Everything you hear is made with an FM receiver and an FM transmitter connected together in a feedback loop through a mixer. By changing the EQ and disturbing the transmitter I changed the resonant frequencies of the  feedback system, thereby controlling the sound. The transmitter and receiver are working on and around the same frequency as the radio station P1 is broadcasted on in Stockholm (92.4 MHz), and thus intermittent excerpts from the broadcast naturally mixes together with the static. This shifting between the intelligible and unintelligible creates a dissonance that is amplified by the harsh nature of the soundscape. 

The composition was performed live in my living room, and I recorded and included the room ambiance in a final 5.1 mix. I also made a stereo mix-down, which can be heard here on SoundCloud.

The (stereo) piece was premiered at the segment "8-minute bonanza" of Radio Norberg, an FM broadcast that is setup during the Norberg Festival.

Tuning A Radio (stereo)

"Calling out of context" is an interactive piece that I wrote in my first year at the Royal College of Music (2019), and was first performed at that year's edition of the LjudOljud-festival.

The main section consists of different scenes with some aleatoric elements but mostly fixed around some rhythmic and harmonic structure. The audience is given a phone number that they can, at any time, call and which will induce a GSM interference in the speakers, triggering a change of scene. The scenes that follow are chosen randomly.

The piece is spatialized using Ambisonics and discrete loudspeakers. It is written for the 29.4 loudspeaker system Klangkupolen in Lilla Salen at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, where this recording was made using a Neumann KU 100 binaural head.

Calling Out Of Context (binaural)

"Helg i Zürich" translates to English as "weekend in Zürich", which describes the piece quite well: it is a documentation of when I visited a friend in Zürich. The two most prominent layers of the piece — the church bells and the ostinato — are simply field recordings from the city, without much processing or modifications. Other sounds, such as the bird song, were also recorded during the trip, while some sounds are either recorded elsewhere or synthetic.

I wanted to explore using mixed techniques (field recordings with synthetic timbres) to portray both a realistic and emotional documentation of the city. I also used mixed spatialization techniques — Ambisonics (using the ICST Ambisonics Tools) and discrete loudspeaker — to achieve a good resolution of the diffuse and the direct.

"Helg i Zürich" was premiered in Lilla Salen at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm at the 2019 winter-edition of the LjudOljud Festival.

This is a stereo mix-down of the piece.

Helg i Zürich

"Reminiscenser" is, as the title suggests, a composition about memory: inspired by the feeling of remembering and forgetting. The list that I read in the piece - an old inventory of my kitchen pantry - is both useless and meaningful at the same time. The tape hiss - escalating in intensity, as I have re-dubbed the music over and over again - is an accelerated demonstration of the impact of saving on lossy media (remembering). And the piano, being ambiguously nostalgic, becomes increasingly incoherent.

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