This exhibition is a result of a collaboration departing from a shared experience with musical instruments. In different ways, Melstrøm and Ham communicate how the instrument can come to represent the concept of the in-between, as transitional objects marking different phases in ones life, or as carriers of contrasting qualities such as resonance and resistance. Instruments acquiring a sentient voice of their own, speaking to us as much as we try to speak through them.
Eirik Melstrøm (1987) is a bachelor student at KMD, mediating between visual arts and a career as a practicing musician.
Tijs Ham (1981) is a PhD Candidate in Artistic Research at the KMD, focusing on tipping points in chaotic processes in relation to new electronic music instruments.