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Trond Engum

Norway (residence) °1974

Trond Engum is a composer and performer working with new strategies for composing and producing music using digital musictechnology. His main instrument is guitar and electronics. Engum has a bakcground from bands like The 3rd and The Mortal and The Soundbyte and have released several albums, played concerts and festivals since the mid 90`s.
In January 2012, Engum finished his PhD equivalent artistic research project, focused on
new strategies for composing and producing music using digital musictechnology.
Since 2012 he has worked as associate professor of musictechnology at NTNU, Trondheim, Norway.

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Beat The Distance - Musictechnological strategies for composition and production (2015) author(s): Trond Engum published in: Norwegian Artistic Research Programme
The aim of this project has been to investigate new strategies for composing and producing music in my genre using digital sound technology. Through my background as a guitarist in an experimental metal band I have experienced a vast development in music technology during the last 20 years. This development has made a great impact in increasing the efficiency attached to procedures for composing and producing music within my genre without necessarily changing the strategies of how the technology is used. In my field the utilization of digital sound technology to a large degree still follows the same mindset that has been developed through the history of analogue sound technology. It is therefore still a large resource of unrevealed potential in contemporary technology that can be translated and adapted for use within the context of my genre. By applying methods and techniques known from electroacoustic/computer music, and adapt these to my musical expression, I have tried to expand the existing repertoire within my field in search for new aesthetic approaches.
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T-EMP Communication and interplay in an electronically based ensemble (last edited: 2022) author(s): Øyvind Brandtsegg, Andreas Bergsland, Carl Haakon Waadeland, Sigurd Saue, Trond Engum, Bernt Isak Wærstad, Tone Åse connected to: Norwegian University of Science and Technology This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
Communication and interplay in an electronically based ensemble. The basic aim of this project is to focus on challenges related to improvised performance of electroacoustic music. The artistic core of the project is to develop musical interaction in a larger ensemble, where the membership is mainly based on electronic and digital instruments. New modes of interaction are enabled by using audio processing as a musical instrument, where the sound from an acoustic musician is being processed live by another ("processor") musician.
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