Odd(e) S(o)und(s)

From Oddesund to Odd(e) S(o)und(s)

11 international artists remix Oddesund into Odd Sounds and invite the public to experience this iconic place as a living and sensorial soundscape while celebrating the Pentecost sun.

Over the course of 24 hours, the sounds of the landscape are transformed and recreated into diverse interpretations that can be experienced inside the dark concrete bunkers, along the gentle coastline, and beneath the noisy bridge.

Sounds carried by wind and waves, rolling stones and screaming trains, electric engines and soft sails, crawling insects and flying birds — and by us humans.

The sounds have been collected, assembled, composed, and curated by 11 international sound artists who have wandered through and listened to this very special landscape.

Saturday begins at 13:00 with the opening of Stine Deja’s installation in the Regelbau 411 bunker. From 14:00 onwards, a continuous program unfolds throughout the landscape with interwoven sound installations in the bunkers, sound walks, vocal performances, and time-based interventions until 21:00, when the day culminates in burning embers and crackling flames.

After a short night, the audience is invited back on Sunday morning for a sunrise bonfire accompanied by gentle sounds, tones, and movements, opening the day’s program from 08:30 to 14:00.

PROGRAM

Detailed lineup and schedule here.

Saturday, May 23

13:00 / Opening of Kunsthal Regelbau 411’s new exhibition by Stine Deja

14:00 – 22:00 / Ongoing program

Sunday, May 24

8:00 – 14:00 / Ongoing program

Participating Artists:

Regelbau 411
Stine Deja

Performing Landscapes
Katrine Faber
Jørgen Teller
Astrid Randrup
Alex Mørch

89 Sound Art School
Martha Suzana
Theres K Agdler
Tricia Enns
Jason Clark
Doowon Lee
Pola Trabinska

ARTIST + WORK DESCRIPTION – Regelbau 411

Stine Deja – There’s Life Inside
There’s Life Inside is inspired by scientific studies in which human behavior is observed and analyzed.
In Regelbau 411, it is not humans studying the visitors, but robots that, through observation, train their ability to behave like humans.

Stine Deja is a visual artist based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Her work explores the effects of technological development on our psychology, living conditions, and behavioral patterns. By combining extensive conceptual research with an otherworldly aesthetic and satirical humor, Deja’s works offer an absurd and critical perspective on the future of human culture.

REGELBAU 411

Regelbau 411 is an art space for Danish and international sound, light, and video art, located in the heart of Scandinavia. Situated in two former bunkers and in close interaction with the windswept landscape of Oddesund, the art space creates a setting for distinctive and unusual encounters between art and its surroundings.

ARTIST + WORK DESCRIPTIONS – Performing Landscapes / Metropolis:

KATRINE FABER – Stemmeskabet, Sangdansen og Sorgsangen
– a tribute to Æ Skawmand and Oddesund

Based on the landscape at Oddesund and the story of the “Skabsmanden,” who lived for more than 40 years in a cabinet on the beach, Katrine Faber creates a work about the power of connection, the shared experience of grief, and kinship with all living things.

The work consists of three parts: Stemmeskabet on the beach, a tribute to Æ Skawmand; Sangdansen on the beach, a tribute to the landscape and all living things; and Sorgsangen in the bunker, a tribute to grief, pain, love, and what continues to live within us. Stemmeskabet can also be experienced continuously as a sound installation on the beach.

KATRINE FABER is a performing and vocal artist, singer, composer, storyteller, stage director, and installation artist. She is the artistic director of Teater Viva, which expands the concept of theatre into an artistic space where we can encounter ourselves, each other, and our living surroundings in an expanded resonance. www.teaterviva.dk

JØRGEN TELLER – Sol Sund

Jørgen Teller creates a panorama- and pulse-based work that reflects on the tides, the heartbeat, and the sun’s relentless daily rhythm. Teller can be heard in a performative setting in the landscape around the bunkers and along the shoreline.

JØRGEN TELLER is a composer, guitarist, electronic musician, and vocalist. He works across a wide field of sound sources and compositional expressions. In recent years, his compositional work has focused on the interaction between a specific place and a conceptual approach.

ASTRID RANDRUP – Rust

Astrid Randrup invites us up close to a material we normally just walk past: rusted iron. Here, rust is not a sign of decay – but proof of life. The iron breathes, and rust is its trace. We explore the iron, listen to its sound, and observe its changing colors.

Together, we explore rust as something that connects industry, nature, and the body – as part of the landscape we live in. Rust becomes a mirror of our own changeability – a material that reminds us that transformation is part of being alive.

ABOUT ASTRID RANDRUP is a visual artist working across sound art, performance, photography, and participatory projects where materiality, body, and space play central roles. She involves audiences as active co-creators while exploring symbolism, community, and sensory experience. www.astridrandrup.dk

ALEX MØRCH – Sonum Danica

Sound artist Alex Mørch transforms the landscape into a living sound installation with the hidden tones of its surroundings. Using hypersensitive microphones, he captures and amplifies otherwise inaudible resonances of the landscape: monotone vibrations, deep frequencies, and subtle movements. In the encounter between technology, chance, and place, a unique soundscape emerges that exists only here, only now.

In recent years, Alex Mørch has transformed background noise into resonant soundscapes in more than 150 landscapes across Denmark.

Alex Mørch is a composer and sound artist. He integrates spatial installation, noisy machinery, traditional musicians, performance, and light. Time, intimacy, context, existentialism, absurdity, and technology are interwoven in works ranging from performative concerts to exhibitions and public spaces. Noise and harmony, chaos and synchronicity. www.alexmorch.com / www.sonumdanica.dk

PERFORMING LANDSCAPES

Performing Landscapes is a nationwide project that brings together artists exploring how art can bring us closer to the world of teeming life that we are part of – in nature, in the landscapes, and within ourselves.

Through art, they investigate how to open up new experiences and perspectives on how we can live more sustainably and in an equal relationship with our surroundings.

Performing Landscapes is organized by Metropolis – Copenhagen International Theatre.

ARTIST + WORK DESCRIPTIONS – 89 Sound Art School

Martha Suzana – Sound worms No.1

Sound Worms No. 1 consists of two sound sculptures made from wild natural clay: one contains a synthesizer circuit, and the other a speaker unit. The work explores the interaction between clay and electronic sound synthesis, investigating resonance, vibration, and their porous, conductive relationship.

Martz a.k.a. Martha Suzana is a multimedia artist with 10 years of experience as a film sound designer who, in recent years, has begun exploring the intersection of sound, materials, and bodies through an artistic lens. She/they hold a Bachelor’s degree in Communication with an emphasis in Film Studies from the University of Brasília and a postgraduate degree in Sound Studies from the International School of Film and TV in Cuba. Their practice investigates “non-sonic” materials (clay, wool, fabric) alongside small synthesizers integrated into their matter, creating what they describe as sonic figures – or parasites.

Theres K Agdler – Portraits of a Landscape, diptych, 2026

Soundinstallation. 3 speakers, wooden/metal structure.
Fieldrecordings from two sites in three different layers.

a) Venø færgen – The Venø ferry, 56.516431, 8.615221,
b) Oddesundbroen – The Oddesund bridge 56.578321, 8.558503

Theres K Agdler (CH/SE) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Östersund, Sweden. Her practice centers on site-specific investigations, artistically realised through installation, sculpture, sound, performance, film, and photography.

Tricia Enns – Living Fragments

A work that explores the sonic and aliveness of fragments – gathered, found, and lost – and what emotional, memorial and sensorial qualities these pieces carry with them.

Tricia Enns (she/they) is a multi-disciplinary artist who explores the narrative qualities of place and time through playful employment of low- and high- tech approaches, sonic and otherwise, often with others, human and more-than. Tricia has a Master’s degree in Design and Computational Arts at Concordia University (Montreal; 2023), has presented work at Pratt Institute (NYC; 2023), artch (Montreal; 2024), Bath Spa University (United Kingdom; 2024), and HTMlles Festival (Montreal; 2026), and been supported by Ada X (Montreal), BKN (Sweden), CALQ, mom and dad, friends and sometimes foes. Tricia’s delve into the sonic landscape is fairly recent, their hope is to gather overlooked waveforms to interrogate how memories, histories, and knowledge are made.

Jason Clark //// freelink – …but in any case, one could at least close the doors and windows while the executions are taking place.

The rib cage of a cyborg pig. Harvested for all its flesh and organs. Left in a dormant state between death and persistence. The remains of a body sustained only by the faintest pulse of electrical current left in its circuitry. Uncovered by a group of archaeologists in an abandoned Nazi bunker. These skeletal remains were found suspended from the ceiling, resembling a fetish of component worship. An ossuary of technological alterlife.

Sonic paradigm architect. Sound artist. Experimental musician. dj. Based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. My current experimentations focus on feedback, resonance, and space. A relationship with sound that prioritises responding through listening, rather than attempting to control. My main aim in my work is to create sonic or sound situations that distract, confuse, and expose how we listen. Finding its form in installations, performances, media works, and sound.

Doowon Lee – Insectile Synthesis

Doowon Lee creates work that connects human and non human worlds through sound and design. They are currently focused on the texture and spatiality of insect sounds.

Doowon Lee is a South Korean sound artist whose practice explores the relationship between human society and ecology through sound and design.

Pola Trabinska – We Hope Our Message Finds You Well

We Hope Our Message Finds You Well begins with walking, cassette recordings and subtle interventions within the landscape made in Øddesund. Suspended from former railway testing structures, fragments of wind, disembodied voices, and feedback circulate as a residual and fragile transmission of signals without clear origin, returning from the surroundings.

𝓟𝓸𝓵𝓸𝔀𝓪𝓷𝓲𝓮 a.k.a. Pola Trabinska is a Warsaw experimental musician and producer working with voice, live electronics, field recordings, sound-documentary works, and installation. Her projects combine trance-like structures, improvised vocals, degraded recordings, and minimal lyrical forms, exploring themes of memory, perception, and unstable communication. She creates sonic environments through intimacy, repetition, and interference.

89 Sound Art School

89 Sound Art School is an experimental learning community and an educational platform for sound art, created in collaboration between Sound Art Lab and Uddannelsesinitiativet in Struer, Denmark. The school emerges from Struer’s unique sound ecology – the “City of Sound” – and offers an alternative to traditional universities and art schools. Here, learning is based on “learning by doing” and is developed collectively through knowledge-sharing, creation, and experimentation.
The name 89 refers to the 89 days one can stay in Denmark on a tourist visa, giving the school an international focus with participants from around the world.