Frank Ekeberg

Frank Ekeberg (NO) is a transdisciplinary artist, music composer and researcher working in the intersection of art, science and technology. His work explores issues of ecology, time, spatiality and transformation, with a particular focus on nature spaces, ecosystems and the interplay between human and non-human worlds. His research-based approach often involves collaborations within as well as beyond the art field. Ekeberg has composed and designed sound for concert performance, dance, film, theater, radio plays and intermedia installations, and his work is widely presented in festivals, exhibitions, concerts and conferences around the world. He was awarded the 2017 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, and is currently Research Associate at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington D.C., USA. Most of the time he lives and works in Trondheim, Norway.
ISEA2022

Frank Ekeberg (Norway) is a transdisciplinary artist, music composer and researcher working in the intersection of art, science and technology. His work explores issues of ecology, time, spatiality and transformations, with a particular focus on ecosystems, biodiversity and species extinction. His research-based approach often involves collaborations within as well as beyond the art field. Ekeberg has composed and designed sound for concert performance, dance, film, theater, radio plays and intermedia installations, and his work is widely presented in festivals, exhibitions, concerts and conferences around the world. Frank Ekeberg received an undergraduate degree in music from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) before he went on to pursue a master’s degree in electronic music at Mills College in Oakland, California, where he studied composition with Pauline Oliveros and Alvin Curran, and a PhD in electroacoustic music composition at City University London, UK, with Denis Smalley and Simon Emmerson.

ISEA2015

Frank Ekeberg is an artist and researcher primarily concerned with the sonic arts. His work explores issues of ecology, time, space and memory. Ekeberg has produced art for concert performance, dance, film, theater, radio plays and multimedia installations, and has presented all over the world. He received a master’s degree in electronic music from Mills College in Oakland, California, USA, where he studied with Pauline Oliveros and Alvin Curran, and a PhD in electroacoustic composition from City University in London, UK, under Denis Smalley’s and Simon Emmerson’s tutelage. Frank Ekeberg alternates his time between Trondheim, Norway, and Arizona, USA.

ISEA2014

Frank Ekeberg, NO, is an artist and researcher primarily concerned with the sonic arts. His work explores issues of ecology, time, space and memory. Using almost exclusively natural sound as source material, spatial aspects of the sounds and the listening environment are integrated as essential elements of the work. A composer by training, Ekeberg developed spatio‑structural theory, a framework for identifying, analyzing and composing sonic space in acousmatic music.

ISEA2013

Frank Ekeberg, Trondheim, Norway