Chalmers University of Technology is a private research university located in Gothenburg, Sweden. Chalmers focuses on engineering and science, but more broadly it also conducts research and offers education in shipping, architecture and management. The university has approximately 3100 employees and 10,000 students.
Bigbang is a Norwegian rock band. Formed in 1992, the band is led by frontman and chief songwriter Øystein Greni. Over the years, the band's lineup has changed several times while remaining a trio and with Greni as the only constant member.
Sound art is an artistic activity in which sound is utilized as a primary time-based medium or material. Like many genres of contemporary art, sound art may be interdisciplinary in nature, or be used in hybrid forms. According to Brandon LaBelle, sound art as a practice "harnesses, describes, analyzes, performs, and interrogates the condition of sound and the process by which it operates."
New Interfaces for Musical Expression, also known as NIME, is an international conference dedicated to scientific research on the development of new technologies and their role in musical expression and artistic performance.
Christine Guldbrandsen is a singer who is best known internationally for being the Norwegian entrant in the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest. She has released three albums in Scandinavia: Surfing in the Air, Moments, and Christine. A new album, Colors, was released on 8 April 2011. She sings mainly in Norwegian, Danish and English.
William Nygaard is a Norwegian retired businessman and publisher, who was the CEO of publishing company Aschehoug and the chairman of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation.
Alexander Igorevich Rybak or Alyaksandr Iharavich Rybak is a Belarusian-born Norwegian musician and actor. Based in Oslo, Norway, Rybak extensively worked on television programs and on tours in Europe, particularly in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe throughout the early 2010s. Performing in English, Russian and Norwegian, Rybak has released five albums.
The Hyperbow is an electronic violin bow interface that was developed as a result of an in-depth research project by students at MIT. The instrument is intended for use only by accomplished players and was designed to amplify their gestures, which lead to supplementary sound or musical control possibilities. It offers the violin player a range of expressive possibilities in its form as an augmented bow controller that lends itself to the control of bowed string physical models.
Geir Lennart Høgsnes was a Norwegian sociologist. He did research on labor and wages, and spent the better part of his academic career at the Norwegian Institute for Social Research and the University of Oslo. He worked as a professor until his murder in 2009.
Live electronic music is a form of music that can include traditional electronic sound-generating devices, modified electric musical instruments, hacked sound generating technologies, and computers. Initially the practice developed in reaction to sound-based composition for fixed media such as musique concrète, electronic music and early computer music. Musical improvisation often plays a large role in the performance of this music. The timbres of various sounds may be transformed extensively using devices such as amplifiers, filters, ring modulators and other forms of circuitry. Real-time generation and manipulation of audio using live coding is now commonplace.
Henrik Grue Bastiansen is a Norwegian historian who specializes in media studies.
Superfamily was a Norwegian pop rock band from Moss, Norway. The band is composed of Steven Ray Wilson, Kim Granholt, Martin Steffensen (guitar), and Richard Lorentz (drums). Anders Nielsen, Terje Krumins and Håkon Moe provide backing vocals as "choirboys".
Melodi Grand Prix, the Norwegian selection for the Eurovision Song Contest, began in 1960, the year of Norway's debut in the contest. It has been held almost every year since.
Jannike Kruse is a Norwegian singer, artist and actor. Daughter of Professor and composer Bjørn Howard Kruse and Professor and author Gro Shetelig, sister of Anine and Benedikte Kruse known from the vocal group Pitsj, niece to Philip Antony Kruse and grand child of Colonel Erling Kruse, as well as teacher in music and piano Else Grieg Shetelig.
Fredrik Wilhelm Louis Hiorth was a Norwegian engineer and industrialist.
Lalya Gaye is a Swiss-born digital media artist and interaction designer whose early work was influential in the field of locative media. She lives in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, and she is the founder and director of the international and interdisciplinary digital art practice Attaya Projects.
Jan-Olov Liljenzin (1936-2019) was a Swedish chemist and professor in nuclear chemistry.
Ulrikke Brandstorp, also known mononymously as Ulrikke, is a Norwegian singer, songwriter, musical actress, voice actress and television presenter.
Francesca Refsum Jensenius is a Norwegian political scientist currently working as a professor at the University of Oslo. Her work relates to comparative politics and specifically focuses on the Indian political economy. She received the Nils Klim Prize in 2018 for her contributions to scholarship.
Christian Refsum is a Norwegian literary scholar, poet and novelist. He is full professor of literature at the University of Oslo.
