ensemble neo celebrated 17 years at the forefront for contemporary chamber music in 2023. The internationally acclaimed ensemble has since the start aimed to be a distinctive voice on the Swedish contemporary music scene. Today the ensemble is the only one of its kind in Sweden, being charged with promoting contemporary art music on a national basis. ensemble neo continuously commissions new works and collaborates with both younger and more established composers, nationally as well as internationally and has premiered over 400 works. ensemble neo performs contemporary music at the highest international level, in a manner which is both exciting and which reaches out to newcomers as well as to experienced listeners. The ensemble has quickly become an essential force in Swedish music life, always stirring and challenging.

Kersley is a Berlin and northern Sweden based artist. After a decade of learning, living and working in the UK, Icland and Sweden Kersley settled in Berlin.   Electronica, Avant - Indie - Pop, Ambient and Field Recordings based music and sound art.

Robert Ek has, as a clarinetist, specialised in contemporary music as a chamber musician and soloist. With great curiosity and dedication, he works together with composers to develop the repertoire for his instrument. He has recorded around 20 records and premiered a large number of works as soloist and chamber musician.

Since 2007 he is a member of the acclaimed ensemble Norrbotten NEO, the country's only ensemble with a national mission to work with contemporary music. Norrbotten NEO premieres a number of works by Swedish and international composers every year. In 2012, the ensemble received fst’s. interpretation award for their work with contemporary music.

Robert has performed and collaborated with musicians, composers and conductors from different parts of the world. He likes to work in the border country between arts and has worked closely not only with composers but also with writers, choreographers and filmmakers. Robert has toured Europe, North America, Asia and Australia and played at festivals such as Warsaw autumn, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, June in Buffalo, Faithful (Berlin), ISCM world music days in Stockholm and Tallinn, Musica Viva (Lisbon), Beijing Contemporary Music Festival.

In recent years, his work on developing the repertoire has focused on live electronics and developing the clarinet as an augmented instrument. Robert is also a PhD candidate at LTU since 2019. At the core of this doctoral project lies the iterative process where new electro-acoustic instrumental systems are designed and then used and tested in collaborative processes and in artistic practice. This oscillation is well described by Per Anders Nilsson (2011) as “design time” and “play time”. Where “design time deals with conception, representation, and articulation of ideas and knowledge outside time ... and play time deals with embodied knowledge, bodily activity, and interaction in real time” (Nilsson, 2011). Adding to this framework is the reflective process of observing and analysing how the systems behave and interact with the performer. Performing with these systems requires a close relationship and intimate understanding of the system and the relationship between body and technology. This embodied knowledge that artistic research strives for is a felt knowledge.

Composer, pianist, blues harmonica blower, occasional conductor. Member of Ars Nova Ensemble Malmö and Hertzbreakerz. Composition studies in Malmö, Bologna, Graz. Stage works, orchestral, chamber pieces, solos. 

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Vicki Hallett is a composer, versatile musician, sound artist, music practitioner and educator. Vicki has composed, produced and performed in live concerts, solo recordings and videos ranging from chamber music to exploratory work with sound art, pain- management meditations, the Elephant Listening Project and acoustic ecology. Through her unique approach of combining acoustic ecology, scientific analysis and innovative performance practices, Vicki reshapes the role of interdisciplinary research. Vicki's compositional process is constantly evolving and explores the space between hearing music as a cultural experience and the aural vibration within the being. The ongoing quest for sonic immersion and creative compositional devices with authenticity and inspiration leads both Vicki and the listener through an organic landscape of sound.

Composer, improviser, pianist, electronic musician, and researcher.

Professor of Interaction Design, specialized in live electronics performance technologies and computer-aided creativity, Head of Interaction Design and Software Engineering division, University of Gothenburg and Chalmers Univ. of Technology, Sweden.
Lecturer in electronic music composition, Academy of Music and Drama, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Guest Professor in Art & Technology at Aalborg University, Denmark.

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Chiara Percivati is a clarinettist, performer, and sound researcher. Her artistic and research work focuses on exploring, questioning, and expanding the symbiotic relationship between performer and instrument. Whether through material hacking or digital augmentation, her practice unfolds as a continuous process of designing, making, and becoming with a multitude of clarinet variants.

She conducts research in clarinet preparation and augmentation as a PhD candidate at the Orpheus Institute and the University of Antwerp. She works as a researcher at the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp, where she is currently developing a project on digitally driven approaches to clarinet and bass clarinet preparation.

She has performed across Europe and North America as a regular guest of new music collectives such as Ensemble Modern, Schallfeld Ensemble, mdi ensemble, and Ensemble for New Music Tallinn.

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