lim

lim is a collective trio playing improvised, meta physical, music with a beat. The trio has been together since 1997 and as a group lim has always worked long and hard on the music in order to achieve the utmost level of spontaneity within the sometimes complex structures.

Their first cd, lim, was released on the Swedish label dB Productions in 2002 and is a studio production in which the recording studio is treated as an instrument in its own respect. Their second album, Superlim, which was released on Kopasetic Productions in 2006 has a more relaxed live feel to it and is quite different from the first one. The music is still to a large extent focused on rhythmical aspects, but the sound of the group is less dense then it was on their first CD.

lim also has an ongoing collaboration with French guitar wizard Marc Ducret. The collaboration began with a performance during KOPAfestival 2006 and part of that concert is also available on the live recording KOPAlectric, released on Kopasetic Productions in 2007.

lim is also on MySpace!

An excerpt of the track “Gettin' Tage” from “KOPAlectric” is available at the Kopasetic Productions' [MySpace page] and following are excerpts from “superlim”

Some files to download:

Some scores to download:

Posted: 2004-08-20, updated: 2010-03-18

etherSound

etherSound is an interactive sound installation that invites its audience to participate in the creative process by sending SMS. The text messages received by the system will generate sound objects and depending on how and what was written the density of these objects will vary.

etherSound was commissioned by Miya Yoshida and was first performed at Malmö Konstmuseum in Malmö, Sweden in August, 2003.

Listen and read more about etherSound on the site dedicated to it.

Posted: 2004-08-20, updated: 2005-03-05

Henrik Frisk's Ooko

Ooko is the word for ear in Nadsat which is the argot spoken by the teenagers in A Clockwork Orange. The music of the trio flows out of principles such as self-organisation and improvisation, the meanings of which are of paramount importance to the group. Freedom is therefore an important aspect, also the idea of exploring that which is commonly thought to be non-free, and the smallest components of sounds become the most important ingredients. Katrine Amsler excursions in the territories of sound are as fascinating as are Michala Østergaard-Nielsen's drumming. The music is composed by me, and the ambition with this trio is to resist unity and embrace multiplicity by not disregarding any aspects of my musical past and present. In the resulting cacophony we can only trust our ooko.

Listen to Ooko here and look here for some videos.

Posted: 2009-12-21, updated: 2010-06-18

Frendin/Frisk

Together with the Swedish violist Henrik Frendin, I perform contemporary composed and improvised music. We work extensively with real time electronics. We have performed in Sweden, Iceland, Germany, Denmark and USA. Henrik Frendin plays Viola, Viola d'amore and his custom built Electric Viola Grande - a five string electric viola. Depending on the program, I play Saxophones and LapTop.

Here are some musical examples.

  • Drive, one of my compositions. A video from the recording of Viola con Forza
  • This is a concert recording from Fasching, Stockholm, where we played with Danish drummer Lars Juul. At this concert Frendin played piano and keyboards, as well as viola.
Download our technical rider here.

Posted: 2006-01-10, updated: 2006-01-10

The Six Tones

The collaboration started in the spring of 2006 with the main ambition to create a foundation for a meeting between two different musical cultures on equal terms. An other ambition has been to reach beyond merely a superimposition of elements and strive for a more coherent and experimentally oriented sound. From this point of departure Henrik Frisk has composed a trio for Dan Tranh, Dan Bau, banjo, e-bow, 10-stringed guitar and electronics. Frisk’s new work for 10-stringed guitar (Repetition Repeats all other Repetitions), also part of the program, uses a transcription of a first, aleatoric version of the trio as its material.

Watch our October 2006 concert in Hanoi here.

Download press release for spring 2007 tour: [pdf]

Posted: 2006-10-14, updated: 2007-01-04

Frisk/Müntzing/Sandell/Östersjö - Dialogues with Viking Eggeling’s Symphonie Diagonale.

Viking Eggeling, the mythological icon of Swedish experimental film, is in focus for this project. The idea with the production — an expanded version of the tour that Östersjö and Frisk made in the US and England in Winter 2007 —is to allow the viewers to make their own picture of the creative process leading up to the different versions. The audience is provided with manifold views of Eggeling’s only remaining work, the abstract film Symphonie Diagonale (1924).

In the proposed program, the film is first screened in its original form, without music. In the version that Sandell and Müntzing worked out for the Connect festival in Malmö/Lund 2007 the film enters as a third voice into an improvisation. Henrik Frisk’s Repetition Repeats All Other Repetitions (2006-08) is music for 10-stringed guitar and electronics. In the first half of the program the piece is performed in its independent form and in the second half a version is played in which the work has been structured according to the formal elements of the film. The version adapted for Symphonie Diagonale was made in collaboration between Östersjö and Frisk. The show ends with improvisation in classical silent-movie style: true Mickey-mousing in the ensemble’s Hommage á Viking Eggeling!

Download more information, biographies and contact details below:

Listen to (and watch) the version of Repetition Repeats All Other Repetitions for Symphonie Diagonale here.

Posted: 2008-02-08, updated: 2008-02-08

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