Composed at EMS 2013. (centre for electroacoustic music and sound-art in Stockholm)Trumpet and electronics.

who speaks and who makes noise?

LINEAGE - Rottrådar
Lineage – rottrådar is a production and performance by KAI-EN Butoh Company to which I composed an electroacoustic score that melted together with folklore improvisations by violin player Sandra Marteleur. 

Live sound documentation from Fylkingen January 2021
Recordings and mix Alexandra Nilsson

KAI-EN concept, choreography, dance, costume, space
Alexandra Nilsson composition
Sandra Marteleur improvisation, violin,viola
Maria Ros light design

Lineage 
A network of roots and mycelium, entangled in symbiotic exchange. Bodily transmission as the qualitative, deepened process. To be the host animal to that which must live, to offer our fur as a reserve for a wilderness to flourish.

LINEAGE - Rottrådar

Stone Breath is a collaboration between the composer and musician Alexandra Nilsson, artist and film maker Björn Ola Lind and butoh dancer and choreographer KAI-EN, departing from the material stone and places along the Northwestern coast of the island Öland in the Baltic Sea.

All the music is composed of sand and limestone, acoustic and processed. The films were shot at locations along the coast of northern Öland.

KAI-EN – Choreography, dance, costume and space
Björn Ola Lind – Film, photo and space
Alexandra Nilsson – Musical composition and live performance, stone formations

Stone Breath Live at Fylkingen

Stone Breath Part4

Stone Breath Part3

Stone Breath Part2

Stone Breath Part1

FOSSIL
Lime stone and sandstone and electronics 
Recorded October 2022 @Fylkingen by John Chantler
mixed by Alexandra Nilsson

FOSSIL is a project based on stone where I research the material both acoustically, performatively and sculpturally, together with an interest of stones in an ecological, geological and cultural context. I perform with stones as a solo artist and I have also composed the suite ‘Öländsk Svit’  for limestone and sandstone for the renowned Swedish percussion ensemble HIDDEN MOTHER.

FOSSIL - Live 2022

FOSSIL Part3

FOSSIL Part2

FOSSIL Part1

FOSSIL - Interactive Sound Installation samples. 
Exhibited at the Museum of Öland 2023.
Composed by recordings of limestone rocks, plates and gravel, donated from Naturstenskompaniet, northern Öland, Sweden. 
Only acoustic sounds, no filters.

Station 3

FOSSIL - Interactive Sound Installation samples. 
Exhibited at the Museum of Öland 2023.
Composed by recordings of limestone rocks from Torp / Byxelkrok, northern Öland, Sweden. Only acoustic sounds, no filters.

Station 2

FOSSIL - Interactive Sound Installation samples. 
Exhibited at the Museum of Öland 2023.
Composed by recordings of limestone rocks from Byrum, northern Öland, Sweden. Only acoustic sounds, no filters.

Station 1

Harmon

Canon for Mimer
Trumpet and electronis.
Composed for and performed at Mimerlaven @Norbergfestival 2017.

www.alexandranilsson.com

Canon for Mimer

Trumpet and live-electronics
Composed at EMS January 2018

Storm dance

Slate and Electronics.
Recorded and Mixed at Elektronmusikstudion, EMS, Stockholm 2019

Les Pyrenées

Alexandra Nilsson / Solovkina is a composer, musician and soundartist based in Stockholm, Sweden.

Her work stretches across acoustic and electroacoustic music, sound art, noise and performative practices. Lyrical as well as brutal, minimalist and maximalist, her art extends the most subtle expressions to the harsh and fierce. She searches for organic transformations and the transcendence of the material. With a background in jazz and folklore, energy movement and rhythm are also important aspects of her practice.

In 2010 she received a Masters Degree in composition at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. Her Master focused on music for film and she is continuously interested in interactions between sound and image and narrative aspects.

She has composed for chamber ensembles and orchestra, as well as for theatre, dance and film, and she collaborates on a regular basis with visual artists and musicians/performers internationally with performances in Sweden, Norway, Germany, France, Iceland, Japan, Russia and Brazil.


Collaborations:
SISTERLOOPS - performative sound art and noise duo with stage artist Marie Gavois
https://sisterloops.wordpress.com
SHAPES OF SOUNDS - audiovisual duo with visual artist Jenny Soep
http://www.shapesofsounds.com/
RADIO TWO - electroacoustic duo with trumpeter and improviser Susana Santos Silva
http://radio-two.tumblr.com 


http://www.alexandranilsson.com

Alexandra Nilsson

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