Niklas Hald and Anders Aare

We want to investigate how actors and sound designers can meet in a work outside the traditional framework by challenging our respective processes and needs in a laboratory project without the requirement to arrive at a finished performance. 

Purpose: Often the sound designer and the actor meet far too late in the production for an open investigative work to take place. We want to investigate and challenge the untapped potential that we see in the meeting between two abilities in the performing arts. Goal: Challenge our established processes by meeting earlier. What: How can sound design and acting work together to create an aural atmosphere at an earlier stage that facilitates stepping into a fictional situation - both from an acting and sound design perspective? We want to investigate the importance of the sound being included from the start in the acting process. How: Define our respective processes – what do these look like? What is central?

We’ve had two workshop weeks, one year apart, and we started from texts we had never worked with before - the first was The Moon's monologue, from Federico Garcia Lorca's Blood Wedding and the second time we worked with Prologue to Rosa Luxemburg, from Elfride Jelinek's Aber sicher!. These workshop weeks were interspersed with practical work on the floor and reflective conversations. We also each kept a work diary during the entire work period. A reflective summarizing text is published on DIVA and Research Catalogue. The project has been presented publicly on three occasions during SKH's recurring research weeks.

2021 - 2024