CM von Hausswolff

The biography of CM von Hausswolff is one that reads like a jack of all trades biography, not only of his musical works and sound art, but also of fine art, installations, conceptual works, exhibits and live performances. He is perhaps best known as one of the “Kings” along with other King, Leif Elggren in the project known as KREV (the Kingdoms of Elgaland and Vargaland). A country with no borders but also no official place in the UN. It’s an assembly that has fully devoted itself to all things art, music and craft with its citizens spanning the globe as established Ministries all have their own self-proclaimed titles. In 1986, he formed the Swedish independent label Radium 226.05 and in 1990 he formed the label Anckarström. Yet he has managed to have releases on every label from Touch. (UK) to Raster Noton and many others in between. CM von Hausswolff is also known sonically for his collaborative curations such as freq_out and more recently freq_wave, of which the latter was a virtual online world-wide project hosted by tba21 and consisted of 84 international artists during the covid-19 pandemic of 2020. Amongst other projects, von Hausswolff is also known for his iterative performances of viruses. He also has numerous collaborations with others going back to his duo with Erik Pauser known as Phauss, his more well known duo with Jónsi of Sigur Rós, Dark Morph, collaborating in live performances and recordings with friends including the likes of Leif Elggren, John Duncan, Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Christopher Chaplin, Peter Rehberg, Mika Vainio, Zbigniev Karkowski, Lee Gamble, filmmaker Thomas Nordanstad, Graham Lewis (Wire), Jean-Louis Huhta in the group OSCID evp (electronic voice phenomenon) collaborations with Michael Esposito and more recently Travelogue with Chandra Shukla and numerous collaborations and solo pieces with so many countless others that they are too long to list here. His discography goes back to the 1970s with easily over 100 releases. CM von Hausswolff is also known for his visual works and performances employing the color Red. He is also the father of musical composer Anna von Hausswolff and film maker Maria von Hausswolff.