2025 | installation with music and lights
Photo: Roman-Sten Tõnissoo
6-channel sound installation with music and lights, premiered at the festival Walls Have Ears, ARS Art Factory, Tallinn, 2025. Spruce 2.2 is an installation version of Spruce 2 (2024). Read more about Spruce 2.
In a dim studio room, three pieces of spruce plywood and two thin metal sheets hung from the ceiling, each with various found objects and vibration speakers attached. Additionally, a speaker element was placed on a box, also made of spruce plywood. The sound piece produced by these items—consisting of abstract, minimalist music and soundscapes—was accompanied by soft, shifting lights.
Cycle duration: 9′
Curators of festival Walls Have Ears: Sten Saarits and Taavi Varm
Co-produced with Kanuti Gildi SAAL (Spruce 2)
Supported by Eesti Kultuurkapital
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Video and audio editing: Lauri Lest
Thumbnail photo: Roman-Sten Tõnissoo
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Spruce 2.2 at festival Walls Have Ears 2025, photos by Roman-Sten Tõnissoo
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Technical and organisational details
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Description
Five abstract sculptures — three made of spruce plywood and two of thin metal sheets — are hanging from the ceiling. Each sculpture carries an assemblage of attached materials: fragments of metal net, twisted metal rope, thin metal sheets, pieces of plastic, and other found objects.
Different vibration speakers are mounted on each sculpture. An additional speaker element is placed either on a spruce plywood box or directly on the floor, if the space has a wooden floor. Stage lights are directed toward each sculpture and the speaker element. The installation plays an original composition of sound and dim light.
Cycle duration: 9′
Room requirements
Minimum room size: 6×6 m, height 3 m
As dark and quiet as possible.
Possibility to hang 5 objects from the ceiling.
Security
The installation includes a computer and audio and lighting equipment.
Transportation
To be discussed…
Lauri Lest 