This piece is a granular synthesis processing of a flute recording from the Uttervik forest on the east coast of Sweden.

Uttervik

This live recorded eurorack piece is created from a flute improvisation loaded in a QU-Bit nebulae buffer combined with a voice like electronic texture from the Moog Mother-32 and granular delay algorithm of the Erica Synth Pico DSP and beat.

This piece is also available via YouTube
https://youtu.be/oGb-zqEO8IE

Photograph by Hannes Häfele

Voice

This is the ambient version of Voice. The piece is created from a flute improvisation loaded in a QU-Bit nebulae buffer combined with a voice like electronic texture from the Moog Mother-32 and granular delay algorithm of the Erica Synth Pico DSP. The plucking sound is produced with the frequency modulation (FM) model of the Mutable Instruments Plaits module.

There is a companion video on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/jeLe4VvXlns

Ambient Voice

This is a tiny experiment with the integration of eurorack, flute and digital audio workstation. The flute was recorded in the forest bringing the background texture sound of birds and the wind.

The picture was taken by Hannes Häfele.

Dusk

This is the first movement of four in From the Bottom of a Well (Från botten av en brunn) based on Haruki Murakami's novel Kafka on the Shore. The the sounds were designed from, and the music was written from a grounded theory analysis of the book. The piece was performed on the 16th of December 2021 by Robert Ek, clarinet; Kevin Kirs Verstege, cello; and Rikard Vilhelm Lindell, eurorack at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. Photography by Hannes Häfele.

Robert Ek's portfolio: https://www.remusik.se/
Hannes Häfele's portfolio: http://luminea.eu/

Nakata

Young Miss Saeki (Unga fröken Saeki)is the second movement of four in From the Bottom of a Well (Från botten av en brunn) based on Haruki Murakami's novel Kafka on the Shore. The the sounds were designed from, and the music was written from a grounded theory analysis of the book. The piece was performed and recorded on the 16th of December 2021 by Robert Ek, clarinet; Kevin Kirs Verstege, cello; and Rikard Vilhelm Lindell, eurorack at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. Photography by Hannes Häfele.

Robert Ek's portfolio: www.remusik.se/
Hannes Häfele's portfolio: luminea.eu/

Unga fröken Saeki / Young Miss Saeki

I, Kafka Tamura (Jag, Kafka Tamura) is the third movement of four in From the Bottom of a Well (Från botten av en brunn) based on Haruki Murakami's novel Kafka on the Shore. The the sounds were designed from, and the music was written from a grounded theory analysis of the book. The piece was performed and recorded on the 16th of December 2021 by Robert Ek, clarinet; Kevin Kirs Verstege, cello; and Rikard Vilhelm Lindell, eurorack at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. Photography by Hannes Häfele.

Robert Ek's portfolio: www.remusik.se/
Hannes Häfele's portfolio: luminea.eu/

Jag, Kafka Tamura / I, Kafka Tamura

The Dying Miss Saeki (Den döende fröken Saeki) is the fourth and last movement in From the Bottom of a Well (Från botten av en brunn) based on Haruki Murakami's novel Kafka on the Shore. The the sounds were designed from, and the music was written from a grounded theory analysis of the book. The piece was performed and recorded on the 16th of December 2021 by Robert Ek, clarinet; Kevin Kirs Verstege, cello; and Rikard Vilhelm Lindell, eurorack at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. Photography by Hannes Häfele.

Robert Ek's portfolio: www.remusik.se/
Hannes Häfele's portfolio: luminea.eu/

Den döende fröken Saeki / The Dying Miss Saeki

This track was initially inspired by the tranquillity of the sea on a summer night but the horrors throughout the world do not rest. Beware and be cautious because the First Wave will come On The First Monday Of The Month.

This is my first track utilising the Moog Mother-32. I used it for everything but the choirs, kick and sea samples. 

The Photograph of the Baltic sea is of course taken by Hannes Häfele

The First Wave On The First Monday Of The Month

This was the result after my second studio session with the Buchla system at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. It felt nice to make a piece of sub-culture in the corridors of high culture.

Buchla EDM Étude

This piece is based on a flute improvisation recorded in the forest over a phrygian scale arpeggio created with a small Eurorack modular system and choir samples.

Forest Flute Improvisation In Phrygian Mode

This is Variation 1 Etude of the piece Poietic – the Becoming

Poietic Variation 1 Etude

This is Variation 2 Etude of the piece Poietic – the Becoming

Poietic Variation 2 Etude

This is Variation 3 Etude of the piece Poietic – the Becoming

Poietic Variation 3 Etude

This is the first etude for a forthcoming project based on Hariku Murakami's work. It is also an etude for the Mutable Instruments Grids module. The piece is a live eurorack performance.

Grids Etude pour Umibe No Kafuka

This music was created for the opening of Mälardalen Industrial Technology Centre. The piece constitutes concrete sounds from an electronics printer and an industrial robot. A choir hails the wonders of technology. Bass and beats is performed live using a Eurorack system.

iMoY MITC

This music is the second track created for the opening of Mälardalen Industrial Technology Centre. The piece constitutes concrete sounds from an electronics printer and an industrial robot. A choir hails the wonders of technology. Bass and beats is performed live using a Eurorack system.

PrsNt MITC

Practicing live performance with a four voice eurorack system.

Dunkel

The GLADE is an interactive post-digital sound and light installation that explores our relation to the forest. In the Nordic folklore, the forest is home to supernatural creatures. In today's post-Christian Sweden the forest is a spiritual space. However, the Swedish forest is cultivated, where there is a monoculture of the same species and age that is harvested industrially with hostile clearings.

http://rikardvilhelmlindell.se/glade.html

Gläntan / The Glade

Gläntan  / The Glade

This is a live performance recording of my rehearsal with a four voice eurorack system. This etude focus on using only one sequence for three voices, and to use only the Mutable Instruments Grids module in euclidian mode to make all the rhythmic patterns.

Here is the layout for the Eurorack system: https://www.modulargrid.net/e/racks/view/817153

Monoton

This is the first recording whit the cellist Ebba Brostöm for the first piece – I, Kafka Tamura – of my ongoing work with Hariku Mulakami's Kafka on the Shore.

I, Kafka Tamura – First Rehersal

Creating a dialog between the grand piano and eurorack system.

Dialog

The is a recording of live performance practicing with eurorack. The grid sequencer affords idiomatic rhythm patterns. Event though the rhythm is varied with euclidian patterns, I could not escape the cantus firmus of my electronic music.

Cantus Firmus

This short ambient piece is based on the arpeggio of Cantus Firmus combined with a field recording from watering the garden.
https://soundcloud.com/rikardlindell/cantus-firmus

Cantus Firmus Postiludium In Horto

I almost ran out of patch cables for this eurorack patch. I created the piece around a arpeggio cords using Mutable Instruments Plaits wave-folder model texturised using Clouds and percussion using the Plaits filtered noise model though the Veils VCA.

Saturation

This piece is made from an evolving ostinato where an euclidian pattern is emphasising notes like amplified waves, stars or … stoff.

Photograph by Hannes Häfele

Stoff Overture

This piece is made from an evolving ostinato where euclidian patterns drive the drums, percussion, and is emphasising notes like amplified waves, stars or … stoff. The piece was performed in one take, all the mistakes and mishaps remain in the files ones and zeros. I hope you enjoy listening.

Video of the of the recording is available here:
https://youtu.be/ZNQbAM2jYgk

Photograph by Hannes Häfele

Stoff

In Memory of the Forest is an interactive web exhibition where you as a visitor can take part in testimonies from people who still remember old-growth forests rich in mushrooms, animals and plants. The project is produced by #LINDUO - the artist duo Anna Berglind and Rikard Vilhelm Lindell, in collaboration with Skinnskatteberg municipality and Region Västmanland Sweden. The exhibition moves in an extinct landscape, a forest that is rapidly being replaced by forest plantations where biodiversity is a thing of the past. A virtual, digital room with sound and image, in which the visitors move by weighing and tilting the phone in their hand instead of using their index finger.

This piece is an excerpt from the acoustic exploration of the In Memory of the Forest exhibition.

https://tillminneavskogen.se

Photograph by Thilda Berglind Mörlid & Mira Berglind

Till minne av skogen / In Memory of the Forest

In this étude I rehearse how to use Mutable Instrument Stages as LFO and envelope. I also only use the Moog Mother-32 as sound source and sequencer, white noise as source for snare and percussion and LFO in audio rate for the kick, via Mutable Instrument Veils.

Stages Étude

This track is me practicing eurorack performance using the Beatstep Pro as the major sequencer and keyboard. Étude Béat, meaning a blissful study. The Beatstep Pro design promotes dance oriented music and its built in probability appears to use heuristics typical for the genre. In a way, the sequencer has its inherent cantus firmus.

The track is mastered by Fredrik Uppsäll.

A video of the performance is available here:
https://youtu.be/HjkaytmaX5g

Étude Béat

Rikard Vilhelm Lindell is an electroacoustic composer from the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm, a code artisan, interaction designer, and a university associate professor in computer science.

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Read more about Rikard's project the portfolio web site at http://rikardvilhelmlindell.se

Rikard Vilhelm Lindell has previously collaborated with Johan Andersson https://soundcloud.com/zoo-brazil and Johan Emmoth https://soundcloud.com/sloganswithouttexts under the name Laid and The Kelly Project, B.J. Nielsen http://bjnilsen.com/ and he was also a founding member of the electronic group Statemachine http://statemachine.com/

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