Haaland has a particular interest in Thai Traditional Music Instruments and are collaborating with Thai, Southeast Asian and Arabic artists on how to compose and perform new and innovative soundscapes rooted in the respective cultures.
He has a master in popular music performance (2010) and published his PhD thesis Intercultural Musical Collaboration – Towards A Global Sound (2020) as an innovative stand-alone webpage () combining artistic research and popular musicology. Ingolv Haaland (b.1973) is a composer, arranger, pianist and scholar who have collaborated with independent artists, musicians and academic institutions in Southeast Asia and The Middle East since 2006. Professor of Popular Music Studies, University of Agders, Norway
