Photo: Krista Caballero
Frank Ekeberg is a transdisciplinary artist, music composer and researcher working in the intersection of the natural and the constructed. His work explores issues of ecology, time, spatiality and transformation, with a particular focus on nature spaces and the interplay between human and extrahuman worlds. 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 uses almost exclusively field recordings as source material, and site-specificity and integration of spatial elements in the compositional structure are at the core of most of his work. Ekeberg received an undergraduate degree in musicology 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 at City University London, UK, supervised by Denis Smalley. Frank Ekeberg spends most of his time living and working in Trondheim, Norway.
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Video Production: MONA / Berlin Art Link / Nordische Botschaften
Sound and images: Frank Ekeberg
Thanks to Berlin Art Link and Nordische Botschaften for doing this interview for the exhibition The White, the Green, and the Dark - Contemporary Positions from Norway, June 2 - October 3, 2020.
“Drawing on natural ecosystems for inspiration and material, Frank Ekeberg’s audio compositions have a cyclical quality akin to the habitats they capture. Field recordings play a crucial role in Ekeberg’s practice and, for him, an environment’s sound quality reflects its overall health. Ekeberg’s sound piece ‘No Man’s Land’ is part of the current exhibition ‘The White, the Green, and the Dark: Contemporary Positions from Norway’ presented by the Norwegian Embassy in Berlin. Tracing the extinction of natural pollinators from the rainforest of Norway, ‘No Man’s Land’ is a critical reflection on the rapid and devastating effects of climate change in the region. We spoke to Ekeberg about this work, as well as his evolving practice and the process behind his audio compositions.”