Henrik Frisk: composer, saxophonist, researcher
Hammarby Allé 9, 120 32 Stockholm, Sweden
tel: +46 73 336 8340
e-mail: mail@henrikfrisk.com, web: http://www.henrikfrisk.com

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Personal Details

Date of birth: June 11, 1969
Place of birth: Antibes, France
Citizenship: Swedish

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Merits

Professor of Music, Digital sound art, Royal College of Music in Stockholm

Docent in artistic research in improvisation, Malmö Academy of Music, Lund University

PhD degree in Music (artistic), Malmö Academy of Music, Lund University
Thesis: Improvisation, Computers, and Interaction: Rethinking Human-Computer Interaction Through Music
Advisors: Miller Puckette, Marcel Cobussen, Karsten Fundal & Leif Lönnblad

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Education

HeLP - SUHF:s ledarskapsutbildning

Malmö Academy of Music, Lund University, Composition.

Banff Centre for the Arts, Post graduate course in music composition.

Rhythmic Conservatory, Copenhagen. Saxophone performance major.

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Appointments

The artistic appointments included here are only those that have been more long term such as larger commissions.

Leading the development of a new innovations office for the artistic universities in Stockholm (KMH, Konstfack, The Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm Uniarts)

Chair of the Research board at The Royal Swedish Academy of Music

Pro-vice-chancellor, KMH, Stockholm

Swedish Ethical Review Authority, member of a review board, Stockholm

Acting pro-vice-chancellor, KMH, Stockholm

Visiting scholar, CCRMA, Stanford University

Full professor in music, specialization in digital sound art at department of composition, conducting, and music theory at the Royal College of Music, Stockholm
Teaches composition, supervise PhD candidates and master’s theses.

Head of department of composition, electroacoustic music.
Head of artistic research, music and technology.

Member of the assessment panel for the Swedish Research Council, artistic research

Supervisor and lecturer at NARP, the Norwegian research school for artistic research

Chair of study and research board at Royal College of Music, Stockholm

Assistant professor, Department of Composition and Conducting, Royal College of Music, Stockholm
Main responsibilities: Researcher and electroacoustic music composition teacher

Member of the artistic faculty board Ingesund School of Music, Karlstad University

Associate professor at University of Skövde, Computer game music program.
Main responsibilities: Head of program, teacher in composition and sound design, researcher

Member of the editorial board for Swedish Journal of Music Research

Coordinator for supervisor’s training, Konstnärliga forskarskolan (Artistic research academy), Stockholm
Main responsibilities: Develop research curriculum and supervisor’s training program

Member of the Research board at The Royal Swedish Academy of Music

Research fellow, Department of Composition and Conducting, Royal College of Music, Stockholm
Main responsibilities: Researcher and Ph.D. supervisor.

Associate Professor in artistic research at Malmö Academy of Music, Lund University.
Main responsibilities: Research, supervision and curriculum development

Postdoc researcher at Malmö Academy of Music, Lund University

Affiliate of Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden

Malmö Academy of Music. In charge of the program for Jazz and Improvised Music Main responsibilities: teaching saxophone, ensemble, improvisation, curriculum development and international relations.

Lecturer, Rhythmic Conservatory, Copenhagen.
Teaching responsibilities: theory, composition and big band instruction and conducting.

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Related Professional Experience (in selection)

Music chair for Sound and Music Computing 2023, Stockholm

Member of assessment committee for Swedish Research Council, artistic research

Orgnized international festival/conference on music and technology: Between 2019

Member of the board for NAVET, KMH-KTH-KKH-SKH-Konstfack research collaboration

Researcher in EASTN-DC (European Art, Science and Technology Network - Digital Creativity) which organizes events, workshop and concerts with the general goal of supporting digital creativity in gneral.

Organizer of SMC-Sweden

Curator for an electroacoustic concert series at KMH.

Member of the editorial board for Swedish Journal of Music Research

Co music-chair for SMC 2013, produced three concerts and a total of 30 works for 26 loudspeakers

Various peer review assignments

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Commissions & works (selection since 2010)

Commission Sonic Matter in Zurich, Switzerland

Commission from Nguyen Thanh Thuy, Vietnamese Dan Tranh master: Imaginary associations

The other side of black noise for Dataton 5000

Commission from Chryssie Nanou, american pianist: Method and Ignorance

Nobel week prelude: Electronic imporovisation: Improvisation over Minimonias (Stockholm)

Music for the fisualisation of pianist performing Debussy: Image Schema (Stockholm, Karlsruhe)

EASTN-DC: sound installation for 54 speakers and two concert halls: Locomotion (Stockholm - site specific installation)

The Six Tones commissioned to do music for Trinh T. Minh-ha’s Forgetting Vietnam (Premiered at Cinéma du Réel, Paris)

Audio visual work (Collaboration with A. Elberling): Machinic propositions (Gent (BE), Stockhlm, Vilnius, Lisboa, Manchester, Romans (FR), Malmö (SE))

NCC/Dome of Visions: Audiovisual installation: När träden sover/subtraktion och Ur askan/Unverwüstbarkeit (Stockholm - site specific installation)

IAC: Work for voice, electronics and Dan Tranh: Drinking (Ireland, Belgium, Stockholm, Malmö, London)

Ars Nova: work for video and electronic music: Orpheus in motion (Stockholm - site specific installation)

Work for video and 8 speakers (Collaboration with A. Elberling): Elle a dansè – Il se tourna (Stockholm, Malmö, Hamburg, Hanoi, Vilnius)

Göteborgs Biennalen: music for Better Life by Isaac Julien: Better Life (Gothenburg)

Ensemble Midt Vest: interactive production for chamber group, interactive electronics and video.

Kopasetic, Konstnärsnämnden: work for jazz ensemble and electronics: Månens gråa ögon (Multiple locations in Sweden)

The Trembling Aeroplanes: work for digital chamber group: The Mystic Writing Pad (Malmö)

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Recent artistic works (selection since 2016) (Below, the title is followed by setting and in cases of collaboration, the group name.) See http://www.henrikfrisk.com/portfolio/ for documentation.

  1. Imaginary associations - for Dan Tranh and electronics (commisioned by Nguyen Thanh Thuy)

  2. Method and ignorance - for piano and electronics (commisioned by Chrysie Nanou)

  3. The other side of black noise - for Dataton 3000

  4. Work in progress - for 360 degree projection and surround sound

  5. Rain 2 - for multichannel speaker setup (commisioned by Björn Norberg, Ulvhälls Hallar)

  6. Concinnity - composition for saxopohone, electronics and large speaker configuration

  7. Rain will evaporate - sound installation (commisioned by Björn Norberg, Ulvhälls Hallar)

  8. For Bill, Rising - electroaoustic composition

  9. Image Schema - electroaoustic music and video (commisioned by Johan Fröst)

  10. Drinking - ensemble and electronics (commisioned by Nguyen Thanh Thuy)

  11. Pellow - installation

  12. Improvisation over Mimionimas - electroaoustic composition (commisioned by Eva Bojner Horvitz)

  13. PVM - electroaoustic composition

  14. Locomotion - electroaoustic installation (commisioned by EASTN-DC)

  15. Machinic Propositions - electroaoustic composition and video, Mongrel

  16. Repetition Repeats all other Repetitions - guitar and electronics (commisioned by Stefan östersjö)

  17. Bii - sound installation

  18. Elle a Dansé, Il se Tourna - electroaoustic composition and video, Mongrel

  19. När träden sover/subtraktion och Ur askan/Unverwüstbarkeit Audiovisual installation: collaboration with Ebba Bohlin (commisioned by Björn Norberg, Dome of Visions)

  20. Forgetting Vietnam - Film/The SixTones and Trinh T. Minh-ha (commisioned by Trinh T. Minh-ha)

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Performances (selection since 2016)

  1. The Six Tones at Sonic Matter, Zurich, Switzerland

  2. Solo and group performance with Mattias Risberg, Anna and Eva Lindal at Omnikvariatet, Uppsala.

  3. Dataton performance at Possible Musics, Stockholm.

  4. Dataton performance at Fylkingen, Stockholm.

  5. Imaginary associations premiered in Växjö, Sweden.

  6. Method and ignorance premiered in California, USA

  7. The other side of black noise solo performance at Norberg Festival, Sweden

  8. Rain 2 performance in Helsinki, Finland

  9. Solo performance concert in Vilnius, Lithuania.

  10. Solo performance concert in Tallinn, Estonia.

  11. Solo performance concert at Jazzcandy, Tokyo, Japan.

  12. Dataton performance improvisation with historic Dataton instruments at Orpheus institute, Gent

  13. Dataton performance improvisation with historic Dataton instruments at Frequenz festival, Kiehl

  14. Concinnity, premiered at CCRMA, Stanford University, USA

  15. For Bill, Rising, performed at CCRMA, Stanford University, USA

  16. Elle a Dansé, performed at Transitions, CCRMA, Stanford University, USA

  17. For Bill, Rising, premiered at Innovation in Music, Stockholm, Sweden

  18. Rain will evaporate, sound installation at Ulvhälls Hallar, Strängnäs

  19. Regular networked performances in various consteallations.

  20. Image Schema, performed at Musica Viva 2021, Lisbon, Portugal.

  21. Image Schema, performed at KMH, Stockholm

  22. Drinking, performed by Sonanza, KMH, Stockholm

  23. Image Schema, performed at inSonic, ZKM, Germany

  24. Pellow, installation at Tekniska museet, Stockholm.

  25. Improvisation over Mimionimas, premiered at Pre-Nobel conference, Stockholm

  26. Performance at Fylkingen, Stockholm

  27. Performance at 2020 Joint Conference on AI Music Creativity.

  28. Locomotion premiered at Between2019, Stockholm, Sweden

  29. Performance at Intonal festival, Malmö with Kali Malone.

  30. Performance of Machinic Propositions by Mongrel (Frisk/Elberling) at Music and Sound design in film/new media, Vilnius.

  31. Concerts in Skandinavien och Baltikum with the group expEAR.

  32. Machinic Propositions, Dare 2017, Gent, Belgium, Manchester, UK and Romans, France.

  33. Repetition Repeats all other Repetitions, Artistic Research Pavillion, The Venice Biennale, 2017

  34. Drinking - three versions of Drinkning at IAC, Malmö, Sweden

  35. Bii and Elle a Dansé, concerts at KMH, Stockholm

  36. Bii - Interactive sound installation at the inauguration of KMH, Stockholm

  37. Elle a Dansé, SMC16, Hamburg

  38. In a Silent Way - Concert in Göteborg.

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Recent recordings (selection since 2010)

  1. The Six Tones, TBA, Remixes of Vietnamese popular music, in production

  2. The Six Tones, Vong Co, TBA, in production

  3. expEAR and Drew Gress, Vesper, Kopasetic Prod.

  4. Maggi Olin - Transatlantic Connection, Live,

  5. Hanoi New Music Festival Ensemble 2013, Being Together, Setola di Maiale

  6. lim, Disembodied, Kopasetic Prod.

  7. The Six Tones, Signal in Noise, dB Productions (double CD)

  8. (Re)Thinking Improvisation, artistic explorations, Lund University Press (double CD)

  9. Stefan Ostersjo, Strandlines, dB Productions

  10. lim, lim with Marc Ducret, Kopasetic Prod.

  11. Scandinavian Electroacoustic Music, Spanning, ChamberSound

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Ongoing and recent research projects

Non-verbal communication of invisible information: New methods for communicating complex and inaccessible information through sound

Information Retrieval in Embedded Systems for Audio-visual Artistic Processes: new methods for musical interaction between participants to create a sensation of immersion in merged reality performances in musical performances.

Historically informed design of sound synthesis: exploring old technology to understand future directions (funded by Swedish Research Council).

Musical transformations: interdisciplinary project on the transformation of musical traditions (funded by Wallenberg foundation)

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Recent publications

A full list upon request or on www.henrikfrisk.com/about/publications/