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Jana Winderen is a Norwegian artist whose work focuses on the sounds of environments which are hidden or difficult for humans to access or perceive directly. She is particularly known for works utilising underwater recordings of seas and natural bodies of water including the diversity of their marine wildlife. Northern and polar locations often feature in her recordings. Her works include immersive multi-channel sound installations and concerts which have been presented around the world.

Winderen has also released on Touch. In 2011 she was awarded the Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica prize in the category of Digital Musics and Sound Art by for her work 'Energy Field'. She has also collaborated with sonic artists including Thomas Köner and Chris Watson and has been commissioned by the Guggenheim and MoMA in New York and TBA-21 in Istanbul.

Notes: ecology through contrasting sound recordings -- example of acoustic ecology; scientific approach and background

Winderen and her work have been featured on BBC Radio 3 , BBC Radio 4 and BBC World Service.

Early life and education
Winderen was born in 1965 in Bodø, Norway, located just north of the Arctic Circle. She has a background in mathematics, chemistry and fish ecology gained at the University of Oslo and later studied fine art at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Career
Since 1993 Winderen has worked as an artist, curator and producer.

In 2010 she was commissioned by TBA21 to create a work Between Dry Land for Matthew Ritchie's The Morning Line, a largescale installation incorporating 47-speaker spatial sound, during its exhibition in Istanbul. Yasunao Tone, Carl Michael von Hausswolff and Peter Zinovieff also created audio works for the Istanbul show.

In 2011 she won the Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica prize in the category of Digital Musics for Energy Field. More details ...

In 2013, her work Ultrafield was shown as part of SOUNDINGS at Museum of Modern Art, New York City. The work takes recordings of various animals communicating using ultrasound such as bats and insects and pitched these down into the range of human hearing, bringing their sonic realities into reach.

In 2014, Dive was commissioned for the Park Avenue Tunnel, New York City during its closure.

Album discography
Solo
 * 2009 The Noisiest Guys On The Planet (Ash International)
 * 2010 Energy Field (Touch)
 * 2014 Out Of Range (Touch)
 * 2018 Spring Bloom In The Marginal Ice Zone (Touch)

with Thomas Köner
 * 2017 Cloître (Touch)