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Introduction

Craig Wells is a sound artist and composer based in Bergen Norway. His practice focuses on synthesis, sound diffusion, electroacoustic composition and field recording. His research interests oscillate around materialism and phenomenology with particular emphasis placed upon listening and sonic encounter. He works under various monikers such as Refrains, Klunks, John Feathergail and Vonrik Haug and has released multiple albums internationally. Central to his practice is using sound as a means to inflect philosophical epistemologies; what forms of thought does sound provoke and agitate? In what ways can we reconcile the written word with sonic experience? He is investigating ambisonics and sound diffusion techniques to extend compositional material beyond the stereo image. What becomes pertinent through these explorations is the malleability of elevation and azimuth; these spatial transformations act as a syntax for sculpting, extending and concluding sonic material. 


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Curriculum vitae

Research Interests  


  • Live electronics and improvisation
  • Composition; electroacoustic and acousmatic techniques
  • Phonography; soundscape studies and field recording
  • Materialism/Phenomenology/Process Philosophy 
  • Sound Diffusion & Ambisonics


Ongoing Curatorial Positions


Blue Rinse 

Experimental Sound Event

2018- present

Bergen

Co-curated w/ Tijs Ham & Julie Lillian Porter


Higher Education


2017- 2020

KMD Research Associate 

Grieg Academy

Spatial composition

(Funded)


09/2010 - 09/2014  

Ph.D Philosophy

sonic materialism

(AHRC funded)

University of Newcastle Upon Tyne


09/2008 – 09/2009

Masters in  Composition

Awarded: (Distinction)

University of Newcastle Upon Tyne


09/2006 – 09/2008

Bachelor- Composition

Awarded: 2:1

University of Newcastle Upon Tyne


09/2005 – 09/2006

HND Music-Composition

Awarded- A grade

University of West Scotland


09/2004 – 09/2005

HNC Music-Composition

Awarded- A grade

University of West Scotland


09/2003 – 09/2004

NC Music-Composition

Awarded- A grade

University of West Scotland


Up and Coming / Recent


10/2021  Dekal Trio-Album (Jørgen Træen and Kjetl Møster)

09/2021  Lux Passerine- Album Release 

08/2021  Bergen Acousmonium (Lydgalleriet) performance and installation 

07/2021  Trond Lossius, Jeremy Welsh- Immersive  Installation at Kabusso 

06/2021  EMS Stockholm Residency 

03/2021  Arnt Siwertsen / Vonrik Haug double LP in quadraphonic (sky etudes)

02/2021  Sound Residency  -1 month Latvia (Pedvale)

01/2020  Lux Passerine performance Gylenpris kunsthall 

01/2020  Publication chapter  (In a Quiet Forest, I Feel Disquiet)


Projects


11/2020  Lydgalleriet (Numenous Begginings)  (Arnt Siwertsen / Vonrik Haug)

11/2020  Vonrik Haug - Piksel Festival  with (Dime ensemble Nante)

11/2020  Sound design for "Are You ready" project with Frans Jacobi and Gitte Sætre

11/2020  Gylenpris kunsthall  1:1  (Lux Passerine Performance/sound installation)

10/2020  (Wilderness-studio 2005-2019)- Release compilation with Francisco Lopez

10/2020  "working with children" sound design for Nicola Gunn- Oktoberdance- Bergen

09/2020  BEK work residency (1 month)

07/2020  Sacral Spaces,  w/ Marc D'arcy at Mikey Laundry Art  Garden, Bergen

07/2020  Vonrik Haug - Album Release (Planets)

07/2020  Klunks- Album Release (Ancient)

07/2020  Slette Festival (modular duo with Marc D'arcy)

06/2020  BEK summer festival (Lux Passerine performance)

03/2020  Meta Morf Festival Trondheim (Live performance)

03/2020  Sonic art unit,  NTNU &  KMD -Surnidal residency 

03/2020  SAR audio paper/performance (KMD Bergen)

03/2020  Vonrik Haug- Album Release (Scenes) 

03/2020  Vonrik Haug- Album Release (Vacillation)

02/2020  Resonant places - field recording (South Korea & Japan)
01/2020  FRST festival -Visby 3D Audiorama (Diffusion Concert- Sweden)

11/2019   Field Recording South Africa (Francisco Lopez & Christina Kubisch)

09/2019  Østre live set with Medikal

07/2019  BEK residency - with Carsten Aniksdal

06/2019  Piksel Festival (noise to signal) modular performance 

05/2019  Electro Audio Unit (Anders Vinjar & Trond Lossius) Østre 24 speaker

04/2019  Klunks Bubbles. (Album Release)

04/2019  Galleri Kit Trondheim, Sounds and Spaces, Performance and Installation

02/2019  Ulang Droog, Ostre- 6 hour performance- (Thomas Espedal spoken word)

02/2019  Clocks (Report on the thing) album release (major streaming platforms)

12/2018  IAC Malmo. Audio Paper

11/2018  Installation “Joy Forum” Bergen (Professor Jeremy Welsh)

11/2018  Proveromet - Sound Diffusion Ambix (Eirik Havnes)

11/2018  Stockholm KHM  Multi Rig 5 days

09/2018  Notam Workshop (Joseph Anderson) Ambisonics

06/2018  IAC Malmo residency, (Multi-channel concert with Giuseppe Pisano)

04/2018  Expand Residency Surnidal

03/2018  IEM- Ambisonics Graz (MUMUTH)

03/2018  Borealis Festival (Live Modular Synthesis with Joachim Koester) Landmark

02/2018  Prøveromet (Sonic Fiction/Theatre)

10/2017  Meteor Festival / Live Electronics

04/2017  Playdate/Landmark- Electronic Music solo

05/2017  Sonified Gesture/Clocks (Funded by Bergen Kommune)

04/2017  Cave Acoustics, Bulgaria Sofia –Field trip

03/2017  Borealis Performance, Multi Speaker (Østre)

03/2017  Prøvermomet- Solo Electronic Performance

10/2016  Bergen Assembly Performance with Trond Lossius

09/2016  Album Release- Klunks... Hollow Scenes.  Hush Hush Records 

08/2016  Field Eecording in Sardinia, Italy, “Submerged Lobes Project”, release date 2017

08/2016  Artist Residency at ARC Switzerland – 2 weeks, Site Specific Composition

06/2016  Broken Symbols- Analogue Improvisation Duo- Hans Knut Sveen

05/2016  Artists Residency Baer Arts Centre Iceland

04/2016  SAR Conference Paper- on artistic research, guest speaker  (The Hague)

03/2016  Album Collaboration with Mathias Loose (Denmark) “Perfume”-EP released on Hot Gem 

03/2016  Submerged Tones- (Water Play) with Fritjdof Wesseltoft  

02/2016  Athens (Mountain of Black Stone) Bentano 7, Residency and Performance

12/2015  Tis Tis artist residency - Estonia (2 weeks)

11/2015  Collaborative album with Electronic trio (Pøda)

05/2015  Album Release... Klunks- Elastic Forest. Released on Hush Hush Records Seattle 

05/2015  Skok (Bergen) Guest speaker (paper on the body and technology)

06/2014  Funding for The Politics and Poetics of Trauma (see above)

                Funded by NICAP 

08/2014  Cut Lip. Berlin Collaboration with Peter Tickell- Electronics and Violin. 

06/2014  Online releases on both Felt Beak and WFMA under the moniker....Basik Profile

07/2014  Residency- “Sound Foam”- Sheffield UK- Axess Spaces

09/2013  Talk: The Schizophonic, Baltic- Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.

08/2013  Interdisciplinary Collaboration with poet Professor Sean O’Brien.

06/2012  The Late Shows- Botanic Gardens, sound work (Decay Machines) 

08/2011 Tuned Infinity, Belgium-Brussels- listening through suspensions

06/2010  Micro album with David Stackenas and Ludo Brunel

08/2010  Chauffer dans la Noirceur Festival. France. Live performances. 

09/2010  Music and Machines. University of Newcastle- Two day performance

04/2010  AV Music Festival, (award)  sonification

01/2010 “Playground”, improvisation group, five albums


Documentation of creative works


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8o6jS0LMHU

https://open.spotify.com/artist/0HbpvoqKuH2Gtu1cNEIfAo?si=23hKfQd_T_mS2i0mvRgs4A

https://soundcloud.com/refrains

https://open.spotify.com/artist/2t1kddN33JPMSigJaCAuld?si=wNgvk8XlQ8aRnGMLqRFG0Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4m2Q_90e8o


Reviews 


https://www.kexp.org/read/2016/12/09/song-of-the-day-klunks-vanersom/

https://www.xlr8r.com/features/2015/12/xlr8rs-best-of-2015-new-artists/

http://www.xlr8r.com/news/2015/08/premiere-hear-klunks-elastic-forrest-in-full/


memberships


  • NORSK  KOMPONISTFORENING
  • CAS –   Computer Arts Society
  • ESSA – Member of European Sound Studies Association


 

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