Elektronmusikstudion EMS Stockholm

Silvia Jiménez Alvarez aka JASSS is back at EMS in September. She is a Berlin-based sound artist, producer and DJ born and raised in Asturias in northern Spain.

Her debut full length album Weightless (iDEAL Recordings) was released in 2017, using imagined nostalgia to demonstrate her visceral approach to avant-garde composition.

JASSS’ show-stopping, apocalyptic and dramatic submission to the esteemed AD93 catalogue titled “Turbo Olé”/”We Solve This Talking”, dropped in 2020. In 2021 the reframing of JASSS’ musical language took flight with the genre collapsing, A World Of Service, featuring her voice as a central instrument alongside electronics and metal tinged percussion on Berlin’s Institutional Ostgut-Ton Label. This was accompanied by a number of revered live performances.

2023 and 2024 have been unceasingly busy for JASSS, continuing to tour internationally while working on various upcoming recorded projects which will be released in 2025.

Photo by Kasia Zacharko

EMS welcomes Augustė Vickunaitė in September. She is a Berlin and Vilnius based sound experimentalist with a background in physics. She graduated Sound Studies and Sonic Arts studies in Udk Berlin.

Augustė exclusively employs vintage reel-to-reel tape recorders to play, record, and create sounds, articulating diverse layers of recordings including found material, field recordings, voice, music instruments, objects, and the whole spectrum of malfunctions of decaying technology. Auguste specializes in tape music, noise, and collage music, known for her theatrical and darkly humorous approach, often exploiting errors of analog audio equipment. Her solo work encompasses tape loops and collages of found audio tapes.

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Photo credit: Orange 'Ear

Call for EMS Artist-In-Residence Program 2025 opens 1 October!

The program welcomes applications by professional composers and sound artists in the field of electroacoustic music and sound art, based outside Sweden.

Deadline for applications is 31 October 2024 [23:59 hours CET].

The application form will be available 1 - 31 October on www.elektronmusikstudion.se

Guest composer at EMS in September is Esme Rebora, an experimental musician and sound artist, constructing allegorical tales within harsh and dissonant environments, often enchanting terror and warmth in chorus.

They mainly work under the alias Bride and also produce under ROTAEWN. They have released on labels such as Psychic Liberation, Mindseyerecords, Post Hoc and Evo Natura.

Their continued exploration of the allure of the uncanny takes shape through solo productions, their record label Alloy Choir and radio residency Heathen Earth on HKCR.

https://esmerebora.com

Wissam Sader is back at EMS in September. He is a self-taught, Lebanese-born sound artist who specializes in experimental music and sound art. His practice revolves around performances and sound installations where he acts as a mediator, creating a space for reflection and self-awareness that invites listeners to delve deep into their own minds. In his performances, he employs repetition, rhythm structures, and a diverse range of noise and tonal elements to challenge the conventional boundaries of the sonic spectrum, blurring the lines between natural and man-made sounds.

He often uses quadraphonic sound systems in his live performances, which allow for an altered perception of sound within the space, creating an immersive and captivating experience for listeners. He is also actively involved in the curation and promotion of experimental music and sound art through his co-curatorial role at Grüntaler, a mobile project that focuses on the production and promotion of experimental music and related practices.

Elektroakustiskt i september: KMH på Norbergfestivalen.
Den 9 september 2024 kl 19.00 i Kungasalen, KMH - Kungl. Musikhögskolan

Sommaren 2024 var tio studenter och lärare från utbildningen i elektroakustisk komposition vid Kungliga Musikhögskolan inbjudna att spela en konsert i Mimerlaven på Norbergfestivalen. Vid detta showcase presenterades ett varierat program av elektroakustisk musik, framförd med nya system och instrument.

Nu repriseras hela denna konsert i Kungasalen, med musik och framträdanden av Hillevi Duus, Henrik Frisk, Johan Lundberg, Jóhann Vignir Vilbergsson, Jon Nensén, Kim Hedås och Monica Åslund Forsén (dans), Leo Bodén, Ludvig Elblaus, Mattias Petersson och Vera V Almgren.

Programblad och bokning av biljetter:
https://www.kmh.se/konserter---evenemang/alla/elektroakustiskt-i-september.html

Musikjournalisten och curatorn Elena Wolay föreläser om Roberta Settels historia, livsgärning och kritik mot massmedia.

🗓️ Datum och tid: 13 september kl. 18.30–19.30
📍 Plats: Scenkonstmuseet, Sibyllegatan 2, Stockholm
🎟️ Pris: 50 kr. Köp din biljett: https://nortic.se/ticket/show/244126

Kan du inte få nog av elektronmusik?

Hör en föreläsning om Roberta Settels historia, livsgärning och kritik mot massmedia.

Musikjournalisten och curatorn Elena Wolay djupdyker i Roberta Settels album ”Music In Crisis”. I albumet finns flera verk med riktad kritik mot media, samt ett ifrågasättande av hur massmedia fungerar. 🔍

Roberta Settels (1929–2014) var en kompositör och konstnär född i New York. Hon blev senare verksam vid Elektronmusikstudion EMS och aktiv i Fylkingen.

🗓️ Datum och tid: 13 september kl. 18.30–19.30
📍 Plats: Scenkonstmuseet, Sibyllegatan 2, Stockholm
🎟️ Pris: 50 kr. Köp din biljett: https://nortic.se/ticket/show/244126

AW på Goethe: Elektronmusikstudion En gång per månad bjuder vi på kulturell afterwork i Goethe-institutets bibliotek. Kvällens gäst är Mats Lindström.

Hör ett samtal om elektronmusiken i retrospektiv. Om ubåtar, stenkastning på islagda sjöar och andra berättelser.

Samtalet hålls av Mats Lindström och tonsättaren samt musikern Ida Lundén.

🎫 Fri entré!
📆 29 augusti kl 18.00-19.30
📍Scenkonstmuseet, Sibyllegatan 2, Stockholm

📸Bild Pär Fredin

At EMS now: Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti and Jochem van Tol are a duo of international stature that develops new music and interdisciplinary, music-theatrical projects at the intersection of contemporary electronic music, improvised acoustic music, physical theatre, film and visual arts.

They draw inspiration from the rituals of the Andes Mountains, from the silence and architecture of Japanese gardens and from the English women and Dutch men who were at the origin of the electric and electronic music of the 20th century.

www.ibelisseguardiaferragutti.com
www.jochemvantol.nl

Elvin Brandhi & KMRU (A|||oy) @ EMS in August!

A|||oy is a collaboration between Elvin Brandhi and KMRU.
A dialogue between both artists' worlds and underworlds, responding to each other's sonic narratives.

Field recordings, voice, noise and drones are transmuted
into an obscure abstract, ebbing in and out of focus, as a creative way finding a profound edge - a limen that both artists linger. An unlearning of both creative practices is exerted, replacing their auditory concepts of thinking sound, alloying new vocabularies through dialogue, performance, and creation.

A|||oy premiered at Berlin ATONAL 2023, as an improvised symphony of chaos and feeling, samples, and voices merging. They were inspired by both the performative intensity and the intimate space of co-creation, sound sharing, and un-thinking.

https://kmru.info
https://elvinbrandhi.bandcamp.com

Catherine Ryan is an Australian artist, writer, performer and musician who works in media including performance, sound, text, video and installation. In August she is a Guest composer at EMS.

Her recent works examine how the imperative to be productive structures the experience of time under neoliberalism, as well as ways that concepts from musicology can provide fresh insights into the ecological crisis.

Her performance lectures blur the boundaries between traditional lectures and live performance, combining the informative and educational aspects of a lecture with the
creative and expressive elements of a performance.

Photo by Eugene Hyland

https://www.catherineryan.com.au/about

Möt EMS studio chef tillika tonsättaren, konstnären och utställningskommissarien Mats Lindström tillsammans med tonsättaren och musikern Ida Lundén.

Scenkonstmuseet bjuder in till ett samtal i retrospektiv med Ida Lundén och Mats Lindström. Hör om ubåtar, stenkastning på islagda sjöar och andra berättelser.

Tid: 29 augusti kl 18.00
Plats: Scenkonstmuseet, Sibyllegatan 2, Stockholm
Fri entré!

On August 22, welcomes you to a conversation based on the exhibition ”EMS Art, Technology & Politics,” with a focus on optimism for the future and electronic music in the late 60s.

Hear the story of when India got its first electronic music studio and how a group of travelling international artists tried to transform an island in the Dalarö archipelago into a Gesamtkunstwerk.

You will also learn about a multi-continental project about the future, initiated by the influential organisation E.A.T. at Moderna Museet in 1971, and how this project has inspired new artistic staging.

The conversation is chaired by Paul Purgas with Anna Lundh, Mats Lindström and You Nakai on link from another continent.

The conversation is held in English.

Time: Aug 22, 18.00
Place: Scenkonstmuseet, Sibyllegatan 2, Stockholm
Free admission!


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In August Thomas Ciufo is working as a Guest composer at EMS. He is a sound artist, composer, improviser, and music technologist working at the intersections of electronic music, electro-acoustic performance, sonic art and emerging technologies. Additional research interests include acoustic ecology and listening practices, audio recording and production, and innovative approaches to teaching and learning. He has performed and presented his work at numerous national and international experimental music festivals and conferences.
His most recent collaborative CD project, ElectroResonance was released on the innovative NEUMA record label.

Thomas is an Associate Professor at Mount Holyoke College, serving in the Music Department and leading the college-wide Arts and Technology Initiative and Directing the Arts and Tech Labs.

https://www.ciufo.org/

We have extended the deadline to sign up until 11 August.

More information and sign up here: https://elektronmusikstudion.se/courses/tillfaelliga-kurser/1529-close-up-blow-up-a-different-way-of-listening

CLOSE UP-BLOW UP - A different way of listening
workshop with Hanna Hartman

When: 24-25 August
Where: Elektronmusikstudion,
Söder Mälarstrand 61, Stockholm
Language: Swedish or English
Fee: 1500 SEK (including VAT)
Deadline: 11 August 2024

Hanna Hartman is an award-winning composer, sound artist and performer based in Berlin. She has composed works for radio, electroacoustic music, ensembles, sound installations and performed live worldwide. Her work has been presented in numerous concerts and festivals around the world.

Olli Aarni is back at EMS in August! (he/him) is an artist living in Helsinki, Finland, working mainly with sound, music, and literature.

His sound-based work comprises electroacoustic music,
field recordings, and acoustic music with traditional instruments.

Aarni’s work has been published on records
in four continents, he has made installations, sound poetry, interactive web-based sound pieces, and radio pieces.

https://olliaarni.com/

Zbigniew Chojnacki is an accordion/live electronics/multitasking player, improviser who can also compose. In August he is a Guest composer at EMS. "With his accordion and heaps of live electronics, Zbigniew Chojnacki is out for musical risks without a safety net. His improvisations pulsate back and forth between ambient, noise, drone and ... blasphemy? In any case, each encounter between artist, audience, space and instrument is completely unlike any previous and all subsequent ones. At times relaxed, at times in a flurry but always on the way to new melodic connections.''

Zbigniew Chojnacki's residency has been made possible with the kind support of the Polish Institute in Stockholm.

OK EG, the duo of Lauren Squire and Matthew Wilson, is a forward thinking electronic music duo from Melbourne that specialises in hardware based live sets. Currently on tour in Europe, the pair are renowned for superbly textural sound design, deep rhythms and a restrained use of colour and harmony. Adept in both club contexts and concert settings, OK EG invites listeners to inhabit their meticulously crafted sonic worlds.

https://linktr.ee/okegmusic

Photo by Cinzia Ubaldi

Working at EMS in June is Ebe Oke, a London-based composer and multimedia artist from South Georgia working with sound, installation and performance to realize experimental compositions exploring identity, technology and our relationship to the natural world.


Artist website: ebeoke.be

Hideki Umezawa (b.1986) is an artist based in Japan. Inspired by a pre-linguistic sense of perception within the environment and a fascination with the complexity of natural phenomena, he engages in production that combines sound and image.

He has received numerous awards, including 1st prize at the Luc Ferrari - Presque Rien Prize (France). His latest work, based on recordings of François Baschet's sound sculptures, premiered at INA-GRM / Présences électronique 2024.

In July EMS welcomes Hideki back as a Guest composer.

Hideki Umezawa's residency is supported by the Scandinavia-Japan Sasakawa Foundation

Special visit today at the EMS anniversary exhibition at Scenkonstmuseet!

Michael Hinton worked at EMS from 1972-1984 as composer, teacher and software designer. Amongst other things he created IMPAC, one of the first computer programs to enable real-time control and manipulation of complex musical sounds and structures.

🎥Short film with Michael Hinton and the EMS computer in 1980, also shown at the exhibition.

📷Michael Hinton with EMS Studio Director Mats Lindström and visiting researcher Sam Roig.

Mem1 seamlessly blends the sounds of cello and electronics to create a limitless palette of sonic possibilities. In their improvisation-based performances, Mark .cetilia and Laura Cetilia’s uniquely subtle approach to extended cello technique and realtime modular synthesis patching results in the creation of a single voice rather than a duet between two individuals. Their music moves beyond melody, lyricism and traditional structural confines, revealing an organic evolution of sound that has been called “a perfect blend of harmony and cacophony” (Forced Exposure).

In July the Cetilias will be Guest composers at EMS.

http://laura.cetilia.org/
http://mark.cetilia.org/
http://mem1.com/

Felicity Mangan is an Australian sound artist and composer based in Berlin, Germany who is Guest composer at EMS in June.

In different situations such as solo performances and collaborative projects, Felicity samples and plays her field recordings and found sounds to create quasi-bioacoustic music.

https://felicitymangan.org/

Dana Schechter is a Berlin-based multi-instrumentalist, composer, vocalist, and producer, hailing originally from San Francisco, USA.

Monocube, who comes from Odessa, Ukraine and now is based in Berlin, explores the fields of electronic music mostly using analog synths/instruments.

In their project, the two artists will create an audiovisual project; musically they will combine melodic, harmonic, and textural patterns using modular synthesis and human voice, to be later merged with their original visual works.

This new collaboration was formed to explore the unity
which exists within the artists' respective sonic and visual fascinations, with a focus on cultivating the exact intersections where their two practices collide.

Regarding the work at EMS, the technical system of modular synthesis becomes the ideal conduit for the sonic realization of rhythmic and harmonic patterns, and their echoes in the human body. An inspirational point of reference for this idea comes from the concept of “The Evolutionary Biology of Musical Rhythm”, as found in Charles Darwin’s "The Descent of Man", which posits a deeply rooted response mechanism in the human brain and body to rhythmic sounds found within the body itself, such as the heartbeat, gait, or nonlinear oscillations of the brain's neural impulses.

Photo of Dana Schechter by Bart Verhelst
Photo of Monocube by Laurence Chapero

https://elektronmusikstudion.se/composers/2024/1525-dana-monocube

127 musikkonstnärer delar på knappt 11 miljoner kronor i arbetsstipendier

https://www.konstnarsnamnden.se/nyheter/127-musikkonstnarer-delar-pa-knappt-11-miljoner-kronor-i-arbetsstipendier/

Konstnärsnämnden delar årligen ut arbetsstipendier till musikkonsten. Vid årets fördelning beviljas 127 ansökningar till ett sammanlagt belopp av 10 943 800 kronor.

95 musikkonstnärer får ettåriga arbetsstipendier om 80 000 kronor, 30 musikkonstnärer får tvååriga arbetsstipendier om 100 000 kronor/år och två musikkonstnärer får femåriga arbetsstipendier om tre prisbasbelopp (171 900 kronor år 2024).

Urvalet speglar en bredd av olika musikaliska uttryck och stipendierna går till musikkonstnärer verksamma i olika delar av Sverige. Den yngsta stipendiaten är 26 år och den äldsta är 72 år.

De två som erhållit femårigt stipendium är musikern/komponisten Josefina ”Ji” Nilsson (Stockholm), och musikern/komponisten Maher Cissoko (Lund).

Av de som erhållit tvåårigt stipendium kan nämnas komponisten Siri Jennefelt (Stockholm), musikern/komponisten Anders Kjellberg, (Mölnlycke) musikern/komponisten Linus Hillborg (Stockholm), musikern/komponisten Petrus Dillner (Järvsö), musikern Mårten Falk, (Eskilstuna) och musikern Naomi Namasenda, (Hägersten).

https://www.konstnarsnamnden.se/beviljade-bidrag/arbetsstipendium-inom-musik-2024/

Bildtext: Komponisten Siri Jennefelt, foto av Marlena Salonen.