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Repetition Repeats all other Repetitions and Symphonie Diagonale

This is a recording of the version of my piece for Stefan Östersjö, Repetition Repeats all other Repetitions made for the classic avant garde film Symponie Diagonale by Viking Eggeling. Stefan and I produced this version in early 1997 in a tight collaboration.

This version has been performed by Stefan on numerous occasions in Sweden, UK and USA.

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etherSound - performance at ICMC 2008

This is a performance of my interactive improvisation environment etherSound (read the programme note) at ICMC 2008 in Copenhagen. The performance took place at Huset - a small concert space in the centre of Copenhagen.

The sounds that are a result of received SMS' are easily identified; they have a bell like character in combination with a stuttering speach like sound. The first message arrives 10:15 into the concert. As can be seen on the video a small instruction on how to participate was projected on the wall behind the stage. Unfortunately, an this is my mistake, the instructions were too short. Due to this half of the messages received during the performance were empty and didn't result in any sounds being enerated. However, the messages that did have content have a clear impact on the music (note in particular the message that ends the concert).

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Frendin/Frisk Duo at Panora 2007

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Tu Dai Oan - traditional Vietnamese song gone mad

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The Six Tones

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Hanoi Concert October 2006

This is a video recording of the first performance of my piece The Six Tones written in close collaboration with the two Vietnamese master musicians Than Thuy and Ngo Tra My and the Swedish guitarist Stefan Östersjö for Dan Bau, Dan Tranh, Banjo, e-bow, 10-stringed guitar and computer. The piece is closely related to my solo piece written for Stefan, Repetition Repeats all Other Repetitions. Parts of Repetition... are transcriptions of recordings the first sessions Thuy, My, Stefan and myself had in Malmö in the Spring of 2006.

Two more video clips, one with Stefan and Thuy playing traditional Vietnamese music and one with My playing a contemporary piece by Nguyen Thien Dao, Khoi Truong-Chi, pour monocorde solo can be downloaded here:

Repetition Repeats all other Repetitions

This is the version that Stefan premiered at the opening concert of the MusicAcoustica 2006 festival in Beijing on October 23. This recording however was made in Malmö, in the composition studio at the Malmö Academy of Music. It should be noted that this is only one, and the first, version of this piece. It's a collaborative project between myself and Stefan and it has just started. The next performance will be in Malmö on December 10 at Jeriko.

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Repetition Repeats all other Repetitions
for 10-stringed guitar and computer

Concert at CRMA, Stanford

On April 9 I played a concert together with Per Anders Nilsson at CRMA at Stanford, Palo Alto in California, US. This was the last concert in a series of six concerts that we did together during the spring.

I am playing saxophone and laptop and Per Anders is playing laptop. We are both generating material as well as processing each others outputs. Listen to the full concert either streaming (requires a minimum bandwidth of 128 kbps) through QuickTime or RealOne by downloading the corresponding media file or download the mp3 encoded files. There are six tracks altogether. Depending on your system you may have to force QuickTime to open the SMIL file by right clicking and choosing "open with QuickTime" or similar. Please let me know if you are having trouble playing these files.

Saxophone and computer

In January I did three solo saxophone & laptop concerts in Sweden. The following two track are from the concert at Artisten in Gothenburg on January 13. In these tracks, the only input to the computer except for what I play is a pedal that I use to control start and stop. All other parameters that control the synthesis, sampling, playing and spatialisation are derived from what I play.

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Malmö Saxophone Quartet

The first recording I will make available here is a recording I did a few weeks ago together with soprano and baritone saxophonist Andreas Andersson. We started a duo a while ago which we call MSQ (Malmö Saxophone Quartet). The name obviously doesn't refer to the number of musicians but rather to the fact that, between the two of us, we play soprano, alto, tenor and baritone.
We recorded some standards and some more freely improvised stuff with the ambition to explore the term free in the context of improvisation. Some of the discussions we had leading up to this recording will be reflected in my diary.

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Music download help and legal stuff

You can listen to the music either as streaming audio (if you have the required bandwidth) or you can download the entire file and listen to it off line. The streaming format is SMIL and requires a compatible player such as AmbulantX (open source player available for most platforms), RealOne or QuickTimePlayer. The beauty of the SMIL format is that the file you download contains only references to the actual media files and is therefore very small (usually less than 1KB). As long as I keep the mp3 files on my server you can keep the downloaded .smi file and listen to it whenever you want, or you can email it to a friend without using up valuable bandwidth.

I don't care if you redistribute my music, make copies of it to give away or make use of it in any non-commericial way. However, it is still not legal to redistribute it so it is always at your own risk.