EMS 60 år: Elektronmusikstudion – konst, teknik och politik/art, technology and politics
Utställningen visas på Scenkonstmuseet 1 December 2023 - 1 September 2024
(In English below)
Elektronmusikstudion, EMS, i Stockholm är ett av världens äldsta och främsta fästen för elektronisk musik och ljudkonst. Det här är historien om en utopisk framtidsvision, ny teknik som ska rädda världen och en statlig storsatsning på elektronmusik.
Read more: EMS 60 år: Elektronmusikstudion – konst, teknik och politik/art, technology and politics
Matt Rogalsky @ EMS 14-27 May, 2024
Matt Rogalsky is a settler-identifying Canadian, living in Kingston Ontario Canada, also known as Katarokwi, on territories of the Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee. His academic background includes undergraduate studies in experimental music at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver with Martin Bartlett, Barry Truax, Pauline Oliveros and George E Lewis from 1985-1991; MA studies 1993-95 in the Department of Music at Wesleyan University with Ron Kuivila, Alvin Lucier, Anthony Braxton and many others; and a PhD (1999-2006) from City University London focusing on the history of David Tudor's Rainforest, supervised by Simon Emmerson.
Mercedes Krapovickas @ EMS 9 - 16 May, 2024
Mercedes Krapovickas, born and raised in Argentina and currently based in Finland, is a composer, performer, and sound artist whose passion lies at the intersection of composition, performance, and improvisation. With a background as a bandoneonist, pianist, and composer, Mercedes brings a wealth of experience and innovation to her creative projects.
Photo by Kristian Presnal
Zuriñe F Gerenabarrena @ EMS 6-19 May, 2024
We are please to see Zuriñe F Gerenabarrena back at EMS. Born in the Basque Country, Gerenabarrena is a versatile composer, has written pieces for orchestra, chamber ensembles, theater, dance, animation, sound installations and multidisciplinary projects. She has been invited to several international forums and also worked as a resident artist.
Gerenabarrena highlights the importance of the use of electronic media, capturing the soundscape or its use as tools to deepen the possibilities of transformation in instrumental and vocal work. She is Professor of Counterpoint and Harmony at MUSIKENE (Higher Conservatory of Music, Basque Country).
Benjamin Thigpen & Stefano Bassanese @ EMS 29 April - 5 May, 2024
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Laurén Maria @ EMS 29 April - 5 May, 2024
In her musical spheres, or in the realms of her life at large, Laurén Maria dances with her surrounding not in an external way, but in one which seems to be felt internally, to herself at least, communicating through her voice & organic sounds often electronically modified.
Photo by Ludwig Wandinger
Berk Yagli @ EMS 17 April - 1 May, 2024
Berk Yagli (b.1999) is a Cypriot guitarist, composer, and producer. His mission with his music has been to talk about social, political, and philosophical matters interestingly to invite the listeners to reflect on the topics.
He has been active in the UK for the past six years due
to his education in Music and Sound Technology (University of Portsmouth), Masters in Composition (University of Sheffield), and currently at the University
of the Arts London working under Adam Stanovic for his Ph.D. topic hybridity between metal and electroacoustic music. During his master's, his main focus has been electroacoustic music composition, and currently,
he is studying and working on the potential hybridity of electroacoustic music with metal music.
He also composed, produced, and released a cinematic/epic social commentary progressive metal album ‘Symphony of Humanity’ in 2021.
He regularly gives lectures and workshops at different universities and institutions including Staffordshire University, The University of the Arts London, and
The University of Manchester.
Mahakit Mahaniranon and Isariya Bamrungphet @ EMS 16 April - 6 May, 2024
Mahakit Mahaniranon is a Thai composer-performer who plays piano and modular synthesizer. His multifaceted practice combines performance, composition, improvisation, traditional Thai music and electroacoustic elements into an eclectic, individual musical expression.
Searching for sound incorporating acoustic elements, synthesizer and digital processes, his works reject stylistic boundaries and seek their own identity mixing ambient, minimalism, noise, free improvisation,Thai traditional, contemporary classical music and experimental electronica.
Collaborating with artists in other fields such as Contemporary Dance, Visual Arts, Film, and Poetry inspires him, but the intensity of his work and his creative process has also earned him many opportunities as a solo performer. Various ensembles have included his compositions in their repertoire, and they are being performed continuously.
Photo by Anuwat Nakpawan
Read more: Mahakit Mahaniranon and Isariya Bamrungphet @ EMS 16 April - 6 May, 2024
Basak Günak @ EMS Spring, 2024
Başak Günak is back at EMS. She is a sound artist and composer, also internationally known as AH! KOSMOS
in the field of electronic music.
Her work includes sound art, performance, sound installation, composition for theater & contemporary dance.
She released two LPs from Compost Records & Denovali Records, one collaborative LP and numerous EPs.
Both timeless and otherworldly, Günak’s work unconsciously defies being tied to a genre, tapping
into something beyond an immediate surrounding or experience to communicate something more transcendental. Günak uses polyrhythms, electronic composition and found sounds to build a mystical
world of modulation into which one can sink and be carried away.
In addition to her musical compositions with AH! KOSMOS, Günak pursues her sound experimentations as a sound artist, composing soundscapes for theatre, contemporary dance, film and visual art projects, and realising site-specific performances.
Her works have been featured worldwide in several festivals and institutions, such as Barbican Theatre (UK), Martin-Gropius Bau(DE), Royal Theater Carré (NL),
Sonar Festival (SP), Berlin CTM Festival (DE),
Rotterdamse Schouwburg (NL) and Prague
Quadrennial (CZ).
In 2020, she presented her latest solo sound installation
THE WELL, a piece for 11 speakers and performance in
VKV Museum Istanbul. Recently, she has done composition for Martin-Gropius Bau, Berlin State Museums, Kunstmuseum Basel and granted a residency
in HELLERAU (DE), Gate27 (TR) for her upcoming sound installations.
Photo by Furkan Temir