Norm Skipp
Norman
Skipp (b.1971) is a New Zealand based composer/sonic artist, video artist and
online editor. He graduated with a Bachelor of Music from the University of Auckland
in 1994 after studies with Jack Body, David Farquhar and Ross Harris at Victoria
University of Wellington, completing his degree with John Elmsly and John Rimmer
in Auckland. Since graduating he has worked primarily in the electro-acoustic
medium often collaborating with other artists to create works such as Safe
In Sound and Feast;
multilevelled works blending sonic art, butoh, theatre, video art and instrumental
performance and Epithalamion;
a live-processing realisation of e. e. cummings poem with actor Michael Hurst
for the (09)03 Contemporary Music Festival. His video and sound work has been
performed in New Zealand, Australia, U.S.A., U.K., France and Canada. Recent works
include Beyond Skin;
a mixed media dance collaboration with choreographer Kathleen Skipp and An
Aversion to Light [2]'; a short dance film collaboration
with choreographer Kristian Larsen and composer leyton. Norm travelled to the
U.K. and U.S.A. in February 2006 where he performed Of
Breath, a duo for clarinet and electronic sounds,
with clarinettist Gretchen Dunsmore.
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