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Craig is a sound artist, composer, educator, and creative writer who works at the intersection of technological innovation and philosophical inquiry. His practice explores the relationship between human perception and sonic materiality through synthesis, sound diffusion, interface development, instrument design, electroacoustic composition, and field recording.


His research focuses on the intersection of materialism and agency, with particular attention to listening practices and sonic encounters. Wells examines how sound influences our understanding of reality and how sonic experiences can be translated into other forms of knowledge. Through practice-led research, he investigates the epistemological implications of sonic experience, studying how the physical and experiential aspects of sound contribute to knowledge production.


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 "Bubbles"

Klunks "Ancients"

Vonrik Haug "Vacillation"

Klunks "Bubbles"

Vonrik Haug "Vacillation"

Vonrik Haug "Vacillation"

Vonrik Haug "Vacillation"

Vonrik Haug "Scenes"

Vonrik Haug "Vacillation"

Vonrik Haug "Vacillation"

Vonrik Haug "Planets"

"Pins and Spheres"

Vonrik Haug "Border Town"

Vonrik Haug "Border Town"

Visual Documentation

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Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests


  • Live electronics and Improvisation
  • Biophilic & Regenerative Design/ Living System Thinking
  •  Innovation Theory and Place Based Sollutions
  • Composition; electroacoustic and acousmatic techniques
  • Phonography; soundscape studies and field recording
  •  New Materialism/Phenomenology/Process Philosophy 
  • Sound Diffusion & Ambisonics
  • Sonic fiction & Psychogeography


Higher Education


2024-2025

HE  Fellowship

Teaching and Learning Design for Arts Education

Glasgow School of Art 

Awarded

(Funded)


2022-2023

Masters of PM and Innovation

Strathclyde University

Awarded Distinction

(Scholarship Funded)


2017- 2022

Ph.D  Creative Practice

Grieg Academy

Creative Practice and Innovation

Awarded

(NARP Funded)


09/2010 - 09/2014  

Ph.D Philosophy

University of Newcastle Upon Tyne

Awarded

(AHRC funded)


09/2008 – 09/2009

Masters- 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


Projects


07/2025   Album Release ( CONTINGENT FACES) collaboration with (jSNN) & (Phobie)

06/2024  SICKHOES  6 (Imitate- Manipulate-Simulate) Netherlands W/  Natalie Maximova ( computer generated reality of souless structures) - sound design

08/2023  The extinction of Inefficiency- Research paper on the ethics of objects (UK) 

04/2023  18 Speaker - Multi Channel Installation- (echo spacez)- Latvia 

04/2023  Field Recording (Berlin) Collaboration with  Arnt Siwertsen 

03/2023  Album Release Vonrik Haug (Digest) 444T records 

02/2023  Barcelona (surface ends) Field Recording and Collaboration - Tan Jacobs

01/2023  Tunisia (Ruins) Field recording and Performance (Blacheot rooms)

08/2022 Album release - Vonrik Haug - "Border Town and Time Scales"

07/2022  EMS Stockholm Residency 

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

06/2022  Balkan Field Trip (recording "ELDON" )

05/2022 ORK festival - modular set with multi-channel -Malta

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


memberships


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


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