From the end of April 2025, we will be showing "Moans and Groans" (2025) by Mads Kjeldgaard here in Notam's presentation room.

Moans and Groans (2025)
- Listening through touch, is a series of vibrating sound sculptures.

The sculptures in Moans and Groans explores this fundamental question: How do we listen with our skin? How does nature with its skin?

These questions are explored through a series of sound sculptures that translate recordings of trees’ movements into vibrations in tree branches. 

Each sculpture contains a vibrator motor. Reusing customised electronics, technology from sex toys, smartphones and gamepads is used to translate sound into vibrations - a tactile language familiar in our modern age through the daily use of consumer electronics. The viewer is invited to touch the sculptures and feel the vibrations they transmit.

The title of the exhibition refers both to the activities of the recorded trees - how they react to movements and wind in their surroundings - as well as to other activities often associated with vibrator motor technology.

Read more about the project and Mads Kjeldgaard here.