Krat- Skoven Sover

Krat is a performative walk that leads the audience through the forest at night time.

Originally created for the forest around Ekkodalen on Bornholm, the work reinterprets the landscape through sound, movement, sight and interactive installations.

The above photograph is the score for Composition for Metronomes and Tectonic Plates.

Bornholm sits on two tectonic plates and as a result has a fault line running along its middle. This is most pronounced at Ekkodalen, where one plate rises and forms a cliff. Many people visit this spot to walk the adjacent path and make sounds to hear the echo.

To give people an alternative experience of this popular attraction, I placed seven mechanical metronomes at various points along the path adjacent to the cliff. The metronomes where set to a BPM which gave an echo from the cliff that was perfectly in time with the metronome - as a call and response.

Due to the varying distance between the meandering path and the cliff face, the seven metronomes had to be set at varying tempi.

As the performances took place on an evening, the participants of the walk could not see the cliff. They instead experienced the wall sonically and had to use their ears to picture the topography of Ekkodalen. As they moved along the path, the individual metronomes and their echoes merged with and then separated from the subsequent metronomes along the route. The audience essentially walked the physical score at their own tempo.

Bornholms Kulturuge

Dave Black, Laura Navndrup, Anna Navndrup