In Oct 2007 English artists Eileen Simpson & Ben White made recordings of mechanical music boxes at the music museum in Stockholm. This material I (and others) used to make short compositions and loops featured on the free CD "Clips, Blips & Loops". "Dream Boxes Cracked Open" was my contribution to this CD.

I and Mathias Josefsson also performed on the venue "Who Makes and Owns Your Work" on Saturday 17th November at Årsta Folkets Hus, using other music boxes material...

More info:
http://www.openmusicarchive.org/projects/index.php?title=WMAOYW

Dream Boxes Cracked Open

This is one of the live-versions I made of "Hideout". I performed it live together with dancers in the Almedal Library in Visby, Hide Quarry and at Teater Lederman in Stockholm in 2007.

Hideout vers. C

"Flesh And Synthetics" by Diskrepant

From the album EX MACHINA LIBERTAS
Label: Fractured Spaces Records 
Catalog#: FS0408CD
Format: CD, Album 
Country: UK
Released: 2009

Composed and recorded by P. Åhlund in the [i] Lab
& Studio 3, EMS, 2007/2008.

Tracks: 
1. Post Homo Habilis, 7.31 min.
2. Uncanny Valley, 18.17 min.
3. Flesh And Synthetics, 11.42 min. 
4. Partenogenesis, 9.40 min.
5. Ex Machina Libertas, 6.19 min.

Flesh And Synthetics

Not a Trace

Composed by Liam Morrissey & Per Åhlund
Produced by Per Åhlund

Unmastered, work in progress.

Not a Trace

Clips fromThe Wooden Body, with collaborators from the United Kingdom, U.S., New Zealand and Sweden.

The Wooden Body is a cooperative project between string players Matt Howden (Sieben), Jo Quail, Katt Hernandez, Liam Morrissey, and producer and experimental musician Per Åhlund.

Using recordings from these four excellent string players, Per Åhlund has created an album that blurs the borders of wooden acoustic and voltaic sounds.

Each track features one of the musicians on Cello or Violin, and are filtered through software and effects to create four rather diverse soundscapes. All of which flow through melancholy, sadness and- at times- desperation, but also tranquillity, calm and hope.

1. Without A Trace
(Liam Morrissey/Per Åhlund)

2. Lower Us Down
(Jo Quail/Per Åhlund)

3. The Scavengers
(Katt Hernandez/Per Åhlund)

4. From Afar
(Matt Howden/Per Åhlund)

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www.perahund.se
www.matthowden.com
www.joquail.co.uk
www.katthernandez.com

Wooden Body Promo-Clip - From Afar

Wooden Body Promo-Clip - The Scavengers

Wooden Body Promo-Clip - Lower Us Down

Wooden Body Promo-Clip - Without A Trace

Octabass: Vilhelm Bromander, Elsa Bergman, Per Åhlund.
Live at Fylkingen 160423, excerpts...

Photo by Heiko Purnhagen.

Octabass Live Fylkingen 160423-2

Octabass Live Fylkingen 160423-1

Maieutik
Sound installation
Allingås, Sweden, 2010

Installed in an old cinema in Alingsås.
The sound was played through four speakers in a hallway leading to one of the cinemas.
It was also played in the sound system in the cinema itself wich was very sparsly lit.

Film here:
www.perahlund.se


Maieutik

Sounds for a sound installation at Wonderland, in the tenderloin, San Francisco, USA, 2009

The sounds were recorded at various locations in the Tenderloin, San Francisco.
Processed, looped and re-processed at studio 3, EMS, Stockholm.

Wonderlandsound 3

Wonderlandsound 4

Per Åhlund resides in Stockholm, Sweden where he’s involved in several experimental music-, improvisation- and sound art-projects. His soundscapes blur the boundaries between noise and music, stillness and hysteria, darkness and light.
With contact microphones, gadgets, loops and effects he forms abstract sound environments created in the moment. The live performances are often based on old radios, voice, found objects and vibrations used as instruments creating compositions on the verge of dissolving. Focusing on mood and texture rather than tonality and rhythm...

Per Åhlund

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