gränsen (in progress)
Mohamed A. Gawad
Adham Hafez
“You tell me a tale, and I will listen. The story is yours to voice, but it dies the moment it slips your lips. I will adore it, and I will betray it. Your language,
my language, and between the two a path of ravishment. Always in-between is the boundary, always the demarcation between your body and mine;
your language and me; your mouth and my ear; your hello and my good bye.”
Recently Swedish artist Hanna Wildow invited a group of Egyptian and Swedish multilingual practitioners, all working to some degree within and with their
own mother tongues; to enter a relation of some kind with her. Being drawn to interspaces within language, where words reach their own limitations,
Wildow’s invitation was one concerned with the act of translation. When not speaking each other's mother tongues; when language itself performs the very border of comprehension, what kind of disparate translations of each other’s work can we generate? Can we allow for our works to go errant, get lost, die,
and be reborn in an one another’s mouths? Can something utterly other be set in motion in a gap of hybridized languages?
The six artists are gathering to collectively construct a realm of trans-boundary practices; geographical movements as well as genre-crossing art works.
Together, in a week-long residency in EMS Stockholm this November followed by a second residency in Cairo in February 2018, they inquire about borders and boundaries, what these mean across languages, practises, artforms and geographies. As unknown outcomes, interdisciplinary presentations will take place in Stockholm and in Cairo.
gränsen is co-produced by Sarah El Miniawy, a Stockholm based music manager from Cairo, and made possible through the support of The Swedish Arts Grants Committee (Konstnärsnämnden) for Hanna Wildow.
Francesco Perissi is a sound designer, multi-instrumentalist and sound engineer. He learnt the secrets and potential of musical instruments and audio software working for years at a specialized shop. After numerous concerts as a guitarist and 3 albums recording with post-metal band "Qube", Francesco Perissi chose to get inside the digital audio world.
He graduated in electronic music at the Conservatory L. Cherubini in Florence, where he wrote compositions performed by the New Music Ensemble of New York and used for soundtracks and performances by local artists. During his studies he started collaborating with Research Center Tempo Reale in Florence and worked as an audio engineer for numerous festivals and concerts of electronic and contemporary music. He is currently studying Sound Design Master Program in Conservatory G.B Martini in Bologna.
In 2014 he started his solo project "XO" where the electric guitar creates ambient textures that come together in rhythmic and filtering of electronic nature, and in 2016 the project “X6”, where the guitar is spatialized in 6.1 loudspeakers thanks to exaphonic pick-up. Francesco Perissi currently focuses its research on the possibilities of technological development and expressive of musical instruments and is active as a composer and teacher of audio software.
Francesco Perissi has been working and recording at EMS in 2018, while being an ERASMUS student at the Swedish Royal College of Musik (KMH ) in the Electroacoustic Music Composition and Music Media and Technology department.
Photo by: Mario Carovani
Info and contacts:
https://www.facebook.com/francescoperissiXO/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/francesco-perissi-214aa24a
Ragnhild May's (DK) works are centered around the relationship between body and instrument. Musical instruments can be seen as extensions of the body, and her works explores their structures, systems and cultural connotations as well as acoustic qualities.
Ragnhild May has been artist in residency at International Studio and Curatorial Program, she has studied at visual arts at The Jutland Art Academy (DK) and Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (AT) and composition at Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts Bard College. 
Photo credit: Phoebe D'heurle
An AIR-programme grant from Nordic Culture Point
has made it possible to invite Ragnhild to work at EMS.
Her music is an exploration between the fields of synthesis and beat-making off the time grid. She follows a free-form sonic flux of sharp sounds, where the atmospheres convey distorted impressions.
She has been working and recording at EMS during 2017, while she attended the Electroacustic Music composition course
at the Royal College of Music (Kungliga Musikhögskolan, KMH).
https://irenecassarinimusic.wordpress.com/ https://soundcloud.com/guenterraler
Stephen McEvoy (recording under the name tuuun) is an Irish artist working with sound. His work, which draws upon techno, noise and rave, is a playful investigation of the potentialities of minimalism and improvisation. He is interested in the social possibilities that music offers, both in dealing with traumatic past histories, and in presenting new Utopian ways forward.
During his time in Stockholm, he will be working at EMS periodically.
Based in Copenhagen Kristian Emdal works under several monikers performing world wide, his output being audible as well as visual. Visiting EMS Kristian Emdal will be collaborating with Loke Rahbek, continuing a series of electronic/physical dialogues across multiple genres and media with audio as a main focus. Besides the collaboration with Loke Rahbek, Kristian is currently working on sound for the screening of a silent film as well as working on a release as part of techno duo Age Coin.
An AIR-programme grant from Nordic Culture Point has made it possible for EMS to invite Kristian to work at EMS.
We are happy to see Lars back at EMS!
Lars Lundehave Hansen has been working in the fields of ambient/drones and noise for the past 16 years - as a soundartist, enthusiastic promotor of and dedicated performer in these fields. The usual works of Lars L. Hansen are often constructions, making a point of being constructions, that emit or react to sounds or noise. In an attempt to explore the relations between timbre / room and action / reaction the works often revolve around controlled randomness, manipulation, expectation, suspended animation as musical criteria and sound as a physical entity.
Photo: Sofie Amalie Klougart
Read more: AIR Lars Lundehave Hansen back at EMS 23 Nov - 22 Dec!
We are happy to see Kiwa back at EMS for the last part of his residency!
KIWA (as sound artist Kiwanoid, born 1975) – multidisciplinary artist, lives and works in Tartu and Tallinn. Studied in Estonian Academy of Arts and Tartu University.
He actively explores and blends different media, from conceptual objects to total audiovisual environments. His artistic practices include painting, objects and installation, video, performance, sound art, scenography, text, etc: all together functioning as a hypertextual research of meaning-making and cultural codes on different levels, collective and personal myths.
Photo: Terje Toomistu
Read more: Artist in Residence Kiwa is back @ EMS 11 Nov - 11 Dec!
EMS welcomes Loke Rahbek! Loke is an artist and musician based in Copenhagen, Denmark. An AIR-programme grant from Nordic Culture Point has made it possible for EMS to invite him to work at EMS.
Photo: Jonas Bang
An AIR-programme grant from Nordic Culture Point has made it possible for EMS to invite Fredrikke to work at EMS in 2014.
This is the last part of her residency, and we will miss her!
Frederikke Hoffmeier (1989) is a Copenhagen based music composer. Best known for releasing and performing under the name Puce Mary, she has made a name for herself within fields of modern industrial and experimental noise music. Despite a still rather young project, the discography is vast with releases on labels like Posh Isolation, Freak Animal and Ideal Recordings and it portrays her work methods to be many and diverse, from sound art pieces, minimal synth compositions to straight forward industrial music. During 2014 she has performed throughout Europe, Russia and America.
EMS welcomes Hafdis back for the last part of her residency!
Hafdís Bjarnadóttir (b. 1977, Reykjavik) graduated in jazz guitar performance from the FÍH School of Music in Iceland in 2002. She earned a bachelor’s degree in contemporary composition from the Iceland Academy of the Arts in 2007, followed by a master’s degree from the Royal Danish Academy of Music in 2009.
We are happy to see Lars back at EMS for a second residency this year!
Lars Lundehave Hansen has been working in the fields of ambient/drones and noise for the past 16 years - as a soundartist, enthusiastic promotor of and dedicated performer in these fields. The usual works of Lars L. Hansen are often constructions, making a point of being constructions, that emit or react to sounds or noise. In an attempt to explore the relations between timbre / room and action / reaction the works often revolve around controlled randomness, manipulation, expectation, suspended animation as musical criteria and sound as a physical entity.
Photo: Sofie Amalie Klougart
Read more: AIR Lars Lundehave Hansen back at EMS 22 Sept - 20 Oct!
Tommi Keränen has been an active practitioner of experimental electronic music since the late 1990’s. He is playing live electronics and computer with custom software. Over the years he has performed and recorded as a solo artist, as a member in a number of bands (Testicle Hazard, Gentle Evil, Köttskogen), and participated in various ad hoc situations. His discography consists of two dozen plus releases ranging from underground tapes to critically acclaimed releases such as "Bats in the Attic" CD that was among critic’s choices in The Wire in 2010. He has performed widely around the world, and collaborated with artists such as Incapacitants, Lasse Marhaug, Phill Niblock, Florian Hecker, and others.
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