staffanmossenmark
Professor
Composer
Performative Sound Artist

2005 — Sound Polluter

Swedish Television / SVT

During the Mossenmark Festival -96 the Mossenmark Sound Fund was established. The purpose of the fund is to support and stimulate research and artistic work, whose ambition is to reach a grown vigilance around our mutual sound environment. The fund hands out a scholarship every year.

Motivation:
SVT has shown bad judgement due to the choices that have to be made to create good transitions between different items of a programme, by letting jingles constantly be presented in these joints. These, by SVT chosen musical fragments, often “collide” with music from the previous item, creating a “sound zapping” of its worst kind — a sound collage composed without any thought.
SVT obtain a framed box of earplugs.
SVT obtain a framed box of earplugs.
Claes Elfsberg, SVT-representative accepted the award.
Claes Elfsberg, SVT-representative accepted the award.
Claes Elfsberg took the chance to give the audience a line to the motivation and ended with the hope: "Maybe we will get another award at the next years ceremony"
Claes Elfsberg took the chance to give the audience a line to the motivation and ended with the hope: "Maybe we will get another award at the next years ceremony"
All award receivers from left: Eva Glader, Claes Elfsberg, Lena Arthur and Jakob Andreasson
All award receivers from left: Eva Glader, Claes Elfsberg, Lena Arthur and Jakob Andreasson
During the traditional ceremony a new composed fanfare had its first performance.
During the traditional ceremony a new composed fanfare had its first performance.