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Alexander Rishaug is a sound artist and composer working in the field in between the art and the experimental music scene.
Rishaug creates site-specific sound projects that investigate 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.
He has collaborated with artists and performers such as Espen Sommer Eide, Haco (JPN), Asbjørn Blokkum Flø, Lasse Marhaug, Tetsuro Yasunaga, Ole Henrik Moe, Maja Ratkje, Kari Rønnekleiv, Sigbjørn Apeland, Hilde Marie Holsen, Thomas Ankersmit (NL), Ivar Bjørnsson, Elin Mar Vister, Michael Duch, Tape (SE), Pekka Stokke, Marius Watz, HC Gilje, Erik Berger (FIN), Ilan Katin (US), Andreas Paleologos and UK collective Squidsoup.
Rishaug has been releasing albums for international labels such as: Asphodel, Smalltown Supersound, Melektronikk, Lucky Kitchen, Jester Records, Rune Grammofon, Freakout Cult, Enlightenment, Cronica Electronica, Eilean records and Tapeworm.
In 2000 he completed his Fine Arts Education at NTNU, Kunstakademiet in Trondheim, under Professor Jeremy Welsh at the Multimedia Department. Since then he’s been working as a freelance artist, finalizing a broad variety of interdisciplinary art projects. At the moment Rishaug is engaged in a PhD Research Fellowship in artistic research - at UiT the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø.
web:
www.arishaug.com