Monday 23 February 2015, 8pm
Showcase night for the great veteran Swedish experimental venue and artist's society, Fylkingen. Since its establishment in the 1930's, Fylkingen has been committed to experimental work in the contemporary performing arts. The organisation is made up of over 250 member artists from many disciplines who use the venue in Stockholm to develop and present new work.
The live computer music of London-based composers Erik Nyström and Lee Fraser presents a bold and decisive blend of spontaneous improvised collisions and detailed sonic architecture. Fraser and Nyström are both experienced electroacoustic composers and have been performing together as a duo since 2014 (their first appearance was at Fylkingen, Sep 2014). Lee Fraser is current with the Dark Camber CD release on Entr'acte (2014) and Erik Nyström with the Morphonenèse CD release on empreintes DIGITALes (2014).
Helene Hedsund is a composer of mostly electroacoustic music. At the moment she is doing a Ph.D. in Birmingham, but she has been active at EMS (www.elektronmusikstudion.se) in Stockholm since 1994. For more info see: http://helene.hedsund.se.
She will present the work 'Klinga' for speakers.
Lisa Ullén is a pianist and composer, born in Seoul, Korea, raised in the north part of Sweden. She has fronted her own quartet, since the mid nineties, and to date has released as a pianist over 30 albums . She studied at the Royal Musical Academy, Stockholm, and conducted further studies in jazz at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA, EAM at the electronic music studio EMS in Stockholm and the Royal Institute of Art. She has been working for many years in the field of improvisation, free jazz and contemporary art music. Ullén tours internationally, solo as well in different groups.
“...from the ashes, something wholly new is created. It's as if the melancholy violin rises from the ruins and, like a postapocalyptic Mad Max, dusts himself off to continue towards new adventures. At that moment I refuse to believe all the predictions that classical music is withering away." (Johanna Paulsson, Dagens Nyheter, about the project reBiber)
There are no more four seasons is the name of a duo comprised of the electronic musician Mattias Petersson and classical violinist George Kentros. They take older pieces of music and recompose them in order to once again become relevant to our times. They are also quite the live band, playing everything from rock festivals to concert halls, as well as conducting workshops for conservatories and musically inclined youths. Their self-titled debut CD was named one of the ten best classical recordings of the past decade by Sweden’s biggest daily paper Dagens Nyheter, and Time Out New York called them a must see concert, writing that ”the result fits together more perfectly than any Ikea bookshelf.”
See also www.nomoremusic.se .
