EAM at KMH

The Royal College of Music in Stockholm (KMH) hosts one of the world’s most prominent university level programs in electroacoustic composition. With a national remit to teach this subject, they have some of the world’s best-equipped studios for electroacoustic music as well as dedicated concert venues, designed for immersive sonic experiences. Thus, KMH’s new premises, centrally located and close to Stockholm's many music and art scenes, have the latest in audio technology, provide both students and teachers with opportunities to experiment with sound and space and to create music in unconventional forms.

At this showcase, a delegation of students and teachers from the electroacoustic composition department at KMH presents a varied program of new music, based on the theme “transients”.

The concert includes the following artists presented below: August Lekander, David Linnros, Edvin Marklund, Erik Mettävainio, Felicia Sjögren, Henrik Frisk, Ludvig Elblaus, Márk Bartha, Mattias Petersson, Nora Fagerblom, and Ola Bergman.

August Lekander

August Lekander, 19 years old. Currently studying at KMH, first year bachelor, electroacoustic composition, exploring the field of No-Input-Mixing.

David Linnros

Stockholm-based improvisor, composer and performer of electroacoustic and noise music.

Edvin Marklund

Edvin Marklund is a Swedish visual artist and sound composer based in Stockholm. He produces audio focused on timbre and texture through a process of mainly studio-based experimentation. Influenced by minimalism, glitch, ambient, noise and electroacoustic music, the work invites introspection and presence through listening. During live performances, concepts of improvisation and feedback are often explored. Central themes include darkness, materiality and consciousness.

Erik Mettävainio

Erik Mettävainio (b.2004) works with recorded and synthesised materials to form organic and texturally diverse compositions,largely based on gesture and scale as a material itself. Initially trained as a jazz vocalist, he later turned toward electroacoustic composition through an interest in timbre and dense harmony, often translating vocal phrasings into electronic contexts. His work exhibits themes of nature romanticism and urbanism, and particularly the constructing of identity within and between these contexts.

Felicia Sjögren

Felicia Sjögren is a Swedish artist and composer living in Stockholm. Her work often takes the form of site-specific installations and live performances. Her practice is informed by experiences of anarchist projects and research that involves learning from/with DIY communities and amateur groups. In her sonic work she uses antennas, electronic synthesis, field recordings and acoustic instruments/materials.

Henrik Frisk

Henrik Frisk is an active performer of improvised and contemporary music and a composer of electroacoustic music. As a professor at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm he is also the head of research, and his own research is concerned with improvisation, interactivity, spatialisation and collaborative practices. Henrik has performed in many countries in Europe, North America and Asia, and as a composer he has received commissions from many institutions, ensembles and musicians. Numerous recordings, mostly collaborations, are available on American, Canadian, Swedish and Danish record labels.

Ludvig Elblaus

Ludvig Elblaus is an artist and researcher working primarily with computational materials to create electroacoustic music, as well as audio-visual installations, museum exhibits, and contributions to larger collaborative works in several traditions, e.g. opera, theater, and dance. His artistic practice explores dynamical systems, site-specificity, emergence, extended temporal structures and deep listening. Elblaus is based in Stockholm, Sweden, where he teaches at the Royal College of Music. His latest projects include commissions for the GRM Acousmonium, the Labor Sonor Festival, the Elevate Festival, and performances in Stockholm, Cairo, Vienna, Paris, Zurich, Berlin and Graz. In 2022 he was composer in residence at the Institute for Electronic Music and Acoustics in Graz and in 2023 he worked in the Moving Loudspeakers Artistic Residency at the Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology at ZHdK.

Márk Bartha

Márk Bartha (1990) is a composer, sound designer, and performer based in Stockholm and Budapest. His work explores the intersections of sound, space, and perception, often employing alternative tuning systems, site-responsive approaches and spatial sound. His project ‘Ensemble in Limbo’ is an “open ensemble” project focused on exploring the intersection of acoustic and electronic music, investigating spatial and sonic phenomena through live instrumental drone music.

Mattias Petersson

Mattias Petersson is a composer and performer based in Stockholm. He is part of the vibrant computer music scene with a personal take on live coding and modular synthesis. His music has been performed worldwide and released on labels like Hallow Ground, Moving Furniture Records, CODEPENDENT, IDEAL Recordings and Fylkingen records. He works primarily with electronic music but has also written chamber music, a number of operas and music for dance performances. His music moves seamlessly within classical and electroacoustic music, through drone and noise, often with a rhythmically driven pulse. As a senior lecturer at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm he is the head of the electroacoustic composition programs, and his research involves modular systems and live-electronic performance.

Nora Fagerblom

Coming from a background in rave culture and years behind the decks as a DJ, Nora Fagerblom (aka kräm / Fader Anarchist) approaches the CDJ as a tactile instrument for live performance, using gesture, layering, looping and effects processing as tools for sound fragmentation and drift. Alongside studies at KMH, Nora is part of the creative collective Lur, organising events and releases, supporting and contributing to Stockholm’s DIY music community.

Ola Bergman

Emerging from Stockholm, with over two decades in the electronic music scene, Ola Bergman has established a distinctive sound where electro, acid, and proto-techno are distilled and fused into new kaleidoscopic expressions. At KMH, Bergman explores more abstract elements within music, investigating the possible and impossible landscapes of synthetic sound. As part of the KMH showcase at Norbergfestivalen, he will perform a live set at Mimerlaven, focusing on personal and partly improvised aspects of the given theme, transients – which comes with a bit of a challenge and a very specific approach – due to the unusual and rather spectacular acoustics that Mimer has to offer.