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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 artistic monikers such as Refrains, Klunks and Vonrik Haug and has released multiple albums internationally. He presents his research at conferences, institutions and festivals throughout Europe and Asia. He cleaves open the epistemological  consequences of practice led research through exploring the somatic and vibratory production of knowledge. Central to his artistic endeavours is the use of sound as a means to inflect philosophical contemplations in order to understand what forms of thought does sound provoke and agitate. An overarching sentiment of his  artistic research is  reconciling sonic experience with the written word. 


https://www.researchcatalogue.net/profile/?person=225364

Album - Releases

Klunks "Elastic Forest"

Klunks "Elastic Forest"

Klunks "Elastic Forest"

Klunks "Hollow Scenes"

Klunks "Elastic Forest"

Klunks "Elastic Forest"

Klunks "Bubbles"

Klunks "Elastic Forest"

Klunks "Ancients"

Klunks "Ancients"

Vonrik Haug "Vacillation"

Klunks "Ancients"

Vonrik Haug "Vacillation"

Vonrik Haug "Vacillation"

Vonrik Haug "Vacillation"

Vonrik Haug "Scenes"

Vonrik Haug "Vacillation"

Vonrik Haug "Vacillation"

Vonrik Haug "Planets"

Vonrik Haug "Pins and Spheres"

Vonrik Haug "Pins and Spheres"

Vonrik Haug "Pins and Spheres"

Vonrik Haug "Pins and Spheres"

Vonrik Haug "Pins and Spheres"

Visual Documnetation

    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
    • Sonic fiction & Psychogeography


    Curatorial Positions


    Blue Rinse 

    Experimental Sound Event

    2018- 2020

    Bergen

    Co-curated w/ Tijs Ham 


    Higher Education


    2017- 2021

    Associate  Professor 

    Grieg Academy

    Contemporary 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


    07/2022 EMS Stockholm Residency 

    07/2022  Sonic Fiction (etchings of the lobe; book publication)

    06/2022 Vonrik Haug  (Time Scales album) Supported by Bergen Kommune & Avgarde


    Projects


    11/2021  Bergen Acousmonium (Lydgalleriet) (The Wind Cannot Hear Me) installation 

    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)

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

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

    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


     

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