Phloem Sap invites the listener into an imagined ecosystem of sound, where memories, landscapes and sonic textures flow through and between us like an invisible current. Through an interplay of field recordings and synthesis, Jenny Berger Myhre and Niklas Adam create a quadraphonic audio-visual experience that reflects on how sound connects humans and their environments.

Phloem Sap is inevitably about how experience and knowledge invisibly gets transported through us and stored within and between us. By creating suggestive sound worlds, Jenny and Niklas wish to encourage their listeners to seep into their own imagery and associations. Inspired by writers like Robin Wall Kimmerer and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, the artists are speculating on how different sounds could belong to each other, inasmuch as how human beings could belong to the natural environment.

Phloem Sap — a quadraphonic audio-visual live performance commissioned by BEK.

JENNY BERGER MYHRE AND NIKLAS ADAM

Jenny Berger Myhre (b. 1991) and Niklas Adam (b. 1986) are interdisciplinary artists with roots in sound practices. Both have deep interests in soundscapes and sonic environments, coming at the topic from two different angles; field recording and synthesis. In Phloem Sap, their first collaborative project, they make use of both these sound sources to create imaginary spaces. Through sampling and re-imagining sounds, Niklas and Jenny are investigating early memories of experiencing landscapes; how spaces live within our memories and dreams; and how the feeling of a place can be manifested in sound and music.

When I walk in nature, in the forest or mountain, or on a rocky sea side, I disappear and reappear continuously. I look down at the path, where my feet carefully maneuver the uneven surface and wet rocks and roots; I am six years old, feeling like a giant moving through a vast landscape. The roots become valleys and the rocks are mountain passes, the moss pits are forests with canopies. And when I come to think of it — for an overwhelming number of microscopic beings, I actually am a landscape.

Part of BEK symposium The Only Lasting Truth is Change: Voice, Seed, Brutality.
21–23 November 2025
Bergen, Norway