Magnus Hansen - Atomic Echoes
About: Magnus Hansen is a Danish sound designer and creative producer working across theatre, live music, and contemporary art. His practice moves between emotional resonance and technical precision.
Educated at The Danish National School of Performing Arts, Hansen has spent over a decade designing and mixing sound for large-scale theatre and live productions. His work is rooted in the craft of theatre sound - using real-world recordings, textures, and musical detail to build authentic and emotionally charged sonic worlds. This foundation informs a growing interest in conceptual and interdisciplinary sound art.
In recent years, Hansen’s practice has expanded internationally through installations such as Home Box Theatre, presented at the Prague Quadrennial (2023), and Atomic Echoes - his first solo project - an immersive sound installation confronting the legacy and ongoing threat of nuclear weapons.
Piece: Atomic Echoes invites listening from within. An immersive sound installation exploring the border between perception and vibration, it transforms sound into touch through a specially developed loudspeaker reaching as low as 13 Hz – frequencies that move through the body rather than the ear. Combined with subtle floor vibrations, the work allows the listener to sense what lies beyond hearing. The piece unfolds through three temporal states – before, during, and after an atomic detonation – tracing a passage from anticipation to impact, and finally into stillness. Throughout the experience, sound shifts between intensity and absence. At a certain moment, visitors are asked to wear hearing protection – to reflect on their own act of listening.