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- 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
04/2022 Vonrik Haug (Time Scales album) Supported by Bergen Kommune
02/2022 Trond Lossius, Jeremy Welsh- Immersive Installation (3 site series)
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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