S. HANSSON
I've been exploring music and sound for as long as I can remember. My professional experience in systems development and programming has led me to a career as sound designer in the games industry.
I have undergraduate studies in Musicology and Information Science, and graduate studies in Game Audio.
SOUND DESIGN AND MUSIC COMPOSITION
I produce sound effects, ambience and music on commission for video games, stage art and other media. I enjoy the technical aspects of Game Audio, but artistic vision is also important in my work. I'm most familiar with the dark and eerie, or the light but dreamy and surreal. But I also love a challange, getting out of my comfort zone and creating in unfamiliar styles.
Photo from MYSK dance production Shakti, by Daniela.
SOUND ART
In my sound art I free myself from the rythms, time signatures and tempos that are such important elements in my music composition. Inner worlds and meditative states are explored in parallell with acoustics of musical instruments, objects and rooms. Highlights of the sessions are elevated in editing.
I'm especially interested in collaborations with visual artists for exhibitions.
BLACK METAL
I have a life long experience in Black Metal music. While having released more conventional productions with my own band Nachtlieder, I have a firmly rooted love for the necro recording style. The "take what you have" approach is used to access the raw musical material, the production process to highlight strengths and unique essence of the musicians. Everything blended with my aesthetic of the thick, ugly and twisted.
ARTISTIC CV
- Master's degree in Media, Aesthetics and Narration at University of Skövde, 2024.
- Unmet, Disquiet. Interactive and performative sound installation in collaboration with Jamie Fawcus and Anna Granath. Technical sound design and interactivity implementation. LudoKonst Festival, 2023.
- SkräpMonstret. Sound design for children's dance theatre, by MYSK Indian Dance 2022.
- Participation as dancer in Dansakademins LABB2021 at Regionteater Väst, with choreographer Anette Pooja.
- Region Västra Götaland's scholarship for artists, 2020.
- Views from the North vol. I. EP under the name Nachtlieder, composer and musician. Nigredo Records 2020.
- Avgrunden. Music video for Nachtlieder. Concept, choreography and performance together with Anette Pooja.
- Tidens gång/Passage of time. Sound piece for the exhibition Save the Best for Last, composer, audio engineer and musician. Växjö konsthall Nov 2019-Jan2020.
- Shakti. Music for full length dance production. Composer, musician and audio engineer. 3e Våningen Feb 2019.
- Lynx. Full lenght album under the name Nachtlieder, composer and musician. Nigredo Records 2018.
- Winds of Transilvania. Full length album. Musician and audio engineer. Blackmoon Records 2016.
- The Female of the Species. Full lenght album under the name Nachtlieder, composer and musician. I, Voidhanger Records 2015.
- Nachtlieder. Full lenght album under the name Nachtlieder, composer and musician. Unmerciful Death Productions 2013.
- Region Västra Götaland's scholarship for artists, 2011.
- Bachelor thesis in musicology, Gothenburg University, 2010.