Instruments with pseudo human intent, 2011 Sound artist Bjorn Hatleskog works under the name Romvelope.

His primary inspirations are musical instruments and the paraphernalia of musical performance; guitar hardware, mic stands, flight cases and cables, the peripheral elements such as sound systems. Staging and lighting setups are also considered. He has said, ‘my particular interest is in the way musical equipment is organized and structured, the weird conventions, theatrics and fetishization that takes place'.

Having released experimental music for the past 10 years via his record label ADAADAT and spending countless hours waiting around during sound checks in empty music venues, he developed an appreciation for the unusual ambience, the hum of the equipment and the formal, quasi-religious arrangement of black boxes.

Struck with a desire to create something that exists somewhere between sound and sculpture, he started building semi-autonomous musical instruments. He is focusing on the kind of noise or undesirable sound that conventional instrument designers seek to remove from their creations.

The current installation features fluorescent lighting and a pair of modified Fisher Price Turntables functioning as primitive sequencers switching electrical currents on and off, electromagnetic interference producing toilet seat shaped instruments, a self-strumming guitar, a device that transforms the electrical signal from the lights into sound waves and, Robotic Percussion.

OXYGEN: Artist Membership Programme

The above artist has enrolled in Kinetica Museum's artist member programme

Kinetica's membership scheme was launched in November 2010, and aims to provide Kinetica with the opportunity to extend our artist network whilst fostering emerging talent. This membership level provides another access point for practitioners to show work at our annual art fair, where over forty exhibitors take up stands in order to show and sell their work. Oxygen members are entitled to a profile on our Kinetica Museum website, and gain access to Kinetica's interim exhibitions as well as our networks. The feature exhibition at the 2013 fair will be comprised of artworks created by our artist members. The feature exhibition is curated by Kinetica Museum's Artistic Director Dianne Harris, and the final selectins will be announced in Autumn 2012. For more information on our artist membership scheme, please visit the MEMBERSHIP section of this website.