Joëlle McGovern
sound design composition multichannel installationperformer & performance maker*
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Play Pen Prodigy (Sofie Winther x SOS Megazine)
Platform, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, 2025(link)
Photos by Kirstine Autze
Photos by Kirstine Autze
Photos by Kirstine Autze
Artist and installation: Sofie Winther
Musician, recording artist and performer: Joëlle McGovern
Covering “Sex Noll Tvä” by KSMB
Fordelen ved at være Ordblind (Julie Nymann)
Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, 2024(link)
Photos by Julie Nymann
Photos by Julie Nymann
Photos by Julie Nymann
Photos by Julie Nymann
Photos by Julie Nymann
Artist and script: Julie Nymann
Sound designer and dramaturgical consultant: Joëlle McGovern
»samlet union« composer & producer: Agnes Valbjørn Stavnsbjerg
Narrator: Jonas Kjeldgaard Sørensen, Mette Moltke Wozniak, Julie Nymann
Voices: Limfjordskolen Struer, Ordblindeklubben Nørre Nissum, FGU Vesterbro, Anette Marcher, Kim Lykkegaard and Marie Vedsmand
Technical coordination: Kristine Bech Sørensen
Technical assistance: Nikolaj N. Phillipsen, Keith Allan, Tilda Lundbohm
Sound design and dramaturgy consultant for an 8 channel multichannel installation “Fordelen ved at være Ordblind” (The advantages of being dyslexic) by artist Julie Nymann.
Rumsans, Sound and Scent
Copenhagen Architecture Festival, Copenhagen, 2022(link)
Idea and research architect: Victoria Linn Lygum
Sound design and installation: Joëlle McGovern
Sound design consultant: Peter Albrechtsen
Sound design and public installation for a 9 channel multichannel installation for the architecture research group Rumsans as part of the Copenhagen Architecture Festival with sound design consultant Peter Albrechtsen.
Clinamina
The Danish National School of Performing Arts, Copenhagen, 2022Artist, sound design and installation: Joëlle McGovern
Acoustic consultant: Eddy Bøgh Brixen
Conceptual consultant: Lugh O'Neill
School consultant: Ditlev Brinth
Human microphones: Simon Richardt, Julie Østengaard, Johannes Falkenstroem Tougaard, Ottavia Catenacci, Ditlev Brinth
Production help: Production department of the Danish National School of Performing Arts
An 8 channel recording played back through a 16.2 multichannel sound system, meticulously recreating and manipulating the acoustic space of Christianshavn metro station in Copenhagen. An investigation in behavioural codes embedded in familiar acoustic spaces, activated architecture and the phenomenological affect that derives from side-stepping the acousitc norm. BFA project for The Danish National School of Performing Arts in the sound design specialisation.
“A metro station is a rare, confined space within the chaotic schedule of a city where various temporalities meet. Certain patterns emerge, like that of commuters’ movement and behaviour. How would the patterns transform over time when the sonic environment ever so minimally deviates from its codified behaviour? A shift of awareness, a contrast, a brief sidestep from our conscious mind. Then, suddenly: the sound reforms to its original state. What lives on when an ephemeral moment has left an internal echo? What do we do with it?”
Young Werther’s Imported Sorrow
The Danish National School of Performing Arts, Copenhagen 2022(link)
Artist, sound design and installation: Joëlle McGovern
Reading group participants: Anne Buff, Marcelle Holdaway, Michael Tree, Steven Wall, Carolyn Nash, Andrew McLean
Light design: Viktor Holm Lauridsen, Mathilde Niemann Hyttel
Directing consultant: Sigrid Johannesen
Acoustic consultant: Eddy B. Brixen
Technical gear “Australia”: Rose Parker, Sound and Audio Engineering Institute, Meanjin (Brisbane), “Australia”
Recording assistance “Australia”: Essa O'Connor
School consultants: Ditlev Brinth (sound), Barbara Wilson (scenography)
A 14.4 multichannel sound installation based on non-indigenous cultural identity through incompatible European story telling in a colonial Australian context. Live-recorded reading group sesion of Goethe’s ‘The Sorrows of Young Werther’ and a facilitated discussion with seven participants in sub-tropical Australia, re-staged in Denmark as speakers in their original sitting position with acompanying sound design and field recordings of the participants’ local rainforests and environment.