Håkan Jonsson
Sound explorer and electroacoustic tinkerer in Berlin with a Ph.D. in Computer Science. Trained oboist. Member of the Studio Baustelle artist collective.
I use objects, field recordings, modular synths, software, machine learning, and self-built instruments in performances and installations. I collaborate and perform with Annsofie Jonsson (paintings below) under the name of Hugsten. My love for field recordings comes from their relation to sensors and senses, and their affordance to sharing personal listening experiences.
Instruments
Speitoun
An ultrasonic feedback loop instrument built with the support of John Driscoll of Composers Inside Electronics.
Neural escalator
A virtual instrument trained with machine learning using field recordings of creaking escalators. Here playing with a tuning based on my body measurements.
Installations & works
Samtalet (The conversation), a painting that responds to touch with sounds and non-lingual AI-generated speech, at Hörsägen by Hugsten, Studio Baustelle, Berlin, 2023.
End of Story, tape sculpture, Hörsägen by Hugsten, Studio Baustelle, Berlin, 2023
Archeo-electronics at Hörsägen by Hugsten, Studio Baustelle, Berlin, 2023
Dead Silence at Occulture, Berlin, 2022
Dead Silence - Negotiating noise with the non-living, Errant Sound, Berlin, 2022
Grey mass, 2022, field recording composition, Cities & Memories
Spectrum garden 2023, field recording composition, Polar Sounds with HIFMB and AWI
Performances
Gastkram (Ghost Hug)
Live performance, January 2023, at the Wavefront event at Berlin School of Sound. I used the same tombstone as in "Dead silence", combining modular synthesis with live sampling through contact microphones to jam with the dead. I also played the Speitoun (see above) and field recordings .
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, Untergrün, Berlin, 2023
Sound poetry action with Asta D, Hysterical angels, Galleri ZeitZone, Berlin, 2023
Proxemics, Hörsägen by Hugsten, Studio Baustelle, Berlin, 2023
Ashes to ashes, Hörsägen by Hugsten, Studio Baustelle, Berlin, 2023
Reconstruction, El Puente Art Space, Vilaflor, Tenerife, 2023
Slower at Leper Colony Church, Abades, Tenerife, 2023. Photo by Felicia Scheuerecker.
Improvisation with found object, G.A.R.A.G.E Berlin 2022
ETES-VOUS FOU? Kunsthaus Kule, Berlin, 2022
Speaking in tounges, with John Driscoll, ACUD, Berlin, 2022
Exhale[s] at Errant Sound, Artist talk & installation, 2022
Garoe, El Puente Art Space, Vilaflor, Tenerife, 2022
There is something in the Air / Harmony of the Spheres at Studio Baustelle, Berlin, 2021
Harmony of the Spheres at Current - Contemporary Occulture, Studio Baustelle, Berlin, 2021
Education & workshops
Sound Synthesis (7.5 ECTS), Blekinge Institute of Technology, BTH, Sweden, Jan-March 2024
Audio Technology (7.5 ECTS), Mid University, Sweden, June-Aug 2023
Performing with Modular Synths and Circuitry Building, Berlin School of Sound (Module 3 diploma course), Nov 2022-Jan 2023
Practice-based Sound Studies for Installation and Performance, Berlin School of Sound (Module 2 diploma course), June-July 2022
Overtone singing workshop with Luca Atzori, Petersburg Art Space, 8 January 2022
Tuning systems workshop with Khyam Allami, 23-27 November 2022
Ktonal – Sound Learning Machines – AI Audio Workshop I & II for Musicians, 19 November 2022, 23 January 2023
Data sonification workshop with Jamie Perera, 3 September 2022
Unexpected Territories – David Tudor, Speaking in Tounges Workshop with John Driscoll, 4-5 July 2022
AUDIO LEAKAGE: Day-Workshop and Colloquium with Budhaditya Chattopadhyay and Audio Leakage Community, 15 July 2022
Field Recording: History and A Practical Introduction with Paula Schopf, 5 May 2022
From Signal to Social (thesis), Ph.D. Computer Science, Lund University, 2018
Creativity and Intelligence in Brains and Machines: From Individuals to Societies, Interdisciplinary College, Germany 2017
Computer Music (10 ECTS), Göteborg University, 1995
Oboe, Public Music School, Hällefors and Borås, 1979-1987.
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