Description
Edition of 100 copies in silkscreened PVC-sleeve.
Personfølsom Musik (Personal Sensitive Music) is a series of live sonifications in which Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard translates the numbers of NemID-keycards into music using various musical instruments.
NemID (EasyID) keycards came into use in 2010 and contain a list of one-time codes that one uses as a level of security when logging into private and public digital platforms to access services like banking, health care, and other services vital to individuals in Danish society.
When an individual uses all the codes on a NemID-keycard, the keycard remains as a record of the person’s activities over a period of time. It is also an expression of privilege, since the NemID [system] facilitates access to the benefits of the Danish welfare state in one of the world’s richest societies.
Through his Personfølsom Musik (Personal Sensitive Music) series of works, Løkkegaard explores the NemID-keycard as a phenomenon which is on the one hand anonymous and alienating and on the other, private and personal.
This release features the recordings by Løkkegaard playing two different NemID-keycards, W807-345-296 and Y453-199-562, on a church organ.
Recorded at Koncertkirken in December 2020.
Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard is a Danish multidisciplinary artist. Working within the domains of imaginary & physical sound as well as other non-sonic media, Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard considers his work to be a basic research in realities. He was educated at the RMC in Copenhagen and the School of Architecture at The Royal Danish Academy of Art, and his work has been awarded with several prizes and been presented at a variety of different venues and museums around the world.
