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Alexander Rishaug is a sound artist, researcher and composer working in the field in between the art, natural science and the experimental music field.
Rishaug creates site-specific sound projects that investigates
time, memory, space/place and acoustics through the use of extended field recording techniques and advanced speaker technology, analogue synthesizers, computers and generative sound manipulations.
This has led to numerous performances, art projects and collaborations within the field of sound art, contemporary music, visual art, film, dance and theatre.
Among the musical references we find minimalist old-timers such as Steve Reich and Terry Riley, whose repetitive patterns and drones respectively, form the basis of much of Rishaug’s album Possible Landscape. These song structures are combined with a sonic palette that is equally informed by post-90s electronic music and glitch as by composers such as Pierre Henry and Bernhard Parmigiani.
In particular there are many traces of the same kind of emotional use of electro-acoustic sounds that is found in Parmigiani’s music. Although the glitch-sound will continue to be associated with Oval and the Mille Plateaux-label there is little in Rishaug’s music that resembles this kind of coldly theoretical and clinically depersonalized sound. Rather, there is in Rishaug’s music always a deeply human warmth that more resembles the personal investment of a singer-songwriter than a laptop-musician. The patient listener will pick up on these qualities and as a result the experience of Rishaug’s music is rich with potential listening pleasure.
Rishaug was a part of the improv collective ARM together with Arne Borgan and Are Mokkelbost. Live they collaborated with artists such as: Håkon Kornstad, Martin Horntvedt, Ingar Zach, Pål Asle Petersen, John Hegre, Jørgen Træen, Toshimaru Nakamura and Salvatore.
As a solo artist he has collaborated and performed with: Espen Sommer Eide, Haco (JPN), Lasse Marhaug, KA, Andreas Meland, Ivar Grydeland, Daniel Meyer Grønnvold, Ole Henrik Moe, Del, Kari Rønnekleiv, Thomas Ankersmit (NL), Kobi, Elin Vister (Dj Sunshine), Johannes Bergmark (SE), Erik Skodvin (Svarte Greiner) and Tape (SE).
Visual artists such as Ilan Katin, Marius Watz, Erich Berger, artist group Squidsoup, Pekka Stokke, HC GIlje and Andreas Paleologos.
He also has remixed metal innovators such as Ulver and She Said Destroy, long time noise geeks Jazkamer and Bjørn Hatterud and Conrad Schnitzler's collaboration project Hirchgebrüll.
Rishaug has released music on: Freakout Cult, Crónica, Tapeworm, Eilean Rec, Asphodel, Smalltown Supersound, Melektronikk, Lucky Kitchen, Jester records, Rune Grammofon, Enlightenment and Dekorder.
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Rishaug creates site-specific sound projects that investigates
time, memory, space/place and acoustics through the use of extended field recording techniques and advanced speaker technology, analogue synthesizers, computers and generative sound manipulations.
This has led to numerous performances, art projects and collaborations within the field of sound art, contemporary music, visual art, film, dance and theatre.
Among the musical references we find minimalist old-timers such as Steve Reich and Terry Riley, whose repetitive patterns and drones respectively, form the basis of much of Rishaug’s album Possible Landscape. These song structures are combined with a sonic palette that is equally informed by post-90s electronic music and glitch as by composers such as Pierre Henry and Bernhard Parmigiani.
In particular there are many traces of the same kind of emotional use of electro-acoustic sounds that is found in Parmigiani’s music. Although the glitch-sound will continue to be associated with Oval and the Mille Plateaux-label there is little in Rishaug’s music that resembles this kind of coldly theoretical and clinically depersonalized sound. Rather, there is in Rishaug’s music always a deeply human warmth that more resembles the personal investment of a singer-songwriter than a laptop-musician. The patient listener will pick up on these qualities and as a result the experience of Rishaug’s music is rich with potential listening pleasure.
Rishaug was a part of the improv collective ARM together with Arne Borgan and Are Mokkelbost. Live they collaborated with artists such as: Håkon Kornstad, Martin Horntvedt, Ingar Zach, Pål Asle Petersen, John Hegre, Jørgen Træen, Toshimaru Nakamura and Salvatore.
As a solo artist he has collaborated and performed with: Espen Sommer Eide, Haco (JPN), Lasse Marhaug, KA, Andreas Meland, Ivar Grydeland, Daniel Meyer Grønnvold, Ole Henrik Moe, Del, Kari Rønnekleiv, Thomas Ankersmit (NL), Kobi, Elin Vister (Dj Sunshine), Johannes Bergmark (SE), Erik Skodvin (Svarte Greiner) and Tape (SE).
Visual artists such as Ilan Katin, Marius Watz, Erich Berger, artist group Squidsoup, Pekka Stokke, HC GIlje and Andreas Paleologos.
He also has remixed metal innovators such as Ulver and She Said Destroy, long time noise geeks Jazkamer and Bjørn Hatterud and Conrad Schnitzler's collaboration project Hirchgebrüll.
Rishaug has released music on: Freakout Cult, Crónica, Tapeworm, Eilean Rec, Asphodel, Smalltown Supersound, Melektronikk, Lucky Kitchen, Jester records, Rune Grammofon, Enlightenment and Dekorder.
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