Bergmark playing the Finger Violin. Photo © by Greg Locke, St. John's Newfoundland.

JOHANNES BERGMARK This is a continually updated archive page (cv) about me as a musician and other activities. Introduction Improvised music with amplified objects and instrument inventions. I play free improvisation solo and in groups, with a number of unique musical objects and instruments. My main instrument at present is amplified objects using the Platforms system, the musical saw, Micro Moog, occasionally also the piano, a number of small instruments, objects, original inventions and my voice.

Playing the Stringed Stirrups. Photo © by Gudrun Edel-Rösnes.

Musical Performances, such as The Stringed Stirrups and The Singing Coffin. In the Stringed Stirrups, two piano wires are attached to the ceiling, and at the lower end in a pair of horses' stirrups, in which I stand, hanging in the air with the resonator on my chest. The Singing Coffin is a box in body length with me inside. Some strings are strung over the lid. Through a little hole, I sing and the voice changes the tones of the strings.

The Singing Coffin with me. Photo © by Jan Liljekvist.

• Duo with Tippi Tillvind, formerly under the names Najo Team or Always Ask Your Wife, an unlimited duo of music, performance, film, sound, visuals and other activities since '04.
• Duo since '97 with Martin Klapper (cz/dk) (toys, amplified objects, tapes, theremin etc). A wild and fast sound-exploring duo which is very visual.
• Fågelpingis since '01 with Tomas Halling (voice, percussion, trombone, activity) and Jacob Ullberger (banjo, voice). An improvising group exploring improvised humor and cabaret.
• JoHaHa since '10 with Fredrik Hagstedt and Tomas Halling.
• Erotic Boulders since '05 with Mitchell Brown, analog electronics; Damian Bisciglia, amplified found and modified objects, electronics; Joseph Hammer, real-time tape loops, electronics. An electronic / amplified objects improvised musique concrète ambient noise group based in Los Angeles. In '09 expanded with guests Kio Griffith, Tippi Tillvind and Bobby Loachfillet.
• Smullotron since '02 with Lise-Lotte Norelius and Sören Runolf, all playing live electronics, sound recordings and amplified objects. A composers' collective.
• Think Pink since '04, duo with butoh choreographer SU-EN.
• SLIP since '03, quartet with Jaap Blonk, voice (nl), Mats Gustafsson, reeds, amplified obejcts, electronics (se) and Lou Mallozzi, turntables, feedback, objects, electronics (us). Premiered on Fylkingen Jibbolii festival. Photos on Sonoloco.
• Duet since '87 with Hal Rammel, saw, inventions and electronics (Wisconsin) since '87. Performances in Chicago (ILL), Madison (WI) and St John's (NF, ca). Intercontinental duo with my first great source of inspiration for surrealist instrument design and saw playing.
• Elektroarmén with Johan Söderling, Bo Valpeters, Daniel Älgå and Sören Runolf, all playing electronics.
• Hunger since '97 with Bendik Hagerup, violin, cello, piano (no) and Risto Holopainen, prepared piano, keyboards, Hawaii guitar (se/no).
• Fretlessarméén with Terje Mentyjærvi (no) and Harald Beckstrøm (no) since '94, all of which have invented instruments and sound sculptures.
• Acrobatic Music with Terje Mentyjærvi (no): physically involving instruments and slapstick musical comedy. Collaborations with theatre group Stella Polaris (no) and Jaga Jazzist (no).
• Children's theatre group Eventyrteatret since '95, led by Ingrid Brudevoll (no) and directed by Ida Frederiksen (no), three productions on many tours based on different fairy tales. I was acting, composing etc. in all of them.
• Cloudchamber since '98 with Martin Küchen (saxophones, fujara, percussion, radios) and Sören Runolf (electric guitar, cello, electronics). An improvising group working with collective layers of sound qualities. CD on Fylkingen Records.

1977

Child extra as an actor in Margareta Garpe's Häxorna - Bränn dem!, Klarateatern, Stockholm.

1986

Première as an improvisor w a solo improvisation (voice, piano, acting/movement) at Kafé 44, Stockholm.

1987

W Hal Rammel, Gina Litherland and Russell Thorne, the Emergency theatre (Occult Bookstore), Chicago (ILL).

1990

W Hal Rammel, Michael Zerang, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Ken Vandermark, John Corbett and Terri Kapsalis at the Lunar Cabaret, and Hal Rammel and Gene Coleman at Southend Musicworks Chicago (ILL). W Hal Rammel, Steve Nelson-Rainey at The Space, Madison (WI).

1993

At “Terre Interieure” French Surrealist Group Exhibition, at Gallery The Looking-Glass, Paris w Alexandre Pierrepont, Daniel Vasseaux and Bertrand Schmitt.

1995

Czech and Slovak Surrealist Group Exhibition in Semily, cz.
Autunnale, Bergen, no.
London Musicians' Collective-festival Against the Grain, London.

1996

Sound Symposium, St John's, NF can, duo w Hal Rammel, solo, collaborations w Paul Dutton, Art Pratten, Tom Hamilton, Sainkho Namtchylak a.o.
Knitting Factory, New York, solo and w Hans Tammen.
Workshop and concert, Birmingham Improv 96 AL, USA, collaborations w Jesse Frasier, Clifford McPeek, Glenn Engstrand, Craig Hultgren, Trish McCarl, Dorah Rosen, Gino Robair.
Colourscape Music Festival, London.

1997

Organizer and performances at Oslo Impro w Jindřich Biskup, Jens Bugge Wesseltoft, Bendik Hagerup, Risto Holopainen, Martin Klapper, Martin Küchen, Mats Lindström, Paul Lovens, Sören Runolf, Fred Van Hove, Christian Werner.

1998

Momentum Nordic Contemporary Art Festival, Moss, no (12 performances in 4 projects).
Elektronmusikfestivalen, Skinnskatteberg.
Nursery Injection, m/s Stubnitz from Rostock in Stockholm.
Copenhagen International Experimental Festival Cief #5 organized by Skræp.
Arvikafestivalen.
Till Tibet från Omberg, organized by Heda Culture Path Association.
Organizer and performances at Eventa 4 Antivernissage Material Music - Nature's Consciousness, Ekeby Qvarn Artspace, Uppsala.
Kerava Youth Prison, fi (workshop and concert).
Telakka Theatre, Tampere, fi.
Ung Nordisk Musikk festival Oslo (lecture and concert).
Tampere Jazz Happening, fi.

1999

Fylkingens Improvisationsdagar (concerts and seminar).
Meeting performance series, Stockholm.
The Free Music XXVI festival, organized by WIM vzw, Antwerpen, BE.
Mutation I organized by The Nursery, at Kulturhuset, Stockholm.
Sounds -99 organized by FRIM and Blue Tower Records, at Fylkingen, Stockholm.

2000

Vårflod -00 organized by FRIM at Fylkingen.
7 + 1 at Teaterhuset Avantgarden, Trondheim (N) -00.
Colourscape Music Festival, Liverpool.
Motståndsfestivalen E. Burman, Riddarhyttan.
Stardust festival by Fylkingen and Modern Museum.
Logos, Gent, be.
O da Guarda festival, pt.
Dodorama (nowadays WORM), Rotterdam.
Extrapool, Nijmegen, nl.
Kraakgeluiden, Amsterdam.
Workshop, composing and performing at Musikkflekken, Sandvika, and Blå, Oslo, w Jon Halvor Bjørnseth and Renate Alsing of Drivhuset.
"Wired", University of East Anglia, Norwich, uk.
Ljusfest, Fylkingen.
Elektroniska Dagar, Fylkingen.

2001

Backstage, PerformanceJam.
Exit International Festival for Unusual Live Performances, Helsinki.
"Ändamålet Helgar Medlen" at Smålands Nation, Lund.
Minnesföreställning för Ilmar Laaban, Fylkingen.
Solo and w Fågelpingis at Vårflod '01 organized by FRIM.
Tre Koreografer, Kulturhuset (music for "Zqne" by Favela Vera Ortiz).
PolarEkonsert, Rålambshovsparken.
Arvikafestivalen.
Colourscape Music Festival, York.
Skeppsholmsfesten.
Konstkaravanen, 36 places in Uppland, organized by SU-EN.
K3 Malmö Högskola workshop and performance w Herman Müntzing
Lava, Kulturhuset/Splintermind
Fylkingen / Evil Nurse / Bult Magasin
"Nærmest Uplugget", Klubb Kanin, Trondheim.
Sleeping Bag Concert, Fylkingen.
Performance of my reconstruction of “Rendez-vous” by Theodore E. Libér (alias Knut Wiggen) - Karl-Erik Welin's famous chain saw concert from 1964 at Ljusfesten, Fylkingen.

2002

"NU!", a collaboration w the dance group På Egna Ben and Stefan Lakatos, Fylkingen.
Primavera en La Habana, IX Festival Internacional de Musica Electroacustica, cuba.
Showen som gud aldrig bad om, Fylkingen.
Ilskans Rätt - Ett göteborgsjubileum, Fylkingen.
Solo and w Fågelpingis at Ljud och oljud på Jazzfestivalen (FRIM).
Arvikafestivalen.
¡Virvar/rivrav! international festival, København.
Norbergfestivalen.
Tour financed by Framtidens Kultur and organized by SEAMS together w Guds Söner to Sverigefinska Folkhögskolan in Haparanda, Lunnevads Folkhögskola in Linköping, Örebro Konsthall and Fylkingen '02-'03.
Solo artist at Ny Musikk, Stavanger, no.
Elsvets at Fylkingen.

2003

"NU!", a collaboration w the dance group På Egna Ben and Stefan Lakatos, Fylkingen.
Sleeping Bag Concert, Fylkingen.
Stockholm Art Fair.
Malmö mot rasism.
Högriskfestivalen, Malmö.
24 kvadrat, Göteborg.
Athens, Greece: MikroMousikoTheatro/SmallMusicTheatre (improv club 2:13).
Experimental cabaret Sätesbjudning at Hagateatern, Göteborg.
Trädgårdsföreningen, Linköping.
Musica Genera (photos here), Szczecin.
Inländer Raus!, Ausland-Berlin.
Ljud & Oljud, FRIM-festival.
Norbergfestivalen.
Interfraction, dance performance at Skulpturens Hus.
Aalborg, DK, Kulturnatten at Studenterhuset.
Nutida Musikdagar i Halmstad, Kulturverket.
.k N O W H E R E. project w dance and film in Berlin w Rolf Meesters/VLK M (NL) & Pat Hillaire (fr/es).
Fylkingen Jibbolii festival.
Cloudchamber & Rullbandspelarloopensemblen, Fylkingen.

2004

"NU!", a collaboration w the dance group På Egna Ben and Lise-Lotte Norelius, Fylkingen.
Sleeping Bag Concert, Fylkingen.
Centrum sztuki współczesnej zamek ujazdowski (Centre for Contemporary Art), Warszawa.
Okno theatre festival at Teatr Kana, Szczecin, pl.
Tour w Fågelpingis & Hugh Metcalfe, se/dk.
Birmingham Improv (AL, usa), duo w Martin Klapper, collaborations w Ut Gret.
Eyedrum, Atlanta, GA, usa.
Ruby Green Contemporary Arts Center (VKMusic), Nashville, TN, usa.
Högriskdagen, Malmö.
IAPAO 2nd conference and festival, Bandung, indonesia.
Hällristningens Dag - Dansarens Natt, organized by Dance Group Transparente Blanche, Simrishamn.
Art Camp organized by Blue Sun Art Studio & Center, in collaboration w Soil Society, a Swedish-Mongolian Cultural Organization, mongolia.
Hide Sound Art, Hide Kulturbrott, Gotland, solo and w Smullotron.
ISEA2004 - Östersjön, duo w Sören Runolf.
Performance Art in NRW, Scandinavia Performance Artists - 2nd part, Maschinenhaus Essen in Zeche Carl, Essen (de) (ASA-European / E.P.I. Zentrum).
66 Minutes Sculptures, Moderna Dansteatern, Stockholm.
Tour w Eventyrteatret (no).

2005

"NU!", a collaboration w the dance group På Egna Ben and Lise-Lotte Norelius, Skulpturens Hus.
Künstlerhaus Dortmund (MeX Dortmund), de.
Cuba-Cultur, Münster, de.
Okno theatre festival at Teatr Kana, Szczecin, pl.
International MaterialNoiseParadancePerformance Theatre at Teatr Kana, Szczecin, pl w Stuart Lynch paradance, redFrik (alias Fredrik Olofsson) noise and visuals, Pär Thörn performance
West Coast Tour, usa, including:
Open Gate Concert Series at Eagle Rock Cultural Community Center, Los Angeles, CA;
21 Grand Gallery and performance space and ImprovGarage, Oakland, CA;
Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA;
Gallery 1412 and On the House, Seattle, WA;
TLC Alberta, Portland, OR w Kathleen Keogh, Janice McKearchen, Doug Theriault, Freed Apes w Genevive December;
and The Eleventh Annual Olympia Festival of Experimental Musics, Olympia, WA.
Klubb Kanin: Sommer 2005 festival, Trondheim, NO; 5 performances and leading Trondheim Improvisasjonsensemble in workshop and performance.
Festival Artistów Ulicy (Festival of Street Artists) organized by Teatr Kana, Szczecin, pl.
Performance in Colourdome in Carlisle, england.
NAJO Team at Alytus Biennial 1, International festival of experimental art, BEWARE! POLITICS!, Alytus, lithuania.
Colourscape Music Festival, London.
Se Min Kjole!, Karstein Solli Productions, part of the Glitterbird - art for the very young project, coorganized by Dansens Hus, performances part of Ultima Contemporary Music Festival, at Stenersenmuseet, Oslo.
NAJO Team, short film at π Private Impact festival in Świnoujście, Szczecin and Berlin.
Se Min Kjole!, Karstein Solli Productions, tour in Hungary: Kolibri Színház, Budapest; Gárdonyi Géza Színház, Eger; Vaskakas Bábszínház, Győr; Ciróka Bábszínház, Kecskemét.

2006

"NU!", a collaboration w the dance group På Egna Ben and Lise-Lotte Norelius, Fylkingen.
Se Min Kjole!, Karstein Solli Productions, performances at Kolbotn Kulturhus and Deichmanske Bibliotek, Oslo, and Asker Kulturhus, produced by Dansens Hus '06 - '07.
Performance premiere w NAJO Team at The 13th congress for Performance, Sacramento, CA, co-produced by gallery SoToDo, Sol Collective and Bridge to Art, performed at California Stage.
Performance w Exotic Boulders at Cafe Metropole, Los Angeles, CA.
Performance premiere w NAJO Team at PT3, Midway Studios Cafe Space, Boston, MA.
Nordic Music Days in Iceland.
Glitterbird - art for the very young conference in Paris, performances w Se Min Kjole!, Karstein Solli Productions, at Théatre Dunois.

2007

"NU!", a collaboration w the dance group På Egna Ben and Lise-Lotte Norelius, Fylkingen.
Se Min Kjole!, Karstein Solli Productions, Santarcangelo International Festival of the Arts, in Rimini, it.
Dansens Hus in cooperation w Ultima Festival, Oslo, same as above.
Mini Midi Maxi, Vestlandske Teatersenter, DNS, Bergen, same as above.

2008

"NU!", a collaboration w the dance group På Egna Ben, Stefan Lakatos and Lise-Lotte Norelius, Fylkingen.
NAJO Team at ∏ Performance Intermedia Festival organized by Officyna in Szczecin, pl.
NAJO Team at Apart Festival by Platform4 in Aalborg, dk.
NAJO Team at 24kvadrat, Göteborg.
Solo (NAJO Team was scheduled but had to cancel) on Fylkingen's 75 years' anniversary.

2009

"NU!", a collaboration w the dance group På Egna Ben and Stefan Lakatos, Fylkingen.
Concert at Fylkingen shared w Fågelpingis and NAJO Team.
Concert "Audio_Entropia 007 | Mak Nite" at Galeria Entropia, Wroclaw, pl w Herman Müntzing and Tippi Tillvind.
International Noise Conference Euro Tour w Tippi Tillvind at Fylkingen.
"24 timmars improvisation" at Fylkingen coorganized w Tippi Tillvind. (participants: Jörgen Adolfsson, Sten-Olof Hellström, Daniel Karlsson, Sven Larsson, Jonatan Liljedahl, Jair-Rohm Parker-Wells, Ann Rosén, Sören Runolf, Jacob Ullberger, Cecilia Wennerström, Per Åhlund)
Concert at K-Salon, Berlin w Tippi Tillvind.
Öppet hus in ateljéhuset wip:sthlm, Stockholm, performance w Tippi Tillvind.
California tour: concerts at
California Stage, on The 16th SoToDo Congress of Performance Art, Sacramento, CA, w Tippi Tillvind.
Echo Curio (Echo Park, Los Angeles), w Erotic Boulders, Kio Griffith and Tippi Tillvind.
Club Dingaling at Hyperion Tavern (Silver Lake, Los Angeles), w Mitchell Brown, Kio Griffith and Tippi Tillvind.
The Kids are Alright hosted by Professor Cantaloupe w a bunch of kids and adult passers-by; and Glossolalia hosted by Glossolalia , w Damian Bisciglia and Mitchell Brown on KXLU 88.9 fm in Los Angeles and live stream.
Garden of Memory in Chapel of the Chimes, Oakland, CA w Gino Robair, Tom Duff and Polly Moller (w, among many other musicians and dancers, Phil Gelb appearing spontaneously w us).
Composers Decomposed series at Heco's Palace, Oakland, CA w Tippi Tillvind, Mitchell Brown, Bobby Loachfillet
Tom's, Berkeley, CA w Tippi Tillvind
Cafe mode presents: Earthworks 04: Catch, curated by Kio Griffith, opening at Shojin, Los Angeles, CA w Damian Bisciglia and Matt Piper.
Participation in the Networking Camp w concert on Norberg Festival; also a spontaneous collaboration w Kenneth Cosimo and Anders Eliasson at Teatermaskinen's New Stage (Sjörövartältet).
Grönt Ljud i Hågelbyparken (Ny Musik Stockholm).
Stråk & Ström in Fylkingen's bar w Jörgen Adolfsson, Sten-Olof Hellström, Emma Nordlund, Ann Rosén, Peter Schuback
Innebandybaby, Göteborg, w Fågelpingis.
Ljudkonst i Nolhaga Park, Kulturföreningen Tornet, Alingsås.
Core of the Coalman at Fylkingen w Jorge Boehringer/Core of the Coalman, Johan Arrias, Andreas Backer and Lily Bigestans.
Fossekonsert as part of Elvelangs, Oslo w Maja S. K. Ratkje, Jon Halvor Bjørnseth and video by Trine V. Kolstad
“A Play-off, Battle, Friendly Match, Let´s Get Sporty – elektronisk ljudmiljö och konsert” at Fylkingen, w Luc Kerléo, Tippi Tillvind.
Månefisken w students at Sagene Skole, as part of Kraft og Kobling co-organized by Drivhuset, Oslo.
... followed up by Kraftkonsert ved fossen w Unni Løvlid and Jon Halvor Bjørnseth and video projection by Trine Vegem Kolstad at Hønse-Lovisas hus, Oslo.
[sic!] concert series w Tippi Tillvind, Risto Holopainen, Alexander Rishaug and Agnes Hvizdalek at Soria Moria, Oslo.
Aforism 2 w Quarto Physical Theater: director/concept/producer/performer Leandro Zappala, performer/producer/costume Anna af Sillén de Mesquita, cultural sociologist Lars-Göran Karlsson, dance critic Cecilia Olsson at Teater Giljotin.
Performing Ann Rosén's piece w Sten-Olof Hellström and Danjel Röhr at Fylkingen.
Hornorkesteret at Fylkingen; Always Ask Your Wife curating the forgotten polish electroacoustic composer Ignacy Szczur.
Always Ask Your Wife in “Anfang - en kväll med konst och böcker för att markera ett nytt kapitel i boklådans historia!” in ateljéhuset wip:sthlm och Kulturbutik/Konsten, Stockholm, w Luc Kerléo. Pictures on the WIP Facebook page.
Fylkingen, Always Ask Your Wife, and Luc Kerléo in the small festival Ljusfest.

2010

New Music Incubator at Västerås Konserthus, Lilla Salen w Networking Camp participants.
At Spazio Arka, Assemini (Cagliari), Sardinia w Tippi Tillvind.
Interactive concert for children w Anders Erkéus at Kulturcentrum, Hallonbergens Centrum, Sundbyberg.
Solo live from home via internet on Salon Bruit Radio at Radio Funk Welle (transmission from Berlin).
At a party w Eva Marklund, WIP, Stockholm w Tippi Tillvind.
At Fylkingen w Johan Nystrom, Henrik Olsson, Sören Runolf, Tippi Tillvind.
At Push, IDKA international festival, Gävle, w Tippi Tillvind.
Lecture/concert at TedX Botkyrka, Subtopia (Liveblog.).
Vattenkrig (water war) on Arty Fartyg at Styrbord Babord, Göteborg, w composer & poet Fredrik Hagstedt.
Vattenkrig (water war) on Källan at Kinna Teater, w composer & poet Fredrik Hagstedt, Katarina Widell and photographer Gert Olsson.
“Ett skepp kommer lastat med solidaritet, konst, musik och poesi för Ship to Gaza” at Fylkingen w Fylkingen Big Band, arranged by Teater Tribunalen, Fylkingen and Tegen 2, a solidarity evening for Ship to Gaza.
Lecture + concert, first planned for “Salong röda rummet”, moved to Fylkingen in solidarity w union blockade against Berns Salonger.
Hej då COMA!, solo in protest festival at Växjö Konsthall in support of the closed-down COMA.
Tour w Mubil, the Electro-Acoustic Van to Gerlesborgsskolan for Bottna kulturfestival: workshop for children; performance w artists' cooperations: Anders Dahl sound artist, Lena Kimming dancer, Alexandra Wingate dancer.
Participated in Träskfest w the Singing Coffin at Fylkingen.
Participated in Sommarlov at Fylkingen w Jörgen Adolfsson, Niklas Barnö, Pierre Borel, Joel Grip, Katt Hernandez, Lise-Lotte Norelius, Sören Runolf, Benjamin Thigpen, Camille Thigpen, Tippi Tillvind and Lisa Ullén..
W Syntkretsen/Syntjuntan workshop performance at Norberg Festival.
Musician for performance at Su-En's Open House at Haglund Skola.
Tour w Mubil, the Electro-Acoustic Van to:
- Göteborg: Pecha-Kucha, Park Lane; workshop, at Sockerbruket 26 (discovery w contact microphones); Bältespännarparken, performance in Kulturkalaset through Geiger
- Svenljunga Kalvfestivalen in collaboration w Studieförbundet Vuxenskolan, Sjuhärad, artist's cooperation: Gunilla Boije af Gennäs; performance at Svenljunga square
- Kalv, the school yard, artist's cooperation: Gunilla Boije af Gennäs and Örjan Hill.
- Malmö: Ars Nova in cooperation w Teatr Weimar, workshop (discovery w contact microphones); installation Mubil Concrete.; the yard at Radiohuset; Objets Sonores. concert w Mattias Rodrick, Stefan Östersjö, Jacob Riis, Teatr Weimar; Concrete Mubil Poetry. sound installation + Aftonsånger (Evening songs): Bengt-Emil Johnson in memoriam, performance w Mubil and Leif Holmstrand, Teatr Weimar.
- Ystad Art Museum: workshop; performance at St Knuts torg, artist's cooperations: Martin Küchen, Madelene Oldeman, Gunnel Pettersson, Amit Sen
- Helsjöns Folkhögskola, FENIX, an international youth project under Leader Sjuhärad.: Two workshops, performance in the evening by the participants.
- Stockholm: Fylkingen, performance, Fylkingen's parking lot, member's cooperation: Joakim Roséen.
Rød Pavillon, Jomfru Ane Parken, Aalborg, denmark, w Tippi Tillvind, organized by Christian Skjødt (Kulturnatten)
Skanu Mezs festival, Riga, latvia, Exchange w Fylkingen.
Tonspråk Luleå, conference about aesthetic learning processes, w Anders Erkéus
Kulturnatt Nya Perspektiv, w Tippi Tillvind, Västerås Konstmuseum
Open instrument building workshop, Kulturcentrum, Hallonbergen centrum, w Anders Erkéus and Fabian Kempe
JoHaHa (w Fredrik Hagstedt and Tomas Halling): Källan at Kinna Teater and Café Skrädderiet
JoHaHa at Kulturnatta, Stadsbiblioteket in Göteborg
JoHaHa at Konstmuseet Göteborg
Tonspråk Gävle, concert and workshops w Anders Erkéus
Workshop: discovering w contact microphones, Fylkingen
Inspirationsdag för lärare, rektorer och kulturombud, Kulturhuset, Stockholm
Adachi Tomomi (jp), w Tippi Tillvind, Fylkingen
Thollem McDonas + Borders Ensemble, Fylkingen
Ljusfest, Fylkingen, duo w Katt Hernandez
filmkväll med livemusik, Fylkingen

2011

Several workshops and open concerts at three kindergartens in Vi som växer, Stockholm
Interview for the radio program P2 Ström by Hanna Kihlander, w Tippi Tillvind
Saw player in the song Mitt hjärta glöder för Björn Söder by Fredrik Olsson and Annika Lantz, for the radio program Sist med det senaste i P4
Det Stora Blå, Carema Care, Solna, workshop in instrument building w contact microphones
Fylkingen, Gino Robair + guests, w Tippi Tillvind and Lisa Ullén.
I, Norton, an Opera in Real Time, by Gino Robair, w Ira Anufrieva, Joanna Bodzek, Ewert Ekros, Anders Erkéus, Per Gärdin, Lisa Hansson, Katt Hernandez, Bure Holmbäck, Anna Lord, Robin McGinley, Iwo Myrin, Anne Pajunen, Öykü Peksel, Gino Robair, Joakim Roséen, Josef Söreke, Tippi Tillvind, Thommy Wahlström, Pär Wedin, Daniel Älgå; at Fylkingen
International Improvised Saturday at Fylkingen w Johan Arrias, Sten-Olof Hellström, Katt Hernandez, Ståle Liavik-Solberg, Lise-Lotte Norelius, Hanna Olivegren Wessblad, Gino Robair, Tippi Tillvind, Lisa Ullén
Yikim/Destruction 2011! – surrealist exhibition w international contributions, Istanbul, turkey., organized by SET; performances w Tippi Tillvind & Mattias Forshage at the exhibition venue, “afterparty” at Peyote and Gram Kadiköy, participation in a forum discussion at Depo, film screening at Ye?ilçam Sinemas w Fish Soup, collective exhibition section of the Surrealist Group in Stockholm; Facebook event; flickr set.
Releaseparty at Hemliga Trädgården by the Surrealist Group in Stockholm and Sphinx Bokförlag, collaborations w Jonas Enander (reading Amos Tutuola), Mattias Forshage and Tippi Tillvind.
Knot Gallery, Athens, greece, concert w Tippi Tillvind
Surrealist Survival Kits, organized by the Surrealist Group in Athens w contributions from the Surrealist Group in Stockholm and Surrealist London Action Group at Nosotros. A.o. things, concert w the slide show “Helvetesmaskinen” that the Surrealist Group in Stockholm developed collectively, and poetry reading by Mattias Forshage, Merl Fluin, Yannis Golfinopoulos and Paul Cowdell. Facebook-event.
W. Martin Klapper at Mayhem København, denmark. Facebook-event.
Live online at (( LAB Sounds )) session Le Placard HEADPHONES Festival
Collaboration w David Bremer and Lise-Lotte Norelius at Fylkingen.
VEMS årliga sommarkonsert, Långholmen
T för 2 (Alice på Brunkebergstorg), performance w Pelle Sacklén, Stora miniscenen, Stockholms Kulturfestival/Dansens Hus 20 years anniversary.
Das Unheimliche – Höstfest at Hemliga Trädgården, Midsommarkransen w Tippi Tillvind and Katt Hernandez.
Participation w Tippi Tillvind and many others in DAMTP congress, Alytus, lithuania.
"Ljudletning/Noise search" at No Budget Performance, a Stockholm Odyssey, part of Parabola Artfilmfest, Tensta centrum + foyer Tensta Träff.
Syntjuntans Dag, Kulturhuset in Stockholm, w Lise-Lotte Norelius, Kristine Scholz and Syntkretsen (Bure Holmbäck, Katarina Eriksson, Susanne Skog)
Core of the Coalman + guests at Fylkingen w Katt Hernandez, Robin McGinley, Iwo Myrin, Sören Runolf, Tippi Tillvind
Private party at Amorinasalen, bibliotekshuset, Sollentuna centrum.
Return of Fågelpingis, at Fylkingen.
W Lars Bröndum, Lisa Ullén, Ivo Nilsson, Sten-Olof Hellström, at Fylkingen.
6 Festiwal Muzyki Improwizowanej Ad Libitum + 5 Festiwal Improwizacji Tanca Sic!, open 2 day workshop: “Experimental instrument building and creative sound research” w Denis Kolokol & Piotr Kurek; lecture: Fylkingen and the avant-garde situation in scandinavia; performance concert at Laboratorium, Centre For Contemporary Art (Centrum Sztuki Wspólczesnej – Zamek Ujazdowski), Warszawa.
Detektiven och syndafallet – på spaning efter den uratmosfär som flytt, exhibition by John Andersson & Niklas Nenzén at Larry's Corner, Stockholm. Performance as the John Andersson character Tallkottmannen.
I AM – Independent Art Music, at Mölnbo Folkets Hus, w Tippi Tillvind.
Festival Vindöga 11, Sandvikens konsthall och Folkbibliotek, premiére of Vedbodens fossila livsormar, based on text by Gösta Kriland.
Analogisk afton, festival by VEMS, premiére of “Manuell manipulation av akustisk feedback för tekannor, bunkar, hinkar och andra förpackningar” at Fylkingen.
VEMS “Bollplank”, playing the 8-channel version of “Ilskan som lyfter stenen” in Studio 2, EMS.
Mellomello w Tippi Tillvind, arr. Frakture, Liverpool, uk.
The Royal Park, Leeds w Tippi Tillvind, arr. Leeds Surrealist Group.
Colour Out Of Space festival w Tippi Tillvind, Old Market, Brighton.
RÖSTA PÅ FYLKINGEN - liten festival kring rösten (small voice festival), coorganized w Per Åhlund & Girilal Baars, including i'd m thfft able, Katt Hernandez, David Bremer, Marie Selander, Lily Bigestans, Tippi Tillvind.
Ljusfest at Fylkingen w the premiere of “Upp stiga vi mot ljuset” (We Rise Towards The Light), acrobatic performance w musicians Sören Runolf, Lise-Lotte Norelius, Robin McGinley, Katt Hernandez and the assistance of Johan Lindvall, Sybrig Dokter, Joakim Roséen; FB-event. Also other collaborations w Lise-Lotte Norelius, Ingrid Olterman, Per Sacklén, Agnes Mercedes Einerstam Karis.

2012

ΦÖΡΒΙΡPΙΝΓ at Fylkingen w Marinos Koutsomichalis and Robin McGinley.

The Kaleidochord and the Veloncell Marcel were at the Fylkingen exhibition Lydbilleder V or (Sound as Art as Sound) at Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde, dk, '99.
The Kaleidochord at the "Rainbow Realm" exhibit in the Liverpool Museum, Feb - May '00.
The Singing Coffin was presented on Andlig Upprustning, the show of The Surrealist Group in Stockholm at Fylkingen, '00 and exhibited/performed on many occasions after.
The Kaleidochord was exhibited at "Fabulous Sound Machines" in York City Art Gallery (now York Art Gallery) Jul-Sep '01.
Basically the same exhibition went on to Croydon Clocktower Gallery Jun-Sep '02;
Island Arts Centre, Lisburn, Northern Ireland, Jul-Sep '03;
Sheffield Millennium Gallery May-Aug '04.
The Veloncell Marcel was exhibited at the Zanabazar Museum of Fine Arts, Ulanbaatar, in the joint mongolian-swedish exhibit in connection w Art Camp, mongolia Jul and '05, organized by Blue Sun Contemporary Art Studio & Center in collaboration w Soil Society, a Swedish-Mongolian Cultural Organization, and donated to the Blue Sun group.
"Down and Up" sound installation at Musica Genera, Szczecin, pl '05.
The Kaleidochord was exhibited again at "Fabulous Sound Machines" in Tulliehouse Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle Jul-Sep '05;
Scarborough Art Gallery Jun-Sep '06;
and Ferens Art Gallery in Kingston upon Hull Jul-Sep '07.
"Damplifly", a sound environment at Okno theatre festival by Teatr Kana, Szczecin, pl '08, w Luc Kerléo and Tippi Tillvind.
Elective Affinities, a composition for Utsnitt at Fylkingen's 75 years anniversary, '08.
"Soundcheck, Room Service, Resting Circuits & Semla Med Varm Mjölk", a sound environment at Fylkingen w Johan Boberg, Luc Kerléo, Tippi Tillvind and Sören Runolf '09.
“A Play-off, Battle, Friendly Match, Let´s Get Sporty – elektronisk ljudmiljö och konsert” at Fylkingen, w Luc Kerléo, Noisiv and Tippi Tillvind '09.
The Kaleidochord was exhibited again at "Fabulous Sound Machines" in Gloucester City Museum & Art Gallery '10.
The Spaces of the Unconscious by Kathleen Fox at The Freud Museum London, I made music for her film The Shards of Memory, that she displayed in the exhibition '10.
Film installation at the festival Sound of Stockholm, Fylkingen, Music by me for the installation films Fish Soup and The Shards of Memory by Kathleen Fox, Kent, england '10.
Yikim/Destruction 2011! – surrealist exhibition w international contributions, Istanbul, turkey, collective exhibition section of the Surrealist Group in Stockholm ( Facebook event; flickr set) '11.
Collective objects at Surrealist Survival Kits, organized by the Surrealist Group in Athens w contributions from the Surrealist Group in Stockholm and Surrealist London Action Group at Nosotros '11.
Mobile collage in Symbiotic Lime-Stone Quarry Phantoms, exhibition by The Surrealist group in Stockholm w friends, at Nationalgalleriet, Stockholm, in collaboration w Sphinx förlag and Styx förlag '11.
Collaborative work by the Surrealist Group in Stockholm at Surrealism in 2012: Toward the World of the Fifth Sun, in Reading, Pennsylvania, usa '12.

Lecturer, musical instructor and workshop leader (children, students and adults).

Writer for international music-, art-, surrealist- and skeptic magazines like Folkvett, Hydrolith (Oyster Moon Press.), Rubberneck, Arsenal, The Improvisor, Nakna Läppar, Kristall, Kvicksand, Stora Saltet, Gränslöst, Parergon, Experimental Musical Instruments, Nutida Musik, Merge, Stockholms Fria Tidning, Mannen På Gatan, Noisegate, Nordic Sounds, Ballongmagasinet, Sjukdom, Sound of Music, Patricide. One article in Jon Rose's book The Pink Violin. In my Trotskyist past, I also wrote for Socialistiskt Perspektiv, Fyr! and for Bennytidningen. I also wrote for some school magazines at Norra Latin and Hantverkets Folkhögskola.

Radio program host for Radio Småland, Smålands Nations Närradio, Lund, and in Leksands Närradio.

Memberships: (in my youth: Kommunistisk Ungdom (vice president of the Farsta branch, southern Stockholm suburb), Folkkampanjen mot kärnkraft (study group leader), Socialistiska Förbundet (on the board), Ungsocialisterna, Unga Forskare, Socialistisk Ungdom för El Salvador, Bennyföreningen, Revolutionära Socialister); The Surrealist Group in Stockholm since its formation in '86. FSJ (Föreningen Sveriges Jazzmusiker) for a few years in the '80s. LMC a couple of years in the '90s. Fylkingen in Stockholm since about '96 (member of the production team '98 -'99; member of the board and production team '01-'02, chairman '02-'04 + '09-'10, member of the board -'09-'11). FRIM '98-'05 and '09- (webmaster -'02; member of board '98 - '00; chairman '01-'02). VEMS (Verksamma vid EMS) a couple of years and '09-. Musikcentrum. Citizen #446 and Minister of Reinventions of The Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland. Member of SKODK (Svenska Konstnärers Organisation för Digital Konst, that ran CRAC (Creative Room for Art & Computing) '00 to '04. SEAMS, Sweden's Electro-Acoustic Music Society '00-'05 and '09-. RANK (Riksförbundet Arrangörer av Nutida Konstmusik) (secretary of the board '01-'03). Föreningen Svenska Tonsättare (FST), Society of Swedish Composers since '02. STIM '03-'06. Part of IAPAO, the International Association of Performance Art Organizers, as a representative of Fylkingen '03-'05; contact for Northern Europe '04 - '05. Demokratinätet '01 to '04. Passive (support) member of the political activist group Globalisering Underifrån '01 to '03. Part of the civil disobedience campaign planka.nu since '01. Soil Society, a swedish-mongolian Cultural Organization '04 - '05. Gröndals Båtklubb '04 - '06. Vetenskap och Folkbildning - the swedish skeptics' society, since '07. Atheist network in Szczecin since '07. Surrealist Group in Szczecin since '07. PSR in '08. WIP:Sthlm '09-'11. Hyresgästföreningen, now and then.

Educations done: Sköndalsskolan; piano at Kommunala Musikskolan; Hammarbygymnasterna (elite gymnastics); Norra Latins Gymnasium (natural sciences profile); Stockholm University, Musicology 1 1/2 years; Lund University, Philosophy 1 year; Hantverkets Folkhögskola Leksand, Piano Technician 1 1/2 years; Musikk Instrument Akademiet, Moss, Piano- and Harpsichord Builder 3 1/2 years. Journeyman as a piano and harpsichord builder in Germany '96. Different courses, including the Electroacoustic Music Composition 2 years education, at EMS (Electroacoustic Music in Sweden), graduated in '00. Among the teachers were Anders Blomqvist, Lars-Gunnar Bodin, Jens Hedman, Pär Johansson, Efva Lilja, Rolf Enström, Erik Mikael Karlsson, Paulina Sundin, Göran Svensson.

Participated in workshops with: John Tchikai, Arne Forsén / Mats Gustafsson, Phil Minton, David Moss, Jaap Blonk, Maggie Nichols, Dorothea Schürsch, Stella Polaris, Theo Loevendie / Guus Jansen, Gino Robair, Cecil Taylor, Kapotte Muziek, Andrea Neumann / Axel Dörner, Rhodri Davies / Ingar Zach, Andrea Neumann / Burkhard Beins, Ingo Reulecke/Thomas Kiesel, Fredrik Olofsson, Jeffrey Morgan, Syntjuntan, Nicolas Collins, Lars-Gunnar Bodin, Gino Robair.

Occasional organizer of festivals, concerts and networks for intermedia art, improvised and electronic music.

Dancer and musician in SU-EN Butoh Company '91-'94. Tours in Sweden. Afterwards sometimes collaborates as a musician.

Actor and musician in professional street theatre group Stella Polaris tour '95 - '97 and '99.
Actor and musician in Fossbryterne canal performance by Skuespillerkompaniet '97.
Actor, composer, musician, dancer and technician in Hans og Grethe, Snødronningen and Smørbukk by Eventyrteatret, no '95 - '04.

International adviser for The Rosenberg Museum.

Grants: Musikaliska Akademiens Stipendier För Instrumenttekniker; Konstnärsnämnden travel grants (numerous times); Sleipnir (twice). STIM work grant '00, '03 & '05. Konstnärsnämnden work grant '01, '02, '04, '07. Svensk Musik travel grant '02. Stockholms Stads Konstnärsstipendium '03. Recreation & travel grants from FST '03. Travel grant, Svenska Institutet '04. Konstnärsnämnden work grant "with a goal" '06. FST '10.

Prizes and competitions: I refuse to have anything to do with competitions. I don't participate, I don't sit in jurys. Nevertheless, my work for the Swedish Radio Corporation, Tiden Går, was sent as the contribution from the radio to the international competition Prix Italia. It didn't win. I have debated this question in the Swedish Composers' Society. I argued for the closure of the competition of text-sound compositions that EMS ran, and it was closed with the agreement in the EMS-rådet I was a representative in.

Culture-related work: sound- and light technician at technical production of and during performances, archiving and registering, webmaster (with experiences of digital sound- video- and image editing), proof reader, magazine editor, translator, work in the bar, selling tickets, cleaning etc.

Non-culture-related work: piano tuner and –technician, janitor (3 different places), kindergarten worker, after school child care, personal assistant to a school boy with social problems, music- and school teacher extra, home assistant to 5 people with mental handicaps, personal assistant to a man with multiple handicaps, swedish teacher, telephone interview worker, newspaper deliverer, postman and mail sorting, restaurant dishwasher, lamp store assistant etc.

Driving license: since '06.

Lived in: Stockholm, sweden '63-'68; Rome, italy '69; Stockholm, sweden '69-'84 (spending all my childhood summers + a few winters in Cupramarittima, AP, italy); Lund, sweden '84-'85; Malmö, sweden '85; Stockholm '85-'90; Leksand, sweden '90-'91; Moss, norway '91-'96; Oslo, norway '96-'97; Stockholm '97-'04; Szczecin, poland '04-'06; Los Angeles, California '06; Szczecin '06-'07; Stockholm '07; Szczecin '07-'09; Stockholm '09-.

Languages: swedish, english, norwegian, italian, (also, to smaller degrees: german, french, spanish and polish). Understands but doesn't talk danish.

MORE separate info: På svenska: Elektroakustiska o.a. kompositioner. Föredrag och workshops som jag leder.

Electroacoustic a.o. compositions. Lectures and workshops that I lead. Workshops and work for children and young people that I've done. Musical instrument gallery. Discography. Places I've performed. Collaborations in all. Playing cousins. Technical and other performance needs (rider). Biography as a surrealist. Texts and contents of other resources.