Loud Speakers

Johanna Sandels (SE) (ft. Herman Skrinde (SE))
07/11-29/11

Kolboxen was designed by the Swedish sound pioneer Stig Carlsson in 1953 and discontinued in 1962. It was designed to work in any home. To bring high fidelity to the people.
His apprentice at the time said that the first prototype was made using a paper waste bin from the Royal Academy of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden. That is where Stig worked at that time. The measurements and tests of the speaker were made in ordinary living rooms. That is where he wanted the speaker to end up.
“If you want other speakers to sound as good as my new ones, you'll have to cover your entire living room with Rockwool,” he said.

His apprentice left the speaking to Stig, and became interested in the acoustics of rooms. Spending his time studying the acoustics of big and small rooms he changed the method and made the room so good that any speaker would speak well.

Johanna Sandels (Stockholm b. 1996) works with the process of translation. She builds recorders, speakers, installations, and sets rules for performances where she uses repetition as a means of dissecting sound and meaning. A recurring noun in her practice is väsen, which can be translated to: essence, noise, beings from folklore, disturbance, or a collective body such as a government agency (statligt väsen).

Herman Skrinde (Drammen b. 2001) works with standards. So many things are the same. Or maybe they are different. He finds materials, and uses them over and over again. Related to architecture he makes imitations by hand. Asking how something can become something else. His drawings are drawn, and poems written, in a green notebook which has been refilled for the second time using scrap paper.

Graphic design: Elīna Salnāja
Exhibition supported by SCCF, Tālava cider
Special thanks to Ingemar Ohlsson, Krisjanis Belavskis and Oto Holgers Ozolins

ERNESTA BIRZNIEKA-UPISA STREET 15-5, RIGA WED—SAT 16:00—20:00