Wind and Water

The venue for the Harmonic Fields installation is Amager Strandpark (English: Amager Beach Park). It is a seaside public park in Copenhagen near Kastrup Airport. It is located on the island of Amager and includes an artificial island and offers a total of 4,6 km of beaches.

Perfect venue

Amager Strandpark is a Blue Flag beach and the adjacent Kastrup Marina as well as the nearby Dragør Marina also enjoy Blue Flag status. From the beach the Middelgrunden wind farm can be seen in the horrison.

Open to all

Copenhagen offers much for its people and this is no exception: It is magnificent and beautiful and intense. It is full of life and changeable. It is open and accessible for all. It is free for all. It is art in public space when it is best.

Just listening

Photography is discouraged, not for copyright reasons, but because Sauvageot wants to reintroduce the lost art of listening. "Of course I want people to look, but what I really want is for them to hear," he says. "Harmonic Fields is a reaction against decibels and megawatts. It is music in its simplest, most primal form."

Pure enjoyment

Perhaps not immediately “musical” by conventional standards, the installation is none-the-less an aural treat and Copenhagers and visitors took full advantage of this opportunity to experience it.

This shows part of the "Harmonic Fields" installation on AmagerStrand.

Enjoying nature's orchestra

This experience was inspired 20 years ago by traditional Indonesian scarecrows that harnessed natures gusts to emit sounds that rang across the rice fields. Sadly, these have now been replaced by plastic bags and new ones are not being made anymore.

Tending the totem

An attendant makes sure the wind-instruments in this part of the "Harmonic Fields" exhibition is facing into the wind. The exhibition was held on Amager Strand and enthusiastically supported by people from the Greater Copenhagen area and tourists alike.

Admiring the wind-instruments

This group of Copenhagers came to Amager Strandpark to admire the selection of instruments placed there during the Metroplois Festival 2011. The exhibition is called "Harmonic fields and is by Pierre Sauvageot. Five hundred acoustic instruments, mostly on totems standing like sentinels, attentive to the slightest breath of air, was placed here.

Harmonics and harmony

With Øresund as backdrop, Amager Strand as its stage and the wind as energy the French composer Pierre Sauvageot and the artist group Lieux Publics & Cie, from Marseille, have created this art experience for Københavns Internationale Teater and the third Metropolis Biennale.