Silver, Stones and Sparkles by Sól Ey
10 October 2025 – Part of Culture Night
Silver, Stones and Sparkles is a site-specific kinetic sound installation created specially for platform BUNKER’s dome-shaped architecture and strange acoustics.
Across cultures, metallic rattling has been considered to drive away spirits or misfortune. The jingling of the tambourine has historically carried this apotropaic role in the context of rituals, where shimmering sound created a protective circle around participants.
In Silver, Stones and Sparkles, visitors are invited to step inside a giant tambourine, controlled by a mechanical system. The tambourine’s jingles, traditionally crafter from rocks, metals and silver, create a sonic choreography. The piece acts as an architectural extension of the bunker, where resonance offers shelter from the spirits of the outside world.
Sól Ey is a transdisciplinary artist from Iceland, based in Copenhagen. She works across performance, interactive installation, and instrument design, creating immersive environments that combine sound, movement, light, space, and the body. Using DIY electronics, sensors, and self-built wearable instruments, her practice explores how technology and objects can extend and control bodies and behaviour.
Often working site-specifically, she treats context as an active component shaped by history, social codes, and invisible structures. Her projects begin with philosophical or speculative questions emerging from the context in which they are presented. The works develop through material studies, sensory experiments, and attention to the origins of the media she uses.
Her artistic research focuses on the body as a medium. An ongoing question in her practice is how technology alters bodies, perception, and the ways people relate to one another.
Credits
Concept, composition and ceramics by Sól Ey
Technical assistance by Nolan Lem
Photos by Ole Akhøj
This project was supported by The Danish Arts Foundation, The Danish Composers’ Society, Culture Night, Frederiksbergfonden, Frederiksberg Kommune, KODA Kultur, Statens Kunstfond and William Demant Fonden.