Steve Roden (USA), Marc Behrens (D), Natasha Barrett (N), Bjarne Kvinnsland (N) and Chris Watson (UK) and Jana Winderen (N), are all artists in "Sleppet", and Jørgen Larsson (N) is the curator for the project. Below, a presentation of them.

Steve Roden is a visual and sound artist from Los Angeles. His work includes painting, drawing, sculpture, film/video, sound installation, and performance.

Roden's working process uses various forms of specific notation (words, musical scores, maps, etc.) and translates them through self invented systems into scores; which then influence the process of painting, drawing, sculpture, and sound composition. These scores, rigid in terms of their parameters and rules, are also full of holes for intuitive decisions and left turns. The inspirational source material then becomes a kind of formal skeleton that the abstract finished works are built upon. In the sound works, singular source materials such as objects, architectural spaces, and field recordings, are abstracted through electronic processes to create new audio spaces, or 'possible landscapes'. The sound works present themselves with an aesthetic roden describes as "lower case'' - sound concerned with subtlety and the quiet activity of listening.

Roden has been exhibiting his visual and sound works since the mid 1980's, and has had numerous solo and group exhibitions internationally, including museums, galleries and arts spaces in USA, Italy, France, Japan, Bulgaria, Slovenia, England, etc.

 

Marc Behrens was born in Darmstadt, Germany, in 1970.

Behrens lives and works in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, since 1991, during 2003 also in Grimacco/UD, Italy. He studied Communication and Product Design and has always been present in more than one artistic area at the time.

After beginning his musical studies in experimental jazz and rock groups in the late 1980s and pursuing a series of music releases, acoustic feedback recordings, and multimedia works throughout the 1990s, today Behrens is perhaps best classed as a ‹sound artist›, working across performance, installation, and recorded media (audio and video). He also creates photographic works and CD sleeve design. Behrens has performed and exhibited extensively across Europe, the Middle East, North America, and East Asia.
 

Natasha Barrett 

Natasha Barrett (UK/Norway) works as a freelance composer and performer of acousmatic and live electroacoustic music. Her compositional output consists of works for instruments and live electronics, sound installations, dance, theatre, and animation projects, but all energy stems from her acousmatic approach to sound and its spatio-musical potential. Barrett’s projects are frequently commissioned from international organisations and her work has received awards in many of the prominent electroacoustic music competitions. In 2006 she received the Nordic Council Music Prize.

 

Since completing studies in England in 1998, which included working with BEAST and Jonty Harrison during a masters degree, and afterwards a doctoral degree supervised by Denis Smalley, Barrett currently lives in Norway and is active as a freelance composer and performer of acousmatic and live electroacoustic music. Her music is available on empreintes DIGITALes, Cultures electroniques/Mnemosyne Musique Media, Centaur, Computer Music Journal Sound Anthology, Prix Noroit, and Aurora labels.

(bio will be presented later)

 

Chris Watson is a sound recordist with a particular and passionate interest in recording the wildlife sounds of animals, habitats and atmospheres from around the world. As a freelance recordist for film, tv & radio, Chris Watson specialises in natural history and documentary location sound together with track assembly and sound design in post production.

"Stepping into The Dark" won an Award of Distinction at the 2000 Prix ARS Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria

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Television

'Life in the Undergrowth' for BBC TV 
‘The Life of Birds’ for BBC TV - BAFTA Award for Best Factual Sound
‘The Life of Mammals’ for BBC TV 
‘Talking with Animals’ for BBC TV
‘Big Cat Diary’ for BBC TV.

Radio

"Night time is the Right time" BBC Radio 4
"A Swallow’s Journey" BBC Radio 4 - Sony Radio Award Nominee 2002
"A Small Slice of Tranquillity" BBC Radio 4 for TX Dec. 2002
"A Robin’s Tale" BBC Radio 4 for TX Dec. 2002 .
 

Jana Winderen (N)

Jana Winderen lives and works in Oslo. She studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths College in London (1990-93) with a background in Mathematics and Chemistry at the University of Oslo. Since 1993 she has worked in Bergen and Oslo as an artist and producer/ curator of independent international art projects; "12 Nights", "Street Level", "Motlyd", "freq_out 2", "Bandrom3". Recently at Atelier Nord, Jana Winderen produced the "Generator.x" conference, "Trolley Singers" and "ABA logic". Winderen has exhibited her work in Canada, China, Denmark, England, Germany, Netherlands, Norway and Sweden.

Sound has taken a predominant place in Jana's work since 1992. In her sound installation work she has primarily been concerned with interactions with the audience and the acoustics of a specific space. In the 1990s she worked predominently in public space. Her most recent works are  "Hard Rain"(2006), an interactive sound installation based on motion tracking, which was exhibited at "The Idea of North" in Canada, and  at the exhibition "Up.2.Date" in The Netherlands, and the group sound installation “freq_out 4” curated by Carl Michael von Hausswolff at the Sonambiente Festival in Berlin (2006).Winderen is currently developing an installation and live performance based on hydrophone recordings, with an album due for release on Ash International [UK] in 2007.

Winderen says about her work: "I like the immateriality of a sound work and the openness it can have for both associative and direct experience and sensory perception. I have been occupied with finding sounds from unseen sources of sound, like blind field recordings. Over the last year I have collected recordings made by hydrophones, from rivers, shores and the ocean, and more recently also from glaciers in Iceland and Norway. I am also experimenting with different types of microphones to collect sounds which are not obviously recognisable, but give room for broader, more imaginative readings. I use these sounds as source material for composition in a live environment or to create installations where the audience can play with distortion and processing of the sounds.”

Jørgen Larsson

Jørgen Larsson (Born April 4, 1972) is a musician, sound artist and curator from Bergen, Norway. He is a MFA from The Art Academy in Trondhjem, Norway since 2004. He has received classical piano training from The Grieg Academy, under Einar Røttingen and Knut Albrigt Andersen. In 2000 he founded Bergen center of Electronic Art and is now establishing Lydgalleriet in Bergen, a gallery dedicated to sound art. He has composed music for concert, dance and cinema, as well as made installations and works for public spaces, the net and the white cube.

 

 

 

Steve Roden  Marc Behrens Natasha Barrett  Bjarne Kvinnsland: installasjon  Chris Watson Jana Winderen  Jørgen Larsson