Jørgen Larsson
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Jørgen Larsson is a musician, sound artist and curator from Bergen, Norway.
He is an MFA from The Art Academy in Trondhjem, Norway since 2004. He has received classical piano training from The Grieg Academy, under Einar Røttingen and Knut Albrigt Andersen.
In 2000 he founded Bergen Center for Electronic Art (BEK) together with Gisle Frøysland.
He has composed music for concert, dance and cinema, as well as made installations and more conceptual work for public spaces, the net and the white cube.
His work has been shown and performed in numerous galleries, festivals and venues around the world.
Jørgen Larsson co-founded and is the director of Lydgalleriet, a gallery space in Bergen dedicated to sound art
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He is an MFA from The Art Academy in Trondhjem, Norway since 2004. He has received classical piano training from The Grieg Academy, under Einar Røttingen and Knut Albrigt Andersen.
In 2000 he founded Bergen Center for Electronic Art (BEK) together with Gisle Frøysland.
He has composed music for concert, dance and cinema, as well as made installations and more conceptual work for public spaces, the net and the white cube.
His work has been shown and performed in numerous galleries, festivals and venues around the world.
Jørgen Larsson co-founded and is the director of Lydgalleriet, a gallery space in Bergen dedicated to sound art
Sound art
Sound art is a diverse group of art practices that considers wide notions of sound, listening and hearing as its predominant focus. There are often distinct relationships forged between the visual and aural domains of art and perception by sound artists....
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Main Work
- Der Brief: VOLUM (1999) - CD with the trio Nils Are Drønen, John Hegre and Jørgen Larsson
- ELEKTRA (2000) - National Monument for Water Power in Tyssedal, Norway - Interactive sculpture in collaboration w/ Finn Eirik Modahl
- Disco Etudes (2001) - 12 pieces for piano and computer, premiered in Hong Kong
- The Sound of the Stigma (DLA) (2002) - 32 speaker installation for the Leprosy Museum in Bergen
- Femte Veggen (The Fifth Wall) (2003) - large scale social/political graffiti work
- NORSKE LEDD (Norwegian Joints) (2004) - sound portraits of Norwegian celebrities based on sounds from their joints and tendons
- Crashing Happy (2006) - CD with remixes of the sound from a computer crash
- SLEPPET (2007) - Larsson curated a large exhibition for the 100th year commemoration of Edvard Grieg's death
- Screaming Room (2009) - installation with breaking glasses
- Planes (2009) - Hanging and moving speaker sculpture
- Romklang (2010) - Sound installation for a restaurant
- TelArt (2006-2010) - Modified public phones and phone installation in collaboration with Bjørnar Habbestad