Morten Norbye Halvorse

Morten Norbye Halvorsen practice revolves around sound art as he experiments with ways of listening to sound and recording sound. A lot of Mortens sound recordings involve overlapping and synchronising different sound recordings. For instance the first piece he spoke about was a recording he made everyday for a week in a public room where performance pieces would take place, On the first day of the week Morten recorded the performance pieces occurring in the public room the next day he played the recording from the day before whilst also recording the events of the public room that day and the next day was the same, this occurred for an entire week. By the end of the week there was an overlapping of all these recordings. Morten has made similar works to this such as his sound recording that started with a lot of familiar relaxing sounds such as waves on a beach and then suddenly these relaxing sound where overtook by dramatic noises that weren't as recognisable such as strong winds and alien like sounds. Mortens projects like this one are very individual meaning the audience tends to experience different things to one another as the certain elements of the piece rely on whether the person can recognise the sound and what there association with the sound is. 

I personally don't really like Halvorsen's work and didn't find the lecture interesting. Sound work isn't really something I would experiment with or use in my own practice, so I didn't find this lecture very useful however I did find the current project that Morten is working on interesting as he is recording frequencies that humans can't here and is changing the hertz so that we can now here them, making the unknown known, which i think is pretty cool.