Bella Comsom
As Far as the Sea Can Reach
Between Two Seas
At the shoreline: I was searching for the point where the two sides of the sea met. There was a thin strip of land dividing the sea in two. In the recording, I am positioned on this line, listening between the two seas. Two seas, because the land divided them, according to the moon, the season, and the time of day. It was 11:16 in the morning on the island, during a waning moon. If the horizon line defines the end of what is seen from the sea, what would define the end from the land? And what would it be like to listen to this boundary?
— Bella Comsom, 2025
Bella Comsom. Photo: Natalia Joga.
Bella Comsom. Photo: Natalia Joga.
About Bella Comsom
Transdisciplinary artist Bella Comsom explores sound and its physical aspects as a composer of conceptual pieces, commissioned works, and experimental electronic music. With a particular focus on electromagnetic fields, she designs specialised antennas that amplify this inaudible spectrum. Her diverse practice includes sound installation, audiovisual, radio art and live performance.
Slow waves crash against the shoreline of the Atlantic island of La Gomera.
An audio essay about the so-called quiet zone in the Copenhagen S-train system.
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Sound fishing in the third landscape between the rural and the urban. A collection of field recordings made while searching for something else.
12 hours, 15 minutes and 7 seconds of minimalist background music. And a bag of tea.
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Trancy drums and prepared piano improvisations from two of Copenhagen's finest instrumentalists.
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Slow ambient piano looping with the window open and the outside world seeping in.
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