New Swedish Electronic Music Tour, 22/12/00

[Jeroen de Boer <usva-th2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Cyberslag presents, in collaboration with
the Beringer Hazewinkel Foundation

_New Swedish Electronic Music
Tour_

Andreas Berthling (Audio/Video)
Mikael Stavöstrand (Audio/Video)
Ronnie Sundin (Audio)
Mokira (Audio)
Susanne Berggren (Dance)

USVA Theatre
Friday, December 22
22:00
Admission: fl. 10,-
reservations: 050-3634670

Groningen, The Netherlands

information:
Jeroen de Boer
usva-th2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


In December a showcasetour of young and promising
Swedish electronic musicians is touring through Europe.
The four above mentioned composers will present live
performances, accompanied with video and other visual
support. One of the reasons to set up this tour is to
internationally present the developments in the very
active Swedish electronica-scene. The evolution of
electronic music is new and is dominated by artists from
the Internet-generation. The ?global network? is of great
importance to Swedish artists, because it provides the
ability to raise the relative geographical isolation.
According to this they exhaustively investigate the
possibilities of digital culture, which has a positive effect
on the electronic arts.

Andreas Berthling
Andreas Berthling, born in Stockholm, Sweden, but is
now living in Trondheim, Norway where he´s currently
studying at the art academy. Last years debut, a cdr only
release ?1000/1001hz? on icrowave recordings, is now
followed by an ABCD (approx. 4î cd) titled îmengerzeile &
grünbergerî  released by Staalplaat as a new record in
the ?materialist series? and is followed by ?därutöver?
released as a cdr on the Chicago based label BOXmedia
later this year. He´s also one of the contributers to the
invalidObject series on fällt publishing. Occasionally he
plays live, such as at the extraSensory event in London,
early april 2000 and lately at schweiz in berlin, end of
june 2000.

?(?) extremely well-designed and packaged CDs with
largely microscopic/microwave/glitch audio?

http://berthling.cjb.net/

Mikael Stavöstrand
Mikael Stavöstrand has been working within the field of
experimental electronic music since the end of the 80´s.
Since 94 has he almost entirely been working with
computers as his instrument/tool, both in the studio and
for his live performances.

The music he produces is unique for it's kind among
composers and artists in Sweden, both in artistically and
musical aspects. He's one of the few young artists in the
field of new ?crossing borderline? computer music. M.
Stavöstrand uses several different influences in his way of
constructing pieces, for example is he very interested in
randomness and the unexpected and to use such
methods in his way of working. He is always searching
and tries out new ways to produce/compose his
compositions both musically and technically.

http://www.it.kth.se/KREV/citizen/mikael

Ronnie Sundin
Ronnie Sundin first got known to the world as bad
kharma when he released the debut CD 'seltin' on his
own label bonbon records in 1998, but has been  working
with electronic music/sound in various shapes during the
last ten years. Fusing together influences from groups like
the Hafler Trio, Illusion of Safety and Merzbow that album
was a wild collage of noise and sound, violent and soft in
a  wild collage. Now working under his own name, he has
a more quiet approach to his sound -making , working
with a Powerbook, MiniDisc, dictaphone and contact-
microphones Sundin is blending fieldrecordings with
passages of abstract electronica and 'concrete' computer
composition; imagine Mego and Bernhard Günther
collaborating over a lo-fi recording of some local ducks
along a river in the north of Sweden?, the sound of
Sundin has been described as 'quite nordic - being distant
but  very close at the same time'....

The first album under his own name was 'dreamsketch'
on  CDR-label Bake Records (Holland) and was an almost
'pure musique concrete' experience, the second album
was the 'lorez plaza/limp' double CD which featured one
disc with low level works using lots of computer-
processed field-recordings and a second one with 22
shorter pieces of improvisations with a number of live-
processing software, and the third CD 'internal reference'
was released during the spring of this year and was a
more conceptual thing presenting stunning concrete
collages made by recordings of the buzzes and hums that
 your average computer produces (clicking hard-drives,
hissing fans etc) - and more. where will he go next?
clearly Sundin is a exciting contribution to the new
generation of young electronic composers from Sweden
and a name to look out for..

Sundin has collaborated live and in the studio with artists
like Merzbow, Z.Karkowski, Hazard, Lasse Marhaug and
Andreas Berthling a o.

 Mokira
? (?) modern sounding electronica charged with
alternative beats, noise and suggestive melodies all tied
up with a broad spectre of influences, techno, ambient,
hiphop, dub etc.?

http://www.raster-noton.de/catalog/cdr036.html

Susanne Berggren
After her dance-education, Susanne Berggren left the
dancescene for a while and instead turned to the
experimental music- and artscene. The last few years she
has mostly been working with movement related
performance and improvisation, presenting her work in
resturants, clubs, musicfestivals galleries and museums.
Sometimes her work is based on the interaction with the
audience and the specific situation in wich the work is
presented, and sometimes the conceptual focus has been
more important in the process of preparation of a piece.
She has also worked with improvisation in collaboration
with different musicians, mostly electronic music, often
creating long-lasting or slow movementscapes in relation
to sound, much inspired by the BMC-work she has done in
Berlin. Interested in going back to the dancestage again,
she is now planning a new piece together with Mikael
Stavöstrand to be presented at the Modern Dance-
Theatre in Stockholm, spring 2001. The piece will be a
audiovisual contemplative journey, in wich they will work
with movement, live electronic music, realtime edited
video and lights.



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Jeroen de Boer
music director Open Electronic Festival/Cyberslag Foundation
Munnekeholm 10, 9711JA Groningen
The Netherlands
tel/fax: +31 (0)503634676/(0)503632209
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