PUBLISHED TEXTS BY ÅSA STJERNA
2022
Journal of Contemporary Music, Nutida Musik, Spring issue.
Ljud som ambivalent vittnesmål och det etiska ansvaret att förvalta andras vittnesmål:
Susanne Skog och Åsa Stjerna om Lawrence Abu Hamdans utställning Dirty Evidens vid Bonniers Konsthall hösten 2021.
//Sound as Ambivalent Testimony and the Ethical Responsibility to Manage the Testimony of Others:
Susanne Skog and Åsa Stjerna on Lawrence Abu Hamdan's exhibition Dirty Evidence at Bonniers Konsthall in autumn 2021.
2021
ETN: H2O. Lund university
Editors: Susanne Lundin, Johanna Rivano Eckerdal and Lynn Åkesson.
"Multiröster och ljudet under vatten"
[Multi-voices and sound in water]
Co-written together with Sanne Krogh-Groth
2019
Nutida Musik, no 276 2019
Journal of Contemporary Music and Sound Art
Järn – ljud – bakterier
Cecilia Jonssons Transformationer
Om Jonssons konstverk Contemporary Diagram Berlin [– Iron – Sound – Bacterias
Cecilia Jonsson's Transformations
On Jonsson's artwork Contemporary Diagram Berlin]
2019
Nutida Musik, no 276
(September, 2019)
Journal of Contemporary Music and Sound Art
Interviewed by Susanne Skog
"The future of sound art"
2019
Public Art Dialogue Journal | Sound Sites
Co-editing special issue of the American journal Public Art Dialogue together with Charles Eppley, on sonic public art.
2019
Socialmedicinsk Tidskrift (smt)
– Journal of Social Medicine
Contributing with a text on sitespecific sonic practice
Special Issue: "Helth as Art" (Hälsa är konst)
2019
Ljudkonst, Publication
Red: Åsa Stjerna and Andreas Engström
OEI Editör. Kungl. Musikaliska akademiens skriftserie #140 336 pages including 14 essays on sound art translated into Swedish. Contributing aouthors include: Helga de la Motte-Haber, David Toop, Douglas Kahn, Volker Straebel, Barbara Barthelmes, Golo Föllmer, Gernot Böhme, Frauke Behrendt, Gascia Ouzounian, Brandon LaBelle, Salomé Voegelin, Seth Kim- Cohen, Christoph Cox och Tara Rodgers.
2018
Stjerna, Å. Transversal Processes in Site-Specific Sonic Practice (2018)
Doctoral Thesis in Artistic Research, Academy of Music and Drama, University of Gothenburg
2017
Stjerna, Å. “Rumslighet – Interaktion. Compoz i en ljudkonstkontext.”(“Spatiality – Interaction. Compoz in a soundart context”, in Compoz by Audiorama Publication, 2017.
2013
Stjerna, Å., ”Aspects on Duration: The Vulnerability of Permanence in Site-Specific Sound Art in Public Space” – Leonardo Music Journal. LMJ 23: 2013. Theme issue on Sound Art.
2011
Guest Editor of Nutida Musik, no., 2011, Theme issue on the human voice
Including:
Stjerna, Å., "Josef Protschka – Pojken bakom rösten" ("Josef Protschka – The Boy Behind the Voice"), Nutida Musik, no. 4, 2011, p.5-9
A portrait and interview with Josef Prouschka, the twelve year old boy who lent his voice for Stockhausen's Gesang der Jünglinge.
Stjerna, Å., "Att identifiera en röst – intervju med Jonas Lind, specialist i rättsfonetik", ("The Art of Identifying a Voice – Interview with Jonas Lind, specialist in forensic phonetics"), Nutida Musik, no. 4, 2011, p.26-31.
Stjerna, Å., "Rösten som abstrakt verklighet - ett samtal med Peter Ablinger" ("The Voice as Abstract Reality – A Conversation with Peter Ablinger)",
Nutida Musik, no. 4, 2011, p.5-9, p.32-37.
2009
Engström, A., and Å. Stjerna, "Sound Art or Klangkunst? A reading of the German and English literature on sound art ”, Organised Sound – An international Journal of Music and Technology, vol. 14, issue 01. Theme issue on Sound Art.
2008
Stjerna, Å., "Att inta position – Intervju med Gisela Nauck, chefsredaktör för den tyska musiktidskriften Positionen" ("Taking a Position – Interview With Gisela Nauck, Chief Editor for Positionen, A German Journal of Contemporary Music"), Nutida Musik, no. 2, 2008, p. 22-27.
2007
Stjerna, Å., "Att läsa mellan raderna" ("Reading Between the Lines"),
Nutida Musik, no. 4, 2007, p. 6-11.
On interpretation of contemporary music. A portrait of the flutist Sara Hammarström.
2007
Guest Editor of Nutida Musik no. 4, 2006 – no. 1 – 2007 Theme issue on spatial perspectives of sound art.
The issue puts focus on the spatial related forms of sound art covering both theoretical texts on the discourse of sound art, and in-depth texts on sound artists such as Bernhard Leitner, Robin Minard, and Max Neuhaus presented for the first time in Sweden.
Including:
Engström, A., and Å. Stjerna, "Ljudkonst – Den svenska modellen" ("Sound Art The Swedish Model"), Nutida Musik, no. 4, 2006 – no. 1, 2007, p. 5-12.
Engström, A., and Å. Stjerna, "Varför har den svenska konsten varit så tyst? Och varför låter den så mycket idag?" ("Why the Swedish Art Used to be Silent – And Why it Sounds so Much Today"), Nutida Musik, no. 4, 2006 – no. 1, 2007, p. 13-20. A conversation with philosopher and art critic Sven-Olov Wallenstein.
Stjerna, Å., "Att färga rummet med ljud" – Ett porträtt av ljudkonstnären Robin Minard" Coloring Space with Sound – A portrait of Sound Artist Robin Minard"), Nutida Musik, no. 4, 2006 – no. 1, 2007, p. 21-26.
Stjerna, Å., "Tre x Ljudinstallationer" ("Three x Sound Installations"),
Nutida Musik, no. 4, 2006 – no. 1, 2007, p. 21-26.
On Christina Kubisch's Licht Himmel, Bernhard Leitner's Cylindre Sonore and Max Neuhauses Time Square.
Stjerna, Å., "Hur låter ett rum? – Om Kirsten Reeses ljud och videoinstallation Hallenfelder" ("How Does A Space Sound? – On Kirsten Reese's Sound and Video Installation Hallendfelder")
Nutida Musik, no. 4, 2006 – no. 1, 2007, p. 35-38.
Stjerna, Å., "Den klingande konsten byter boning – Om Singuhr Hörgaleri, Berlin" ("Changed Location for Sound Art – On Singuhr Hörgalerie, Berlin"), Nutida Musik, no. 4, 2006 – no. 1, 2007, p. 61-64.
2006
Stjerna, Å., "Hanna Hartman – Mellan det konkreta och det abstrakta"
(Hanna Hartman – Between the concrete and the abstract"),
Nutida Musik, no. 2, 2006, p. 5-9.
On the composer Hanna Hartman’s composition The felling of tall trees entails danger.
2005
Stjerna, Å., "Elektromagnetiska stadsvandringar – Åsa Stjerna om att arbeta med tyska ljudkonstnären Christina Kubisch" ("Electromagnetic City Walks – On Working With Sound Artist Christina Kubisch”), Nutida Musik, no. 4, 2005, p. 15-19.
BROADCASTING
2019
Kulturnyheterna P1, Swedish Radio
Interview on Sound as artistic medium in public space
2019
Kulturnyheterna P1, Swedish Radio
Interview on my dissertation
2013
Musikmagasinet On Sound Art. Interviewed by Mikael Strömberg.
2010
One hour program about the Austrian sound artist Bernhard Leitner.
A commission from the Swedish National Broadcasting, Sveriges Radio P2 Monitor.
SELECTED TEXTS ABOUT
ÅSA STJERNA'S WORKS
2021
Konwledge of Art /Konstens kunskap
Art Monitor —Fredrik Nyberg&Niclas Östlind red./eds.
A study in the methods, theories and results of Artistic Research viewed through twelve PhD-theses defended at the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Prforming Arts at the University
of Gothenburg.
2021
"Exhibiting Sound Art" (Wolke-Verlag) Publication (2021). Musicologist Julia Schröder contributes with a text about my premanent sound installation The Well
2021
Berliner Zeitung
Exhibition Review of my sound installation Earth Song at Heroines of Sound Festival 2021
2019
Stockholmstidningen / Mossutställningar
Interview by urban planner and researcher Helen Runting
2017
Braunschweiger Zeitung.
Exhibition Review. Klangstaetten StadtklaengeBraunschweig 2017
2017
Konsten i Bild- och interventionscentrum
Sahlgrenska Universitetssjukhuset.
Magnus Haglund: "Vädrets musik"
– En betraktelse över Åsas Stjernas ljudinstallation Himmel nedtagen.
2016
Marler Medienkunstpreise 2016
Klangkunst|Medienkunst.
Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl
Exhibition cathalogue
2016 Sydöstran
Exhibition Review
Marle Balticum | Ronneby konsthall
2016
Pendula Bergiorum (Parken som Tid)(Pendula Bergiorum (The Park as Time) in OEI | Grön våglängd; trädgårdar, parker, växter
2016
Ljud, Affekt och det offentliga rummet – Ett samtal mellan Åsa Stjerna och Christoph Cox
| Nutida Musik, hösten 2016
2016
Lyssnare by Magnus Haglund
Korpen Förlag
2015
Sound, Affect and Public Space
– A conversation between Åsa Stjerna and Christoph Cox
in Dirty Ear Report #1, Errant Bodies Press, Fall 2016
Information about Errant Bodies Press
2015
Nutida Musik
Exhibition Review Gute Ljaudkarte
by Anna E Weisser.
2012 ARTnord | French Art journal
Text by Luisa Greenfield
2012 Kehrer Verlag, Drawings, Sounds and Ambiances
2011 Uppsala nya tidning (daily newspaper, Sweden)
2010 Svenska Dagbladet (daily newspaper, Sweden)
2009 Tagesspiegel (daily newspaper, Germany)
2009 Svenska Dagbladet (daily newspaper, Sweden)
2009 Tv4 (Swedish television network | regional news)
2009 Dagens Nyheter (daily newspaper, Sweden)
2008 Vestmanlands Läns Tidning (regional daily newspaper, Sweden)
2008 Tv4 (Swedish television network | regional news)
2008 Smålandsposten (regional daily newspaper, Sweden)
2008 Östgötacorren (regional daily newspaper, Sweden)
2007 Tagesspiegel (daily newspaper, Germany)