Amund Sjølie Sveen (NO)
Amund Sjølie Sveen was born in 1973 in Vadsø in the far north of Norway
and is based in Oslo. He is an artist and percussionist and has a master’s in
solo percussion from Göteborg College of Music, Sweden. Amund Sjølie Sveen
works with a wide range of expressions whose common ground is sound;
contemporary solo and chamber music, folk music, free improvisation,
performance and sound-art installations. He is a member of the ensembles NING
and Slagr. In recent years he has worked with a series of performance lectures
including live music, e.g. “USB - United States of Barents” – discussing
identity and IKEA in the northern corner of Europe, or “Sound of Freedom” –
investigating the connections between sound, music, weapons and warfare, which
has been performed all over Europe. With his performance lecture “The Norwegian
Way” looking at art, oil and happiness in the richest country on earth, he was
also guest at the “Truth is concrete” 24/7 marathon camp at steirischer herbst
2012. Recent projects are “Horisont”, a permanent sound installation for the
Sami College in Kautokeino / Norway; “Tour de Arctic”, an outdoor interactive
sound installation using bicycles as sound interfaces; “Song by Geirr Tveitt”
and a new studio recording with the contemporary folk music band Slagr, and the
performance lecture “Sound of Freedom”. www.amundsveen.no