SMULLOTRON

[Smullotron at Hide, Gotland, 2004]
Smullotron at Hide, Gotland, 2004. Bergmark, Norelius, Runolf. Photo © Sören Runolf (also the other photographs on this page).

is an improvising live electronics trio which origins in the creative environment at Fylkingen in Stockholm. All three are among the most active and creative live electronics improvisers in the world, and all have a wide and open musical background and experience. Together they are concentrating on the use of amplified objects, recorded sounds and virtual modular synthesizers (at least two each!) with own constructed digital patches, among other things that fill up a table each. The sounds merge into an exciting mix where it's difficult to say who makes what, drawing from the long history and techniques of the electronic music and sound art. Last time they performed, they were inspired by the sea life. The band then shared a small sailing boat together in Stockholm, called Agda.

[Johannes Bergmark at Hide, Gotland, 2004] JOHANNES BERGMARK plays improvised and live electronic music for invented instruments, selected objects, the musical saw, toys, voice and electronics. He makes his own instruments and contact microphones.
Bergmark is also a writer, electroacoustic music and text-sound composer, sound poet, piano technician, skeptic and surrealist. He has toured internationally and collaborated with other artists worldwide. He also makes sound sculptures, interactive sound installations, performance art and teaches and lectures.
He lives in Stockholm, Sweden, and is active in the organization for radical and experimental art Fylkingen (Stockholm), at the electronic music studio EMS and in the Surrealist Groups in Stockholm and Szczecin.
Other groups he belongs to include:
Najo Team with Nano
Fågelpingis with Tomas Halling, Jacob Ullberger
Duo with Martin Klapper
Think Pink with SU-EN
Slip with Jaap Blonk, Mats Gustafsson, Lou Mallozzi

[Lise-Lotte Norelius at Hide, Gotland, 2004] LISE-LOTTE NORELIUS is a percussionist, live electronics musician and electro-acoustic music composer.
She has during many years developed a personal sound with percussion and sampled sounds, foremost in the group ”Anitas Livs”. Since some years she works with live-electronics and realtime processing of percussion as well as other soundsources and is performing with different constellations, e.g.:
VFO (Välfärdsorkestern): live-electronic/improvisation duo with Sören Runolf
LUDD: live-electronic/improvisation duo with Ida Lundén (keyboards)
UNSK (Ulher, Norelius, Strid, Küchen): improvisation quartet
ONO: live electronic/improvisation trio with Sten Sandell and Sören Runolf
Tutuula Sisters: performance/dance/live-electronics/improvisation duo with Katarina Eriksson (dancer/choreographer)
Improvisation duo with Jukka Korpi (dancer/choreographer)

EAM composition for Teater Galeasen's production "Theres" about Baader-Meinhof, -2000.
"Lemur-Modulation" for 5 percussionists and live electronics, Jukka Korpi (dance), Fredrik Olofsson (video), -2002.
Sound/video- installation: Vita Kuben, Norrlandsoperan, Umeå, 2003
Sound/video- installation: Splintermind, Stockholm, 2004
Solo performances with different sound sources and live electronics.

Collaboration with Stockholm's Saxophone Quartet:
"Nightman" for solo saxophone (Jörgen Pettersson) and live computer.
"Nightmen" for saxophone quartet and live computer.
”4x4x4” Poetry/Contemporary music project with 4 poets, 4 composers and Stockholm's Saxophone Quartet.
“Frislag-2004” tour with Ikue Mori and Lindha Kallerdal
Fred Frith och Nya Perspektivensemblen, tour 2004

Work on commission:
”Gruvfruns goda råd”, for Rikskonserter/Västmanlands läns museum, 2003
”Bleed” (EAM/Video), for Rikskonserter/EMS, 2003
“Isola” (EAM/Danceperformance), for Rikskonserter/EMS, 2004

Education: The Royal College of Music: Percussion / EAM-composition 1998 – 2002

SÖREN RUNOLF has been a member of the Swedish improvisation music group Lokomotiv Konkret since the 70s. He is generally known for his innovative use of conventional instruments, such as the cello and the electric guitar. He has made music for intermedia projects and dance, and has also been involved in innumerable Swedish and international improvised music constellations and "experimental rock" groups.
Instruments: electric guitar, cello, synth, sampler, contact mics, analog & digital sound processors
Performing solo with live electronics and in collaborations as:
Lokomotiv Konkret (with Tommy Björk, Dror Feiler ) 1977-
Duo with Sten Sandell ca 1982-87
Member of The Too Much Too Soon Orchestra ca 1987-
Duo with Mats Lindström ca 1989-
Cloudchamber (with Johannes Bergmark, Martin Küchen) 1998-
VFO (duo with Lise-Lotte Norelius) 1999-
Other groups in which the basic platfom is some kind of "experimental rock" although free improvisation is part of it: E.g.:
Maksymenko&Kropparna, Mental Hospitality, David Thomas&The Pedestrians, ONO, Or Never Band, Skipper Worse.
Together with Bergmark, music to several Butoh-performances.
Also many collaborations with people working in other art forms as: dancers, choreographers, poets, directors, actors, video- and film makers, photographers, architechts, writers, painters, sculptors and performance artists. 		[Sören Runolf at Hide, Gotland, 2004]

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Updated the 18th of March 2009.

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