Lisa Fauran is a French student currently pursuing a
masters in sound design and engineering at ENSATT
(L'École Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Techniques
du Théâtre, Lyon).
She is passionate about music and performing arts. She is also developing her personal projects, including musical productions, with the creation of her YouTube channel
- ΛZIL music.
She has had the opportunity to gain experience by taking part and to develop personal projects, such as podcasts, short films, radio creations and more recently recordings
for a baroque music group.
We welcome Lisa as an intern at EMS in August!
https://www.instagram.com/azilmusic/
Kerstin Möller is a multi-disciplinary artist rooted in sound art, audio-visual research, visual arts, installation and expanded choreographic practice based in Berlin /Hannover/Stockholm.
Her practice involves live performance, experimental
composition and long term audio-visual research for film
and stage productions. Being interested in alienation, spatial belonging and the ecological crisis, she creates atmospheric audiovisual spaces synthesizing natural phenomena, beat making, her voice and the practice of prepared piano,
oscillating between sonic poetry and infrastructure blues.
Her work engages with geopolitical, ecological, spatial and
social implications of climate change, spatial violence and
critical feminist theory.
In 2020 she co-founded Embrace Platform, a nomadic arts platform supporting structures of care and awareness around themes of gender equality, LGBTQIA+ and non-binary identities, human rights and how alliances between movements can be built.
During her time in Stockholm, she will be working at EMS periodically.
https://kerstinmoller.myportfolio.com/home
Oskar Tomala - sound artist, composer and multi-instrumentalist based in Copenhagen and Gdańsk. Working in the field of electro-acoustic composition, site specific sound installations and music for motion pictures. Their work focuses on the phenomenology of intensity, ambiguity and possibility as it manifests in the perception of tones, sounds, harmony and other forms of harmonicity. Oskar is interested in how our ways of listening expending our perceptual experience. His current explorations are oriented towards the research for interaction of harmonic sound with architecture space, by performing with site specific multichannel systems, capturing acoustic resonance and measuring space impulses then by merging with the search in timbres of acoustic instruments, sine waves, white noises and sound processing. As a composer, Oskar works extensively with just intonation harmony and composes for both acoustic instruments and sound synthesis.
During his internship at EMS, Oskar will continue his work with research of interaction of tones and noises with a particular interest in exploring juxtaposition of prepared samples with the Buchla system in relation to spatialization in liminal spaces.
Photo by Aleksandra Banás
Assoc. Prof. Dr Cevdet Erek and Assoc. Prof. Yelda Özgen from Istanbul Technical University (MIAM) in Turkey are visting Elektronmusikstudion as part of an exchange project between Elektronmusikstudion and MIAM initiated by the Consulate General of Sweden in Istanbul.
EMS har köpt in en klon av ett Buchla 100-system som har installerats i Studio 3. Den nya synten är byggd av Jon Nensén och är baserad på det system som Donald Buchla byggde till San Francisco Tape Music Center i mitten av 60-talet. Vårt system har testats av Morton Subotnick som anser att den är likvärdig med det ursprungliga systemet vad gäller både ljud och handhavande. Om du är EMS-användare och vill ha en introduktion till den nya synten går det bra att skicka ett mejl till teknik@elektronmusikstudion.se och boka en tid med någon av våra tekniker.
EMS has acquired a clone of a Buchla 100 modular system, which has been installed in Studio 3. The new system has been constructed by Stockholm-based designer Jon Nensén and is based on the modular system Donald Buchla constructed for the San Francisco Tape Music Center in the mid-sixties. Our system has been tested by Morton Subotnick, who considers its performance equal to the original synth in terms of sound and use. If you are already an EMS user and want an introduction to the new system please send an email to teknik@elektronmusikstudion.se to book an appointment with one of our technicians.
EMS welcomes Nils Rougé as an ERASMUS+ intern in June/July.
He is a French sound designer and musician who is currently studying at the Theatre sound department of ENSATT, L'École Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Techniques du Théâtrehe (National School of Theatre Arts and Techniques) in Lyon.
Nils Rougé develops his interest in sound in many ways:
he runs an electronic music project, creates soundtracks for theatre, radio and short films, has studied sound in cinema for two years in a preparatory class, and has played as bassist, guitarist or singer in different bands.
His work mainly focuses on creating nocturnal atmospheres and abstract inscapes by extensively processing synthetic matters, field recordings, or sounds found on the internet.
Photo by Milo Garcia (@milojohnny3000)
In April/May Prof Sylvia Molina is visiting EMS. Since 2001 she has been a professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the UCLM (Cuenca) where she leads the group ‘Fuzzy Gab’ that rescues the Electroacoustic Music Collections of the GME (Legacy of international composers under direction of Gabriel Brnçic) and projects of Human Interfaces and Interactive Installations.
At EMS she will partly work on her own soundwalk project 40 ARK/40 DAYS: “The saved paths will be stitched on each of the sheets. One leaf, one day. A walk, a sound journey. A palimpsest of sounds and narrations that will be built simultaneously between the threads, the writings, the recorded sounds and the interactive ink that will serve as an interface to manage all of this in EMS studio 2: the multichannel studio with sixteen speakers in 360o or dome.
We print the map of the city. We establish the criteria of the thread, of the sound materials, of the narrations and interactions. 40 ARK|40 DAYS is born.
April-May 2022. Author: Sylvia Molina.”
Under december 2021 genomfördes en undersökning som riktade sig till alla som varit verksamma på EMS de senaste åren. Undersökningen gjordes av EMS och Musikverket och syftet var att mäta användarnas åsikter om utbud, service, säkerhet och bemötande för att kunna utveckla EMS verksamhet ytterligare.
Undersökningen är nu avslutad och Musikverket och EMS vill tacka alla som deltog. Svaren på enkäten ger värdefull information om hur användare upplever EMS, och resultatet visar att de allra flesta är mycket nöjda vilket är glädjande. 97 % svarar att man rekommenderar EMS till andra tonsättare, vilket är fint kvitto på verksamheten som bedrivs.
En viktig del i undersökningen var att mäta upplevelsen av likabehandling och trygghet. Här ser vi att svaren i princip uteslutande är positiva, men det är givetvis viktigt för oss att analysera orsaken till de svar som inte är det. Vi ser att önskemål om fortbildning inom olika områden är stor, och en hel del förslag och reflektioner kring våra studios har framförts. Pandemin har naturligtvis påverkat förutsättningarna för alla, främst våra utländska gästtonsättare.
EMS och Musikverket kommer nu att arbeta vidare med att utveckla EMS tekniska, sociala och utbildningsmässiga miljö.
In December 2021, a survey was conducted aimed at those active at EMS in recent years. The survey was conducted by EMS and the Swedish Performing Arts Agency and the purpose was to measure users' opinions about supply, service, safety and treatment in order to be able to further develop EMS' activities.
The survey is now completed and the Swedish Performing Arts Agency and EMS would like to thank everyone who participated. The answers to the survey provide valuable information on how users experience EMS, and the results show that the vast majority are very satisfied, which is gratifying. 97% answer that they would recommend EMS to other composers, which shows great approval of our activities.
An important part of the survey was to measure perceptions of equal treatment and security. Here we see that the answers are in principle exclusively positive, but it is of course important for us to analyze the reason for the answers that are not. We see that there is a great demand for further educational courses in various areas, and a lot of suggestions and reflections about the studios have been made. The pandemic has, of course, affected conditions for everyone, especially our foreign guest composers.
EMS and the Swedish Performing Arts Agency will now continue to work on developing EMS' technical, social and educational environment.
We welcome Giuseppe Pisano as an intern at EMS!
Giuseppe Pisano (b. 1991, Napoli) is an Italian composer of electroacoustic music, field recordist and independent researcher.
His work is broadly concerned with the investigation of space as a compositional tool, using field recording and extensive processing techniques aimed at emphasizing metaphorical elements of sounds and extracting anecdotes that underline poetic and synesthetic references to his personal experience.
His formal education includes studies of electroacoustic music composition and music technology in Italy, the Netherlands and Norway, especially in Oslo he focused his attention on immersive audio and spatialization techniques with Prof. Natasha Barrett.
At EMS he is aiming at acquiring a deeper knowledge of sound synthesis to include it in his workflow to a broader extent.
https://www.giuseppepisano.com/
Photo by Elena Zottola
Composer Won-Woo Lee graduated from the department of Composition at Kyung Hee University and is currently studying Music Technology at the Korea National University of Arts. He is focusing on using technology to derive human values and possibilities.
Photo by Hyun-Woo Lee @boiledpic
Julian Edwardes (UK/NL ‘79) is a trained visual artist with a background in Fine Art; he studied at AKV St Joost in Breda and at the Sandberg Institute Amsterdam.
Read more: Willem Twee: Julian Edwardes @ EMS 29 November - 5 December, 2021
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