Trond’s musing while making sound installations: “Why should sound still have a human presence and expressiveness when there’s no one performing it anymore? (..) Is interaction nothing but a cheap workaround for this problem, leaving responsibility of presence to the audience?”

Oh no. “How’s my dwarf hamster?” my daughter asks, on the phone from her grandparents’ moutain cabin. Oh, fine, I say, walking into her bedroom to check. I stop. “Uh… The cage door’s open. And, uh, the cage is empty.” She doesn’t […]