
],
"images": [
{
"src": "media/2019-06-15-14.13.53.jpg",
"caption": "Land — a speaker on a stand in the forest, more units among the trees"
},
{
"src": "media/2019-06-15-15.36.40.jpg",
"caption": "Land at Marienlyst Park Festival — the audience, many of them children, gathered in the forest"
},
{
"src": "media/2019-06-15-15.39.58.jpg",
"caption": "Land at Marienlyst Park Festival — a crowd around the speaker modules in the forest"
},
{
"src": "media/Screenshot-2018-09-03-21.41.07.jpg",
"caption": "Land — concept render: speaker modules on poles in a wide circle"
},
{
"src": "media/land-thumbnail.jpeg",
"caption": "Land — concept render from a different angle"
}
],
"exhibitions": [
{
"year": "2019",
"name": "Marienlyst Park Festival",
"venue": "Marienlyst, Aarhus, DK",
"dates": "Jun"
}
],
"support": [
{
"name": "The Danish Arts Foundation's Committee for Music"
},
{
"name": "The Danish Composers' Society"
}
]
},
{
"id": "rain-machine",
"title": "Rain Machine",
"collections": [
"installations-sculptures"
],
"type": "Sound Installation / Instrument",
"year": "2018",
"materials": "Modified irrigation system, Solenoid valves, Aluminium tubes, Custom electronics and software",
"description": [
"Rain Machine is a system of up to sixty-four electronically controlled water valves, each releasing drops with precise timing.",
"Built as part of COVER, a three-part choreographed sound installation by Location X, the work’s sound is made entirely from the transient impact of droplets striking the floor — its timbre and volume shaped by drop size and water pressure.",
"In the performance, the instrument played a twenty-minute composition, using custom software built on procedural and symmetrical patterns to move between the sound of falling rain and fully controlled sequences."
],
"images": [
{
"src": "media/thumbnail.jpeg",
"caption": "The hall before the performance — arched roof, white curtain and a reflective floor"
},
{
"src": "media/2018-08-07-15.50.45.jpg",
"caption": "The black-box space with a white curtain at the back and light tubes overhead"
},
{
"src": "media/2018-08-07-15.51.00.jpg",
"caption": "The same space from the other side, red doors on the right"
},
{
"src": "media/2018-05-05-16.18.33-6.jpg",
"caption": "Rain Machine — a stream of water falling through a shaft of light"
},
{
"src": "media/2018-05-05-16.18.33.jpg",
"caption": "Rain Machine — droplets and splashes on the dark floor in a beam of light"
},
{
"src": "media/2018-08-07-15.51.32.jpg",
"caption": "Light tubes on the ceiling above the installation"
},
{
"src": "media/2018-05-06-13.07.46.jpg",
"caption": "Visitors in the hall, sunlight falling in bright bars on the floor"
},
{
"src": "media/2018-08-04-19.11.02.jpg",
"caption": "Visitors gathered in a black-box space under the light rig"
},
{
"src": "media/2018-06-03-15.17.13.jpg",
"caption": "Visitors in the black-box space, daylight from tall windows"
}
],
"exhibitions": [
{
"year": "2018",
"name": "COVER",
"venue": "Teaterøen, Copenhagen, DK"
},
{
"year": "2018",
"name": "COVER",
"venue": "Musik- og teaterhøjskolen, Toflund, DK"
},
{
"year": "2018",
"name": "COVER",
"venue": "Godsbanen, Aarhus, DK"
}
],
"collaborators": [
{
"name": "Kasper Hansen",
"role": "Concept originator, Set designer"
},
{
"name": "Taneli Törmä",
"role": "Choreographer"
},
{
"name": "Petri Tuhkanen",
"role": "Light design"
}
]
},
{
"id": "organ-of-the-sun",
"title": "Organ of The Sun",
"collections": [
"installations-sculptures"
],
"type": "Sound Sculpture / Electronic Instrument",
"year": "2018",
"materials": "Acrylic tubes, solar panels, speakers, custom electronics and software",
"description": [
"Organ of the Sun – Voice of Herredsvang was a site-specific musical work shown at Marienlyst Park Festival, Aarhus, in 2018.",
"At once a sound sculpture and an instrument, it was solar-powered, its algorithmic composition built from the voices of Herredsvang’s residents.",
"The installation continued an earlier sculpture, The Forest Organ, made with visual artist Birgitte Kristensen in 2013.",
"Acrylic tubes up to four metres long were mounted in the trees of a small forest, each fitted with an electronics box, a wind sensor and a solar panel.",
"Each tube’s length corresponds to a wavelength and frequency, following the principle of a pipe organ — though here the sound is generated by a speaker inside the tube rather than air through a mouthpiece, as in electronic organs such as the Kienle.",
"The composition draws on recordings of citizens speaking about their relationship to Herredsvang, gathered in as many of the area’s more than seventy languages as possible. The recordings were filtered to resonate within the tubes and cut into fragments, recombined by the algorithmic composition; the differences in timbre and rhythm between languages became the basis of the piece.",
"Custom software calculated up to 250 harmonics per tube, generating over a thousand filtered variations for each."
],
"videos": [
"https://youtube.com/watch?v=qAmv73qoO2c",
"https://youtube.com/watch?v=DSCEATmYL-M"
],
"images": [
{
"src": "media/2018-06-12-18.18.41-1.jpg",
"caption": "Organ of the Sun — acrylic tube with speaker strapped to a tree, with solar panel and electronics box"
},
{
"src": "media/x2018-06-16-12.40.03.jpg",
"caption": "Organ of the Sun — acrylic tubes among the tree trunks"
},
{
"src": "media/x2018-06-16-12.38.29-1.jpg",
"caption": "Organ of the Sun — the information sign “Solorglet – Herredsvangs stemme” in the forest"
},
{
"src": "media/2018-06-16-12.43.20.jpg",
"caption": "Organ of the Sun — looking up through the canopy at tubes mounted in the trees"
},
{
"src": "media/2018-06-16-12.38.49-1.jpg",
"caption": "Organ of the Sun — an acrylic tube suspended high in a beech tree"
}
],
"exhibitions": [
{
"year": "2018",
"name": "Marienlyst Park Festival",
"venue": "Marienlyst, Aarhus, DK",
"dates": "Jun",
"thanks": "Generously supported by The Danish Arts Foundation's Committee for Visual Arts and The Aarhus Art Council."
}
]
},
{
"id": "black-side",
"title": "Black Side",
"collections": [
"music-performances"
],
"type": "Music for Multidisciplinary Performance",
"year": "2018",
"materials": "Field recordings, live electronics, 12\" vinyl",
"description": [
"The Black Side is a multidisciplinary performance about light, and its absence, in the Nordic countries.",
"Built from twelve months of audio and video recordings across Norway, Denmark and Finland, the performance moved its audience through darkness, fog, isolation and blinding light.",
"Location X, the group behind the work, brought together music, dance and video art to explore the particular quality of Nordic light.",
"The music is assembled from field recordings made during residencies in Denmark and Finland, composed directly on stage over the course of the performance’s development.",
"Released on 12\" vinyl and digitally, 1 March 2018."
],
"videos": [
"https://vimeo.com/139606701"
],
"images": [
{
"src": "media/x_black_side_web_-scaled.jpg",
"caption": "The Black Side — the vinyl release: sleeve, record, inlay and photo prints on a wooden table"
},
{
"src": "media/1_cover_web.jpg",
"caption": "The Black Side — cover: ink-painted faces, “Music from The Black Side, Søren Lyngsø Knudsen”"
},
{
"src": "media/0_record_web.jpg",
"caption": "The Black Side — the 12\" record in its black inner sleeve"
},
{
"src": "media/inlay_p1_web.jpg",
"caption": "The Black Side — inlay: a silhouetted figure in a beam of light, with track list and credits"
}
],
"audio": {
"bandcamp": "https://vectral.bandcamp.com/album/music-from-the-black-side"
},
"support": [
{
"name": "The Danish Composers' Society"
}
]
},
{
"id": "gravitational-vibrations",
"title": "Gravitational Vibrations",
"collections": [
"installations-sculptures"
],
"type": "Sound Sculpture",
"year": "2017",
"materials": "Piano wire, chalk boulders, galvanized clamps, iron pipes, plywood, custom electronics and software",
"description": [
"Gravitational Vibrations is a sound sculpture made for the exhibition “The Overheard”, situated in an underground pond inside the former chalk mine Mønsted Kalkgruber.",
"A six-metre steel frame holds eight piano strings, each spanned by a boulder whose weight and the string’s length together set its pitch.",
"Electromagnetic coils set the strings into long, drone-like oscillation; servo motors can strike them for a more percussive effect. Both are shaped further by the frame’s resonance and the cave’s own acoustics.",
"The sculpture changes over time: steel oxidises, boulders gather algae, and the generative composition is continually reshaped by sensor data from within the structure.",
"Photo: Olaf Zhiga"
],
"images": [
{
"src": "media/xIMG_6280b.jpg",
"caption": "Gravitational Vibrations — the steel frame and suspended boulders at the end of a chalk-mine passage, reflected in the underground pond. Photo: Olaf Zhiga"
},
{
"src": "media/1-1920x1280.jpg",
"caption": "Gravitational Vibrations — the frame and boulders in a brightly lit archway of the chalk mine"
},
{
"src": "media/2.jpg",
"caption": "Gravitational Vibrations — wide view of the cave with the frame reflected in the water"
},
{
"src": "media/3.jpg",
"caption": "Gravitational Vibrations — chalk boulders hanging from piano wire"
},
{
"src": "media/IMG_6304b.jpg",
"caption": "Gravitational Vibrations — the sculpture in its archway in the chalk mine"
},
{
"src": "media/IMG_6325b.jpg",
"caption": "Gravitational Vibrations — a visitor walking through the flooded passage towards the sculpture"
}
],
"exhibitions": [
{
"year": "2017",
"name": "The Overheard",
"venue": "Mønsted Kalkgruber, DK",
"dates": "May – Nov"
}
],
"support": [
{
"name": "Aarhus European Capital of Culture 2017"
},
{
"name": "The Overheard"
}
]
},
{
"id": "figure-8",
"title": "Figure 8",
"collections": [
"installations-sculptures"
],
"type": "Sound installation",
"year": "2019",
"materials": "Surface transducers, plywood, electronics",
"description": [
"“Invisible” sound sculpture. 50-minute loop.",
"Figure 8 was shown as part of the group exhibition Between Us, alongside Tim Etchells, Sissel Tolaas, Tamara Grcic, Žilvinas Kempinas and Isabel Lewis.",
"Between Us brought together dance, fine art and academia across three institutions of the Rhein-Main region — the tanzmainz ensemble of Staatstheater Mainz, Kunsthalle Mainz, and the Motion Bank research project at Hochschule Mainz — built around the piece Effect, for five dancers, choreographed by Taneli Törmä with music by Søren Lyngsø Knudsen.",
"Figure 8 translates the motion-capture data behind Effect directly into music: a dataset that, out of context, could describe almost anything, converted into sound while keeping the impression of music intact.",
"The dancers’ movement also pans the sound in the room, giving their presence a sonic form — an experiment in how much of the original signal survives translation from raw data into something recognisably musical.",
"A book documenting the project was published by DISTANZ Verlag. Music from Effect is available on Bandcamp and most streaming platforms."
],
"videos": [
"https://youtube.com/watch?v=mGK1Fptc31E",
"https://youtube.com/watch?v=0rsl3aD4K3I",
"https://youtube.com/watch?v=VT6g9U0so1A"
],
"images": [
{
"src": "media/figure8-thumbnail.jpeg",
"caption": "Figure 8 at Kunsthalle Mainz — a visitor crossing the white gallery space"
},
{
"src": "media/3_STARTBILD-BETWEEN-US.jpg",
"caption": "Between Us — exhibition poster, Kunsthalle Mainz, 15/03–16/06/19"
},
{
"src": "media/2_Norbert-Migletz.jpg",
"caption": "Figure 8 at Kunsthalle Mainz — a visitor walking through the white gallery. Photo: Norbert Migletz"
},
{
"src": "media/1_62202866_355074711867861_3685116365892478879_n.jpg",
"caption": "Between Us — the catalogue published by DISTANZ, silver cover on a red background"
},
{
"src": "media/0_sandra_schwertfeger.jpg",
"caption": "Figure 8 at Kunsthalle Mainz — the empty gallery with two low benches. Photo: Sandra Schwertfeger"
}
],
"exhibitions": [
{
"year": "2019",
"name": "Between Us",
"venue": "Kunsthalle Mainz, Mainz, DE",
"dates": "Mar 15 – Jun 16"
}
],
"audio": {
"bandcamp": "https://vectral.bandcamp.com/album/music-from-effect"
}
},
{
"id": "animated-glass",
"title": "Animated Glass",
"collections": [
"installations-sculptures",
"music-performances"
],
"type": "Sound Sculpture",
"year": "2015",
"materials": "Glass jars, surface transducers, stands, custom electronics and software",
"description": [
"Eight glasses are set into vibration by surface transducers. The sounds are the glasses’ own — recorded, modified and set in motion by an algorithm composed for the work; the piece has no fixed duration.",
"Animated Glass and Animated Brass were both made for the SPRING’15 exhibition at Kunsthal Aarhus, shown alongside work by Katrine Hvid and Laura Stamer.",
"SPRING is an exhibition-in-exhibition for artists previously shown at KP, the Artists’ Easter Exhibition — a platform for a small selection of past participants.",
"A boxset multiple — exhibition catalogue, 7\" vinyl, fabric sample and photograph — was released alongside the exhibition in 2015, available digitally and as a physical set from Bandcamp."
],
"videos": [
"https://youtube.com/watch?v=YXY4znV0RB0"
],
"images": [
{
"src": "media/IMG_5336.jpg",
"caption": "Animated Glass — glass cylinders, each with a small transducer on a stand, and copper wire across the gallery floor"
},
{
"src": "media/IMG_5333.jpg",
"caption": "Animated Glass — two of the glasses, each with a transducer on a black stand"
},
{
"src": "media/IMG_5334.jpg",
"caption": "Animated Glass — several glasses with their stands and copper wire"
},
{
"src": "media/IMG_5339.jpg",
"caption": "Animated Glass — detail: a transducer in a shock mount on a stand beside a glass, copper wire on the floor"
},
{
"src": "media/v2015-03-29-13.27.41.jpg",
"caption": "Animated Glass — the glasses scattered across the gallery floor"
},
{
"src": "media/Screenshot-2016-02-24-22.25.36.png",
"caption": "Animated Glass — the installation seen from above, a black case at the wall"
},
{
"src": "media/X2016-09-24-08.20.52.jpg",
"caption": "Animated Glass — the 7\" record from the SPRING'15 box set, side A, 45 rpm"
},
{
"src": "media/01_2016-09-24-08.20.09.jpg",
"caption": "SPRING'15 box set — box and catalogue (Søren Lyngsø Knudsen, Laura Stamer, Katrine Hvid)"
},
{
"src": "media/2016-09-24-08.21.46.jpg",
"caption": "SPRING'15 box set opened — 7\" record, fabric sample, photograph and catalogue"
},
{
"src": "media/03_2016-09-24-08.22.52.jpg",
"caption": "SPRING'15 box set — the catalogue open at a view of Animated Glass in the gallery"
},
{
"src": "media/04_2016-09-24-08.23.00.jpg",
"caption": "SPRING'15 box set — catalogue spread with Animated Glass (left) and the brass work (right)"
}
],
"exhibitions": [
{
"year": "2017",
"name": "Ultimate Impact",
"venue": "Rundetårn, Copenhagen, DK",
"dates": "20.05 – 02.07"
},
{
"year": "2015",
"name": "KP/SPRING'15",
"venue": "Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, DK",
"dates": "May"
}
],
"audio": {
"bandcamp": "https://vectral.bandcamp.com/album/animated-glass-animated-brass"
},
"support": [
{
"name": "The Danish Arts Foundation's Committee for Visual Arts"
}
],
"publications": [
{
"name": "SPRING'15 Boxset Multiple",
"year": "2015",
"format": "Exhibition catalog, 7\" vinyl, fabric sample, photograph"
}
]
},
{
"id": "animated-brass",
"title": "Animated Brass",
"collections": [
"installations-sculptures",
"music-performances"
],
"type": "Sound Sculpture",
"year": "2015",
"materials": "Brass pipes and spacers, Nylon String, DC motors, Custom electronics",
"description": [
"Animated Brass is a carillon of brass pipes in varying thickness and length. Metal rings, lifted and released by an algorithmic composition, strike the pipes to produce rhythmic tones.",
"Animated Glass and Animated Brass were both made for the SPRING’15 exhibition at Kunsthal Aarhus, shown alongside work by Katrine Hvid and Laura Stamer.",
"SPRING is an exhibition-in-exhibition for artists previously shown at KP, the Artists’ Easter Exhibition — a platform for a small selection of past participants.",
"A boxset multiple — exhibition catalogue, 7\" vinyl, fabric sample and photograph — was released alongside the exhibition in 2015, available digitally and as a physical set from Bandcamp.",
"Photo: Laura Stamer"
],
"videos": [
"https://youtube.com/watch?v=yr8smIF-7LU"
],
"images": [
{
"src": "media/Laura_stamer_IMG_5363.jpg",
"caption": "Animated Brass — brass tubes and rings hanging along a white gallery wall. Photo: Laura Stamer"
},
{
"src": "media/Laura_stamer_IMG_5352.jpg",
"caption": "Animated Brass — detail of the brass tubes and rings. Photo: Laura Stamer"
},
{
"src": "media/Laura_stamer_IMG_5343-1.jpg",
"caption": "Animated Brass — tubes and rings at close range. Photo: Laura Stamer"
},
{
"src": "media/Laura_stamer_IMG_5342.jpg",
"caption": "Animated Brass — the tubes in motion, one blurred. Photo: Laura Stamer"
},
{
"src": "media/Laura_stamer_IMG_5357.jpg",
"caption": "Animated Brass — wide view of the wall installation. Photo: Laura Stamer"
},
{
"src": "media/Laura_stamer_IMG_5356.jpg",
"caption": "Animated Brass — the installation in a grey light. Photo: Laura Stamer"
},
{
"src": "media/01_2016-09-24-08.20.09.jpg",
"caption": "SPRING'15 box set — box and catalogue"
},
{
"src": "media/X2016-09-24-08.22.04.jpg",
"caption": "SPRING'15 catalogue — text pages on Animated Glass and Animated Brass"
},
{
"src": "media/04_2016-09-24-08.23.00.jpg",
"caption": "SPRING'15 box set — catalogue spread with Animated Glass (left) and the brass work (right)"
}
],
"exhibitions": [
{
"year": "2017",
"name": "Ultimate Impact",
"venue": "Rundetårn, Copenhagen, DK",
"dates": "20.05 – 02.07"
},
{
"year": "2015",
"name": "KP/SPRING'15",
"venue": "Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, DK",
"dates": "May"
}
],
"audio": {
"bandcamp": "https://vectral.bandcamp.com/album/animated-glass-animated-brass"
},
"support": [
{
"name": "The Danish Arts Foundation's Committee for Visual Arts"
}
]
},
{
"id": "the-forest-organ",
"title": "The Forest Organ",
"collections": [
"installations-sculptures",
"music-performances"
],
"thumb": "media/0002392362_10.jpg",
"type": "Site-specific Sound Sculpture",
"year": "2013",
"materials": "Transparent acrylic tubes, speakers, custom electronics",
"description": [
"The Forest Organ is a site-specific sound sculpture made with artist Birgitte Kristensen for Sculpture by the Sea, 2013.",
"At once a computer-controlled instrument set into the landscape and a sculpture made of sound, the work occupied a forest clearing, its shifting timbral space open for the audience to enter and experience physically as well as sensually.",
"Sound recorded during the exhibition was released digitally and on clear vinyl."
],
"videos": [
"https://youtube.com/watch?v=gllQhgH5Eoc"
],
"images": [
{
"src": "media/08_2013-06-22-15.03.11.jpg",
"caption": "The Forest Organ at Sculpture by the Sea 2013 — visitors on the forest path"
},
{
"src": "media/06_2013-05-17-14.48.34.jpg",
"caption": "The Forest Organ — an acrylic tube strapped to a beech trunk, seen from below"
},
{
"src": "media/02_2013-05-18-13.15.42-1024x682-1.jpg",
"caption": "The Forest Organ — looking up through the beech canopy at tubes on the trunks"
},
{
"src": "media/07_2013-05-18-13.17.18-1024x682-1.jpg",
"caption": "The Forest Organ — acrylic tubes mounted high on the trunks"
},
{
"src": "media/05_2013-05-22-15.25.21.jpg",
"caption": "The Forest Organ — the forest path, with tubes on the trunks on either side"
},
{
"src": "media/01_2013-05-18-10.58.02-1024x682-1.jpg",
"caption": "The Forest Organ — tubes on trunks and branches under a green canopy"
},
{
"src": "media/0002392362_10.jpg",
"caption": "The Forest Organ — the clear vinyl record with its sleeve"
},
{
"src": "media/0002392369_10.jpg",
"caption": "The Forest Organ — clear vinyl on the turntable, side A, 33 rpm"
},
{
"src": "media/0002392368_10.jpg",
"caption": "The Forest Organ — sleeve with a forest-canopy photograph and title"
},
{
"src": "media/0002392365_10.jpg",
"caption": "The Forest Organ — the sleeve in its plastic cover"
},
{
"src": "media/0002392366_10.jpg",
"caption": "The Forest Organ — edition number #003/200 and a QR code on the sleeve"
}
],
"exhibitions": [
{
"year": "2013",
"name": "Sculpture by the Sea",
"venue": "Aarhus, DK",
"dates": "May – Jun"
}
],
"collaborators": [
{
"name": "Birgitte Kristensen",
"role": "Visual Artist",
"url": "http://www.birgittekristensen.dk/"
}
],
"audio": {
"bandcamp": "https://vectral.bandcamp.com/album/the-forest-organ",
"format": "Digital and clear vinyl"
}
},
{
"id": "behind-my-skin",
"title": "Behind My Skin",
"collections": [
"music-performances"
],
"type": "Music for Dance Performance",
"year": "2013",
"materials": "Live electronic music",
"description": [
"Behind My Skin is a modern dance performance drawing on traditional Greenlandic mask dance and culture, examining the power of the group against the independence of the individual.",
"Who is the individual, and what does he need? When is a person alone? What is a person’s place within the group? The performance is a journey into the condition, place and space of the group."
],
"videos": [
"https://youtube.com/watch?v=C9KqfWQwhC4"
],
"images": [
{
"src": "media/behind-my-skin-cover.jpg",
"caption": "Behind My Skin — cover artwork: a diagonal black-and-white pattern"
}
],
"exhibitions": [
{
"year": "2013",
"name": "Behind My Skin",
"venue": "Teater Momentum, Odense, DK"
}
],
"audio": {
"bandcamp": "https://vectral.bandcamp.com/album/music-from-behind-my-skin"
}
},
{
"id": "bsdb",
"title": "BSD+B",
"collections": [],
"type": "Extended Big Band / Live Electronics",
"year": "2012-present",
"materials": "Live electronics, extended big band instrumentation",
"description": [
"Blood Sweat Drum + Bass is a twenty-six-piece extended big band of Danish musicians and composers, expanding the big band format with an overwhelming energy that crosses musical borders.",
"After several years creating live visuals for the band, Søren Lyngsø Knudsen began adding electronic sound and became a permanent member around 2012, contributing live electronics as the band’s direction has continued to evolve.",
"He has since contributed numerous compositions as composer, co-composer and arranger — among them “Poly Vapi”, performed at Musikhuset, Aarhus, in 2019."
],
"videos": [
"https://youtube.com/watch?v=tiVwTueu-c8"
],
"images": [
{
"src": "media/bsdb.png",
"caption": "BSD+B — the ensemble on stage among vertical columns of blue and amber light"
},
{
"src": "media/1920_1980_blood-sweat-1920x1393.jpg",
"caption": "BSD+B — the band on stage, seen from the side of the stage"
},
{
"src": "media/10555.jpg",
"caption": "BSD+B — the full ensemble on stage from an elevated angle"
}
]
},
{
"id": "vectral-color-space",
"title": "Vectral Color Space",
"collections": [
"music-performances"
],
"type": "Electronic Music Album / Audiovisual Performance",
"year": "2009",
"materials": "Digital release, live electronics, computer-generated visuals",
"description": [
"Under the moniker Vectral, Søren Lyngsø Knudsen toured widely with multidisciplinary concerts combining electronic sound and computer-generated visuals.",
"Color Space is a digital release of tracks written and performed in 2009.",
"Vectral’s music moves through ambient, glitch, IDM and experimental electronica, deliberately incorporating glitches and unconventional sound sources rather than pursuing a polished production. Its largely instrumental compositions are paired with abstract, 3D-generated visuals integral to the work, synchronised into a single audiovisual experience.",
"Performed in Denmark — including Roskilde, Spor, Spot, Strøm, Public Service, RECession, Define, LAK, Smuk and Tonespace festivals, MAB and Science & Cocktails — and internationally in China, the UK, Germany, Italy and France."
],
"images": [
{
"src": "media/color_space_color_web1.jpg",
"caption": "Color Space — cover: vertical streams of multicoloured data"
},
{
"src": "media/Vectral-AEC-JP.jpg",
"caption": "Vectral live — a performer at three screens under a blue and cyan projection"
},
{
"src": "media/vectral-web.gif",
"caption": "Vectral live — a performer at a laptop in front of a high-contrast black-and-white projection"
}
],
"videos": [
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93pVVYmTwcY",
"https://youtu.be/oxKM-xyHqKc?si=MOgvJzaLJh4rGfDb"
],
"audio": {
"bandcamp": "https://vectral.bandcamp.com/album/color-space-2009"
}
},
{
"id": "vectral-alpha",
"title": "Vectral Alpha",
"collections": [
"music-performances"
],
"type": "Electronic Music Album / Audiovisual Performance",
"year": "2008",
"materials": "CD + Download, live electronics, computer-generated visuals",
"description": [
"Under the moniker Vectral, Søren Lyngsø Knudsen toured widely with multidisciplinary concerts combining electronic sound and computer-generated visuals.",
"Alpha is a physical release of tracks written and performed in 2006–2007, available on CD and download from Bandcamp, and on all streaming services.",
"Vectral’s music moves through ambient, glitch, IDM and experimental electronica, deliberately incorporating glitches and unconventional sound sources rather than pursuing a polished production. Its largely instrumental compositions are paired with abstract, 3D-generated visuals integral to the work, synchronised into a single audiovisual experience.",
"Performed in Denmark — including Roskilde, Spor, Spot, Strøm, Public Service, RECession, Define, LAK, Smuk and Tonespace festivals, MAB and Science & Cocktails — and internationally in China, the UK, Germany, Italy and France."
],
"images": [
{
"src": "media/Alpha_03.jpg",
"caption": "Alpha — the CD in its jewel case, a laptop behind"
},
{
"src": "media/0_Alpha_01.jpg",
"caption": "Alpha — artwork: a fan of blue and green spikes on white"
},
{
"src": "media/Vectral-1920x1078.jpg",
"caption": "Vectral live — a performer at a laptop with a green and cyan glitch projection behind"
}
],
"videos": [
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NAghLBpwng",
"https://youtu.be/hfVAtS1p2xw?feature=shared"
],
"audio": {
"bandcamp": "https://vectral.bandcamp.com/album/alpha"
}
},
{
"id": "vectral-anti-climax",
"title": "Anti-Climax EP",
"collections": [
"music-performances"
],
"type": "Electronic Music EP",
"year": "2010",
"materials": "Digital release, live electronics, computer-generated visuals",
"description": [
"Under the moniker Vectral, Søren Lyngsø Knudsen toured widely with multidisciplinary concerts combining electronic sound and computer-generated visuals.",
"Anti-Climax is a digital EP release, continuing the ambient, glitch and IDM sound of Alpha and Color Space.",
"Vectral’s music moves through ambient, glitch, IDM and experimental electronica, deliberately incorporating glitches and unconventional sound sources rather than pursuing a polished production. Its largely instrumental compositions are paired with abstract, 3D-generated visuals integral to the work, synchronised into a single audiovisual experience.",
"Performed in Denmark — including Roskilde, Spor, Spot, Strøm, Public Service, RECession, Define, LAK, Smuk and Tonespace festivals, MAB and Science & Cocktails — and internationally in China, the UK, Germany, Italy and France."
],
"images": [
{
"src": "media/vectral-anti-climax-cover.jpg",
"caption": "Anti-Climax — cover: a fractured black and white form over the title"
}
],
"audio": {
"bandcamp": "https://vectral.bandcamp.com/album/anti-climax-ep-2010"
}
},
{
"id": "triwave",
"title": "Tri Wave 1+2",
"collections": [
"graphics-prints"
],
"type": "Digital Print",
"year": "2020",
"materials": "Custom software, 350g Silk paper, 50×70 cm (B2)",
"description": [
"A series of prints generated with custom software from sound: the shapes and forms are drawn directly from musical waveforms.",
"Tri Wave 1+2 is a limited edition of giclée prints on 350gsm silk paper, B2 format."
],
"images": [
{
"src": "media/triwave-01.jpg",
"caption": "Tri Wave 1 — burgundy waveform forms on pale yellow"
},
{
"src": "media/triwave-02.jpg",
"caption": "Tri Wave 2 — dark green waveform forms on pale yellow"
},
{
"src": "media/triwave-03.jpg",
"caption": "Tri Wave — purple waveform forms on pale yellow"
},
{
"src": "media/triwave-04.jpg",
"caption": "Tri Wave — red waveform forms on pale yellow"
},
{
"src": "media/triwave-05.jpg",
"caption": "Tri Wave — blue-grey waveform forms on pale yellow"
},
{
"src": "media/triwave-06.jpg",
"caption": "Tri Wave — orange waveform forms on pale yellow"
}
]
},
{
"id": "soundprint-01",
"title": "Soundprint 01",
"collections": [
"graphics-prints"
],
"type": "Print",
"year": "2009–2011",
"description": [
"One print from the Soundprints series: music-generated imagery made with custom software that translates audio analysis into visual form — frequency content, dynamic envelope and timbral character encoded as shape, colour and composition. The series has been shown at venues across Denmark and in China."
],
"images": [
{
"src": "media/vectral-soundprint-green.jpg",
"caption": "Soundprint — pale lilac and green shards"
}
]
},
{
"id": "soundprint-02",
"title": "Soundprint 02",
"collections": [
"graphics-prints"
],
"type": "Print",
"year": "2009–2011",
"description": [
"One print from the Soundprints series: music-generated imagery made with custom software that translates audio analysis into visual form — frequency content, dynamic envelope and timbral character encoded as shape, colour and composition. The series has been shown at venues across Denmark and in China."
],
"images": [
{
"src": "media/vectral-double-blue-alt.jpg",
"caption": "Soundprint — crimson and white shards"
}
]
},
{
"id": "soundprint-03",
"title": "Soundprint 03",
"collections": [
"graphics-prints"
],
"type": "Print",
"year": "2009–2011",
"description": [
"One print from the Soundprints series: music-generated imagery made with custom software that translates audio analysis into visual form — frequency content, dynamic envelope and timbral character encoded as shape, colour and composition. The series has been shown at venues across Denmark and in China."
],
"images": [
{
"src": "media/vectral-doubleobj-blue1.jpg",
"caption": "Soundprint — ice-blue and white shards around a dark centre"
}
]
},
{
"id": "soundprint-04",
"title": "Soundprint 04",
"collections": [
"graphics-prints"
],
"type": "Print",
"year": "2009–2011",
"description": [
"One print from the Soundprints series: music-generated imagery made with custom software that translates audio analysis into visual form — frequency content, dynamic envelope and timbral character encoded as shape, colour and composition. The series has been shown at venues across Denmark and in China."
],
"images": [
{
"src": "media/vectral-doubleobj-blue2.jpg",
"caption": "Soundprint — a black form with amber and aqua"
}
]
},
{
"id": "soundprint-05",
"title": "Soundprint 05",
"collections": [
"graphics-prints"
],
"type": "Print",
"year": "2009–2011",
"description": [
"One print from the Soundprints series: music-generated imagery made with custom software that translates audio analysis into visual form — frequency content, dynamic envelope and timbral character encoded as shape, colour and composition. The series has been shown at venues across Denmark and in China."
],
"images": [
{
"src": "media/vectral-doubleobj-multicolor.jpg",
"caption": "Soundprint — grey, amber and teal"
}
]
},
{
"id": "soundprint-06",
"title": "Soundprint 06",
"collections": [
"graphics-prints"
],
"type": "Print",
"year": "2009–2011",
"description": [
"One print from the Soundprints series: music-generated imagery made with custom software that translates audio analysis into visual form — frequency content, dynamic envelope and timbral character encoded as shape, colour and composition. The series has been shown at venues across Denmark and in China."
],
"images": [
{
"src": "media/vectral-doubleobj-multicolor1.jpg",
"caption": "Soundprint — dark forms against a blue-white sky"
}
]
},
{
"id": "soundprint-07",
"title": "Soundprint 07",
"collections": [
"graphics-prints"
],
"type": "Print",
"year": "2009–2011",
"description": [
"One print from the Soundprints series: music-generated imagery made with custom software that translates audio analysis into visual form — frequency content, dynamic envelope and timbral character encoded as shape, colour and composition. The series has been shown at venues across Denmark and in China."
],
"images": [
{
"src": "media/vectral-quadobject-gridtest4.jpg",
"caption": "Soundprint — black arcs with orange and blue (portrait format)"
}
]
},
{
"id": "soundprint-08",
"title": "Soundprint 08",
"collections": [
"graphics-prints"
],
"type": "Print",
"year": "2009–2011",
"description": [
"One print from the Soundprints series: music-generated imagery made with custom software that translates audio analysis into visual form — frequency content, dynamic envelope and timbral character encoded as shape, colour and composition. The series has been shown at venues across Denmark and in China."
],
"images": [
{
"src": "media/vectral-quadobject-gridtest5.jpg",
"caption": "Soundprint — crimson and violet with pale blue"
}
]
},
{
"id": "soundprint-09",
"title": "Soundprint 09",
"collections": [
"graphics-prints"
],
"type": "Print",
"year": "2009–2011",
"description": [
"One print from the Soundprints series: music-generated imagery made with custom software that translates audio analysis into visual form — frequency content, dynamic envelope and timbral character encoded as shape, colour and composition. The series has been shown at venues across Denmark and in China."
],
"images": [
{
"src": "media/vectral-vb1.jpg",
"caption": "Soundprint — teal, red and white"
}
]
}
]
}