Research Interests  

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

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

(NARP Funded)

09/2010 - 09/2014  

Ph.D Philosophy

sonic materialism

University of Newcastle Upon Tyne

(AHRC funded)

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

05/2022  EMS Stockholm Residency 

11/2021  Bergen Acousmonium (Lydgalleriet) performance and installation 

11/2021  Trond Lossius, Jeremy Welsh- Immersive  Installation at Kabusso 

10/2021 VR sound design installation with Natalie Maximova 

                      @ Espace Arlaud, Lausanne, Switzerland

09/2021  Vonrik Haug  "Pins and Spheres "  Double Vinyl Release 

09/2021  Lux Passerine- Album Release (NRF)

09/2021  Surnidal Billag (Sound art Residency with Jeremy Welsh)

08/2021. (Emergent Ears Book publication  on KMD press)

07/2021  Etchings of Coastal sites (collaborative installation @ wrap gallery)

07/2021  VR sound design installation @ Ecal/ecole cantonale d'art de Laussanne 

with Natalie Maximova (title - There is no  Spoon)

Projects

03/2021.  Glydenpris Kunsthall, Quartet performance /Stephan Meidell & Co

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 Gyldenpris kunsthall 

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

11/2020  Lydgalleriet (Numinous Beginnings)  (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  Gyldenpris 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 suspension

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 (ICMUS)

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

https://www.arc-artistresidency.ch/en/guests/guests-detail/craig-wells

memberships

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