[Elektronmusikstudion 60 years jubilee showcase]

Elektronmusikstudion, usually abbreviated as EMS, is the national centre for Swedish electroacoustic music and sound-art. EMS mission is to provide studios to professional composers and sound artists in the field of electroacoustic music and sound art for production, development work and educational activities. In addition to providing studios EMS' aim is to support artistic development of electroacoustic music and its integration within other artistic areas. EMS represents electroacoustic music from Sweden in various international contexts, gives regular evening courses on the subject, and runs an extensive international guest composer program hosting up to eighty visiting artists and composers per year.

Founded in 1964, originally as a part of the Swedish Radio, EMS is now celebrating its sixtieth year of operation with a large exhibition on the history of the studio and electroacoustic music in Sweden at the Museum of Performing Arts in Stockholm.

The collaboration between EMS and Norbergfestival goes back almost 20 years and has included a long-running series of off-site performances at Risbergs Verkstad in collaboration with Region Västmanland, commissioned pieces produced in residency at EMS and performed in Mimer as well as sound installations and multichannel presentations.

For this year’s anniversary edition of Norbergfestival EMS is proud to present three performers with three distinctly personal approaches to compositions and the live performance of electronic music: Marta Forsberg, Lars Åkerlund and Egil Kalman.