Alexander Rishaug

research interests: field recording, acoustic ecology, sound art, listening, deep listening, improvisation, experimental music
affiliation: Academy of Arts, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
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Alexander Rishaug is a Norwegian sound artist and composer working within the expanding field of experimental music, field recording and sound art. He's affiliated with Kunstakademiet, UiT The Arctic University of Norway.

 

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  • Sound of Time - Tuning into the Norwegian Landscape and the Post-Industrial Soundscape (2022) author(s): Alexander Rishaug published in: Research Catalogue
    This exposition is a non-linear, web based, poetic, personal, diary-like, essayistic, semi-fictional, experimental and reality-based approach to immerse into the reflection-mode and mind boggling universe of the project Sound of time - Tuning into the Norwegian Landscape and the Post-Industrial Soundscape, that took place in the time frame 2018 - 2022 at Academy of Arts, UiT Arctic University of Norway. Through his field work Rishaug's been tuning in (and out), listening, recording and investigating a wide range of sites and places, their presence, their history, stories, acoustic qualities and psychoacoustic state. This resulted in site specific installations, various collaborations, a solo exhibition, an artist book and a field recording album. With a growing toolkit of listening strategies, methods, techniques and technology Rishaug's been able to pick up, and record a variety of audible qualities of the Norwegian landscape such as vibration, resonance and electromagnetic waves. This not only highlights the physical presence of current sounds, but points towards the contemporary state of global economy and geo-politics and how this transforms the landscape.
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