“Electric Tide” was a sound walk developed for Momentum 13 Biennial in Moss, Norway, in June 2025. The work proposed a one-hour journey from Galleri F15 to the historic Cable House on Jeløya, where one of Norway’s first undersea telegraph cables once landed. Continuing my research into water ecologies, technical infrastructures, and spirituality, Electric Tide approached the Cable House as an oracle of the subtle infrastructures that shape and sustain us. You can access the handout used during the walk here.

After drinking an infusion of artemisia foraged around the gallery to invoke the spirits of daydreaming, participants walked in pairs using blindfolds, exchanging roles halfway through the journey. At a moment of their choosing, each participant read a text from the handout to their blindfolded partner: one excerpted from Ursula K. Le Guin’s The New Atlantis and the other written during residencies in Catania and Bergen. Both texts reflect on listening through the body as a wet interface, tuning into the beings, lifeforms, and electromagnetic energies present with us.

Upon arriving at the Cable House, participants accessed a 20-minute sound piece via a QR code. The composition was built from recordings made on site with a hydrophone, geophone, and electromagnetic sensor. Constructed in 1930 to house a telegraph cable active until the 1970s, the Cable House has become an infrastructural ruin as telecommunications shifted from copper cables to coaxial systems and, later, fiber optics. From metal to glass, from electricity to light. Using an electromagnetic sensor, I could hear ghostly traces of electrical impulses moving through the rusting infrastructure.

The sound composition invited participants to become dolphins and swim through underwater currents of water and energy. Through guided meditation, poetic reflections, and a collective ritual around the Cable House, Electric Tide explored how we might attune ourselves to the visible and invisible forces that connect bodies, technologies, and environments.

To read more about the project, you can also access a text written for a forthcoming publication edited by Momentum curator Morten Søndergaard and to be published by Bloomsbury Press.