A Different Set of Ears: The Egholm Alliance is a sonic art project and audio essay.
The project takes its point of departure in the Danish national government’s controversial decision to build a highway across Egholm – a rural island located in the Limfjord waters near the city of Aalborg, Denmark. Egholm is often promoted by the local municipality as a calm and silent refuge for humans, and as a unique natural setting just outside the post-industrial urban periphery. The island is home to much animal and plant life that will be greatly impacted by the mega-project Egholmlinjen. Therefore, to understand the place from other perspectives, in A Different Set of Ears: The Egholm Alliance, Morten Poulsen listens together with the island – its inhabitants and local citizens who organize against the highway, but also the fauna and flora – including a very special willow tree. Weaving together a post-human sensation of entanglement, the audio essay proposes a change in our listening position, that can afford us with means to create new narratives about the relation between ourselves and the environments we are a part of.
Field marker for the projected path of the Egholm highway (photo taken in February 2025)
The project premiered on Radio Alhara on March 26th 2025
This project was supported by The Danish Arts Foundation.
A special thank you to Radio Alhara, Huset i Hasserisgade, Korma, Louise Faber, Henrik Mørch, Rosanna Børsting, Henrik Sakstrup, Urt Willemoes, Annika Holmes, Marilia Fotopoulou, Thomas Munk-Petersen, Bente Jensen, Mikhail Karikis, Scott Raaby, Rikke Ehlers Nilsson, and the geese, the three coloured cat, the cows, the willow tree and the otters.
