Participants
Jim G. Thirlwell (US) sound artist
JG Thirlwell is a composer/producer/performer based in Brooklyn. He was born in Melbourne, Australia,where he studied art at Melbourne State College for two years before moving to London in 1978. After working with experimental group Nurse With Wound, JG started making his own records in 1980, initially releasing them with his own label, Self Immolation. He then relocated to NYC in 1983 where he still lives in Brooklyn.
JG's catalog is extensive,under many pseudonyms including Foetus (and multiple variations thereof), Steroid Maximus, Manorexia, Baby Zizanie, Wiseblood and others.If there is a common thread to his varied musical styles it is a dramatic intensity and an evocative, cinematic quality.
In recent years,with works for Kronos Quartet, LEMUR and Bang On A Can, and in his occasional eighteen piece ensemble he has been increasingly interested electronically and sample generated music being rescored for traditional instrumentation played both conventionally and not. JG also performs with a chamber ensemble version of his Manorexia project. He scores "The Venture Brothers" show on Adult Swim/ Cartoon Network.
www.foetus.org
www.myspace.com/foetus
Finnbogi Pétursson (ISL) sound artist
Born on 19.11.1959 in Reykjavik
Lives and works in Iceland
Education:
1979 - 1983 The Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts, Iceland
1983 - 1985 Jan Van Eyck Akademie, Holland
Selected private exhibitions:
2005 Elements, the watertanks, Reykjavík Arts Festival
2004 Art Unlimited, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
2004 Geometric ligth house, (Permanent work) Akureyri
2003 A. Sveinsson Museum, the Dome, Reykjavik, "SPHERE"
2002 Orchard Gallery, Derry, N- Ireland "DIABOLUS"
2002 Reykjavik Art Festival, Reykjavik theatre "CONVERSATION"
2002 National Gallery of Iceland "DIABOLUS"
2002 Gothenburg Konstmusem, Gothenburg, Sweden "C. CUBES"
2001 la Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy "DIABOLUS"
1999 i8, Reykjavik, Iceland
1997 Sjonthing F.P., Gerduberg and Sjonarholl, Reykjavik, Iceland
1996 Slunkariki, Isafjordur, Iceland
1995 Cafe Mokka, Reykjavik, Iceland
1991 The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, "CIRCLE and LINE"
1989 Gallery Krokur, Reykjavik, Iceland "DRAWINGS"
1988 The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
1987 Time Based Arts, Amsterdam, Holland
Selected group exhibitons:
2005 Carnegie art award, various countries until 2007
2005 freq-out, Paris, France
2005 Lorna, The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
2005 praying for silence, Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, Germany
2004 freq-out, Oslo, Norway
2004 ein-leuchten, Museum Der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
2004 Galleri 100°, Reykjavík, Iceland
2003 Masters of the Third Dimension, LA, Akureyri, Iceland
2003 D!sturbances, Charlottenbog, Cobenhagen, Denmark
2002 Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
2002 Camp Hofn, Hornafjordur, Iceland
2002 Living Art Museum, Reykjavik Iceland
2002 Roda Sten, Gothenburg, Sweden
2001 Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. USA
2001 Camp Lejre, Lejre, Denmark
2001 Goteborg Biennale, Gallery 54 Gothenburg, Sweden
2001 SculptureCenter, New York, USA
2000 National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
1999 Galerie Michael Sturm, Stuttgart, Germany
1999 Galerie Schuppenhauer, Koln, Germany
1999 Galleri Stefan Andersson, Umea, Sweden
1999 Galerie Artek, Helsinki, Finland
1999 Centre Regional D´Art, Sete, France
1998 Museeum de Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, France
1998 Memorian Exhibition of Dieter Roth, Seydisfjordur, Iceland
1997 Museum of Contemporary Art, Vilenius
1995 4th. International Istanbul Biennial, Turkey
1995 Kunsthalle, Helsinki, Finland
1995 La Hora Del Norte, Madrid and Barcelona, Spain
1995 Ars 95, Helsinki, Finland
1994 Kjarvalsstadir, Reykjavik, Iceland "ÁTTIR"
1993 Akureyri Art Museum, Akureyri, Iceland
1993 National Gallery of Iceland, Borealis IV, "PENDULUM"
1993 The Ujazdowski Castle Warsaw and Gallery Wyspa, Gdansk
1992 Reykjavik Art Festival, "MOBILE"
1991 Kunst, Europa, Kolnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
1985 Gele Rijder, Arnhem. Holland, "WAVES"
1985 Dominicanerkerk, Maastricht, Holland
1984 Palazzo, Liestal, Switzerland
Works in public/private collections:
T-B A21, Wien, Austria
Landsvirkjun, Vatnsfellsvirkjun ( Electric power plant )
Reykjavik Energy, headquarters
Malmo Kunst Museum
Safn, Reykjavik Iceland
National Gallery of Iceland
Reykjavik Municipal Art Museum
Akureyri Museum of Art
The Grammar School of Sund
Benny Jonas Nilsen (S) sound artist
Born in 1975. Lives in Sweden
Began working with experimental music and sound at an early stage. He was influenced by the early tape movements and the pioneers of sonic assault and released his first recordings at the age of 15. Founded Hazard in the mid-90s after a couple of years as a guitarist/bass player in several local bands. Has since then focused on the sound of nature and its effect on humans, field recordings and the perception of time and space as experienced through sound. Selected audio works: Fade to white, 2006; The Short Night, 2007. All available through TOUCH
www.bjnilsen.com
Jana Winderen (NO) sound artist & producer/curator
Born 1965. Lives in Norway
Studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, London with a background in mathematics and chemistry from the University of Oslo. Since 1993 she has worked as an artist, curator and producer, initiating and producing several independent international art projects in Bergen and in Oslo. Her most recent sound work is “- 25 metres”, a live hydrophone installation (2008) and "+4°C - from Folgefonna to the North Sea" (2007) at Sleppet during the centenary Greig07. Earlier works include the interactive sound installation "Hard Rain" (2006), based on motion tracking, and the group sound installation “freq_out 6” (2007) curated by Carl Michael von Hausswolff at the Dreamland Burn exhibition in Budapest (2007). Future projects includes "Voices from the Deep" in collaboration with Chris Watson, ”freq_out 7” at Happy New Ears festival in Belgium and a CD release through Touch based on hydrophone recordings from the Icefjord Kianga by Ilulissat in Greenland. Jana has exhibited her work in Canada, China, Thailand, France, Hungary, Denmark, England, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Belgium and Sweden.
CV and more information:
www.janawinderen.com
Brandon LaBelle (US) sound artist
Lives in Berlin
He is an artist and writer working with sound and the specifics of location. Through his work with Errant Bodies Press he has co-edited the anthologies "Site of Sound: Of Architecture and the Ear", "Writing Aloud: The Sonics of Language", and "Surface Tension: Problematics of Site". His work has been featured in exhibitions and festivals internationally, including "Sound as Media"(2000) ICC Tokyo, "Bitstreams"(2001) Whitney, "Pleasure of Language"(2002) Netherlands Media Institute, and "Undercover"(2003) Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde, and his writings have been included in various books and journals, including "Experimental Sound and Radio" (MIT) and "Soundspace: Architecture for Sound and Vision" (Birkhäuser). He presented a solo exhibition at Singuhr galerie in Berlin (2004), and an experimental composition for pirate drummers as part of Virtual Territories, Nantes (2005). His ongoing project to build a library of radio memories, "Phantom Radio", will be presented fall 2006 as part of Radio Revolten, Halle Germany. He is the author of "Background Noise" (Continuum 2006).
www.errantbodies.org/labelle.html
Petteri Nisunen (FI) sound artist
Lives in Finland
Solo shows with Tommi Grönlund: Väinö Aaltosen museo, Turku, 2004;
The 1st at Moderna Museet, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 2004;
Centre d'Art Contemporain la Synagogue de Delme, Delme, 2004;
Gallerie Schipper & Krome, Berlin, 2003; Gallerie Andrehn-Schiptjenko,
Stockholm, 2003; Galleria Sculptor, Helsinki, 2000.
Group shows with Tommi Grönlund: Nr.6 Feel, Z33, Hasselt, 2004;
Berlin North, Hamburger Bahnhoff, Berlin, 2004;
International Biennale for Contemporary Art, Gothenburg Art Museum, Gothenburg, 2003;
Todos somos pecadores, Museo MARCO, Monterrey, Mexico, 2003;
Villette Arts Numériques, La Grande Halle, Parc de la Villette, Paris, 2002;
Todos somos pecadores, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, 2002;
Frequencies [Hz] Audio-Visual Spaces, Schirn Kunstahalle, Frankfurt, 2002;
Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama, 2001; 49th Venice Biennale 2001,
Nordic Pavilion, Venice, 2001; Generation Z, P.S.1 Art Center, New York, 1999.
www.sahkorecordings.com
www.gronlund-nisunen.com
Tommi Grönlund (FI) sound artist
Lives in Finland
Solo shows with Petteri Nisunen: Väinö Aaltosen museo, Turku, 2004;
The 1st at Moderna Museet, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 2004;
Centre d'Art Contemporain la Synagogue de Delme, Delme, 2004;
Gallerie Schipper & Krome, Berlin, 2003; Gallerie Andrehn-Schiptjenko,
Stockholm, 2003; Galleria Sculptor, Helsinki, 2000.
Group shows with Petteri Nisunen: Nr.6 Feel, Z33, Hasselt,
2004; Berlin North, Hamburger Bahnhoff, Berlin, 2004;
International Biennale for Contemporary Art, Gothenburg Art Museum,
Gothenburg, 2003; Todos somos pecadores, Museo MARCO, Monterrey,
Mexico, 2003; Villette Arts Numériques, La Grande Halle, Parc de la Villette,
Paris, 2002; Todos somos pecadores, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, 2002;
Frequencies [Hz] Audio-Visual Spaces, Schirn Kunstahalle, Frankfurt, 2002;
Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama, 2001; 49th Venice Biennale 2001,
Nordic Pavilion, Venice, 2001; Generation Z, P.S.1 Art Center, New York, 1999.
www.sahkorecordings.com
www.gronlund-nisunen.com
PerMagnus Lindborg (S) sound artist
Sweden/Norway 1968 Lives in Singapore
Composer, performer and researcher, PerMagnus Lindborg is a member of the Norwegian Society of Composers since 1996 and Assistant Professor (in Composition and Sound Design) since 2007 at the School of Art|Design|Media at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Lindborg studied piano, trombone, mathematics, languages, classical music and jazz improvisation in his native Sweden before concentrating on composition. He obtained degrees from Oslo (State Academy of Music 1995)
and Paris (Ircam 1999 and Sorbonne 2003). He also studied with Klas Torstensson in the Netherlands. Lindborg was twice awarded a Young Artist Grant (1998 and 1999) from the Norwegian governement.
Lindborg's main research interests lie in CAAC (Computer-Assisted Analysis and Composition), music interactivity and rhetoric as a metaphor for composition. Peer-reviewed articles have been published by Springer Verlag and Ircam.
His compositions for soloists, ensembles and interactive electronics are published by MIC (Norway) and ABRSM (UK). Highlights include “TreeTorika” for saxophone and chamber orchestra performed by Ensemble Ernst at Ultima
Festival 2006, Oslo; "khreia" for orchestra, First Prize winner at Stavanger Symphony Orchestra Nordic Composers' Competition 2002; “Extra Quality#2” for dancers and electronics, commissioned for the Agora Festival at Centre Pompidou 2002, Paris; “Leçons” for saxophone and computer, composed at IRCAM 1999, Paris; "Nermal
SonoSofisms", Audience Price winner at Forum 1996, Montreal. Lindborg’s music has been released on ECM, on Daphne and, with sound artist group freq_out, on Ash International.
Projects for 2008 include research in analysis and musicalisation of rhetorical speech within a project called Particular Assembly. Lindborg will also be pursuing a series of seminars and workshops at the Ho Chi Minh City Conservatory as part of the Transposition cultural exchange program between Norway and Vietnam.
More information at www.pmpm.tk
Maia Urstad (NO) sound artist
lives in Bergen
Maia Urstad is a sound artist working at the intersection of audio and visual art. She has for the last 15 years worked with sound in various multi-discipline art projects, installations, site specific concerts films etc. in Norway and abroad. She studied fine art, but has also a background in rock music. Her latest works have primarily been outdoor and indoor sound installations and performances, making use of CD and cassette-radios as both sound and visual objects. She is currently working with sound-textures, based on found/concrete sound sources, emphasizing on signals from radio broadcasting. Maia Urstad also runs Maur Prosjekter, a production company that initiates and produces sound-related collaborative projects.
Selected works:
SOUND BARRIER; sound installation. Bergen at the Borealis festival, Oslo at
the Ultima festival and Malmö Konsthall during the 3rd Electrohype Biennial. 200405
23:00 GMT; sound installation at The Idea Of North #2 at Galleri F15, Moss, 2005
"MOTLYD" (Silent Sound), with Jana Winderen and Jørgen Træen. A 10-day event with talks, sound installations and site-specific concerts. 2001
"CLEOPATRAS NEEDLES", outdoor concert performance including 100 cassette radios, the Belgian saxophone quartet Bl!ndman Quartet, and 60 performers. 2000.
Upcoming:
SOUND BARRIER at The idea of North #3 in Halifax and at the Elektrafestival in Montreal, Canada, 2006.
www.maia.no
Jacob Kirkegaard (DK) sound artist
Jacob Kirkegaard: Born in Denmark in 1975. Lives in Germany
Investigates sonic membranes and discrete interference occurring in different environments. Graduated from the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne Germany, Kirkegaard has lectured on archaeological and spatial aspects of sound at the Academy of Architecture in Copenhagen. His works include live performances, film music, installations and compositions - 'Soaked', a collaboration with Philip Jeck (Touch, 2002), '01.02' (Bottrop-boy) and 'Eldfjall' (Touch, 2005). In his latest work for Touch, '4 Rooms' (2006), Kirkegaard explores the sonic legacy of Chernobyl. Jacob Kirkegaard has been presented at The Museum of Contemporary Art in Denmark, KIASMA art museum in Finland, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Gallery Rachel Haferkamp and at the Transmediale in Germany. He is also a member of freq_out.
For more info please visit Jacobs website: www.fonik.dk
Mike Harding (UK)
Born 1957 Lives in England
Curator & Producer; Lecturer & Publisher; Author & Editor; Moderator; occasional exhibitions/installations/performances
Mike Harding is a curator & producer, lecturer and music publisher. He has been running Touch [UK-based audio-visual publishing house]with Jon Wozencroft since 1982 and started the sister label, Ash International, in 1993 with Robin Rimbaud. He is the UK Ambassador of Elgaland-Vargaland, a member of freq_out and THE FREQ_OUT ORCHESTRA and a member of Field with Lasse Marhaug & Jana Winderen. He started the project 'Spire' in 2004, which links and develops organ and electronic music, including Fennesz, Philip Jeck, Charles Matthews and others. He has overall responsibilities for running Touch, dealing with artists, websites and general management. Mike also oversees Touch Music, the publishing part of Touch which deals in the marketing and exploitation of the Touch Music catalogue, which includes works by Christian Fennesz, Chris Watson, Philip Jeck, BJNilsen, Oren Ambarchi, Stephen O'Malley and many others
Kent Tankred (S) sound artist
Born 1947 in Sweden
Studied painting in the early 70s before studying at EMS (Institute for Electro-Acoustic Music in Sweden) with Rolf Enström and Jan W. Morthenson. The multislide presentation Riot shown in Berlin in 1988 was created in collaboration with the graphic artist Leif Elggren. Tankred and Elggren work together on a regular basis as a performance duo, calling themselves The Sons of God. Tankred aims to strengthen the ties between music, movement and image and to avoid conventional forms of expression. He often uses a Concresizer, an instrument he has constructed himself, which controls different types of sound sculptures from a keyboard. Film/video work includes PAPA by Guds söner, 2002; The Sons of God perform a miracle by L. Elggren and K. Tankred, 2000. Exhibitions such as Pandoras Box, Konsthögskolan , Stockholm (installation, 2000); EAM compositions such as Razim II (By pass) on Testament, RRRecords, USA.
Franz Pomassl (AT) sound artist
Lives in Austria
Operates in a kind of permanent laboratory situation, and as a consequence finds himself involved in a continuous process of probing, exploring and optimizing musical and extramusical territories; is also engaged in the permanent deconstruction and expansion of familiar ways of hearing. He moves along the boundaries of the human aural perception system and in fact oversteps the given aural parameters of the technical equipment. He explores where the barriers of acoustic reception may lie by uncompromisingly negating them. In the course of extensive research work he has developed electro-acoustic machines and processes with which architecture and the physical perception of space can be transformed. The effects he achieves with his work often involve the use of infrasonic frequencies. Installations (selection): International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Gothenburg; Avanto, Muu Galleria, Helsinki. Discography (Selection): 2001, Laton, 2001; Retrial Error, Laton, 2001; Antonin Artaud, Laton 2002.
For more info go to www.laton.at
Carl Michael von Hausswolff (S) Sound Artist, Curator for freq_out
[You can find a biography and article in french here] and a full biography here
Carl Michael von Hausswolff was born in 1956 in Linköping, Sweden. He lives and works in Stockholm. Since the end of the 70s, Hausswolf has worked as a composer using the tape recorder as his main instrument. His compositions from 1979 to 1992 are constructed almost exclusively from basic material taken from earlier audiovisual installations and performance works, which consists essentially of complex macromal drones with a surface of aesthetic elegance and beauty. In later works, Hausswolff has retained the aesthetic elegance and the drone and added a purely isolationistic sonoric condition to composing. Between 1996 and 1998 Hausswolff has boiled away even more ornamental meat from the bone: his works are pure, intuitive studies of electricity, frequency functions and tonal autism within the framework of a conceptual stringent cryption. Hausswolffs music has been performed throughout Europe and in North America. He has often collaborated with other artists (such as Erik Pauser, Leif Elggren, Andrew McKenzie, Johan Soderberg, Zbigniew Karkowski, Graham Lewis, David Jackman, Jean-Louis Huhta and Kim Cascone). Hausswolffs audiovisual works have also found outlets in pictorial art. His installations have been shown at biennials in Istanbul and Johannesburg, for instance, and also at Manifesta 1 in Rotterdam, Documenta X in Kassel and Musee dArt Moderne de la Ville de Paris. This year, his work was included in Sonic Boom at the Hayward Gallery, in Sound Art - Sound As Media at the ICC, Tokyo.
Hans Sydow (freq_out 1 only)
(b. 1968)
Komponisten Hans Sydow tager ofte udgangspunkt i feltet mellem lyden, lyrikken og musikken, og arbejder med sprog og reallyd som musikalsk materiale. Han gør en dyd ud af at blande traditionerne - pop og avantgarde, det iørefaldende og det støjende.
»Jeg har stået bag udgivelsen af cderne Glimtvis, Brødrene Gedicht og Mellem Stationerne. Jeg har skrevet musik på bestilling til Biskoppen i Roskilde, Danske Arkitekters Lands-forbund og Dansk Institut for Elektroakustisk Musik. Min musik har været nomineret til Danish Music Awards, Nat & Dags Københavnerpris og vundet konkurrencer i Statens Kunstfond. Jeg har udviklet lydkunstprojekterne lydlaboratoriet og krydsfelt, og internetprojektet webdrama. Og så har jeg undervist i lyddesign på Designskolen Kolding, Forfatterskolen i København, Århus Universitet og Kunsthøjskolen i Holbæk. Jeg har kort sagt et bredt og veletableret netværk i det danske kulturliv.«