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Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Mellander, Sofia
Parallel form(s) of name
- Salt
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Description area
Dates of existence
fl c2020s
History
Sofia Mellander, who also goes by the stage name Salt, is a sound artist, musician, and filmmaker. Her work spans from pop music to hymns, to binaural experiences and documentaries. Themes found in the work include incels, assisted suicide, sex, and how insane it was that Brian from the Beach Boys wrote that song ‘Hey Little Tomboy’. Her practice at GSA ventures into more experimental areas, with less rigid narrative and sonic structures than she’s previously explored. She has an MDes Sound for the Moving Image from GSA's School of Simulation & Visualisation and was awarded the Foulis Medal in 2022.
Mellander was born in Stockholm, Sweden but has lived in Miami (USA), Costa-Rica, Ghana, Germany, England and Scotland since she was four. She currently works and performs in Glasgow.