Telemegaphone Dale stands seven metres tall on top of the Bergskletten mountain overlooking the idyllic Dalsfjord in Western Norway.
When you dial the Telemegaphone’s phone number the sound of your voice is projected out across the fjord, the valley and the village of Dale below.
Special hats off for the team of horn-carriers who volunteered to help us carry a ton of stuff up the steep mountain in the blazing sun: Les Joynes, Bjørn Kowalski Hansen, Svein Ove Løseth, Maria Petschatnikov, Natalia Petschatnikov, Helga Steppan, Åsa Ståhl, and David Zadig, we owe you big time and will remember this collective effort for ever!
Standing ovations to Bora Yoon for composing and performing the first ever Telemegaphone Concerto for the opening cermony. It was magnificient to hear her clear voice cut through the mountain mists, accompanied by rainfall and the sound of a chainsaw far off in the distance.
Telemegaphone Dale is generously supported by Nordic Culture Point, Unsworn Industries and nkd - nordic artists’ centre in dale. Special thanks to Elísabet Gunnarsdóttir, Nicklas Marélius, Svein Ove Løseth, landowner Ingolf Viken, and Jörgen Bladh at Kylprodukter i Kivik.
Telemegaphone Dale is temporarily closed so as not to interfere with the annual deer hunt.
We are scouting locations for future telemegaphones and have recieved many interesting suggestions.
Telemegaphones are tall loudspeaker sculptures that automatically answers incoming phone calls and projects the sound of the caller's voice into its immediate surroundings.
9 May 2009
Telemegaphone Dale 4-ever
17 October 2008
Daily life with Telemegaphone Dale
17 October 2008
Telemegaphone hike
25 September 2008
Telemegaphone Birmingham?
24 September 2008
The world talks about Telemegaphone Dale