This year's Norberg festival 2009

will take place July 30, 31 and August 1 = three days of electroacoustic music, performance, electronica, experimental breakcore, theremin, you name it in Norberg. Don't miss this event!

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Benjamin Thigpen

was here for three weeks composing and teaching. He taught a course in Audiosculpt which was much appreciated by the students. We're hoping he will come back to teach and compose some more.

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Alex Nowitz

has been guest composer at EMS between 11-25 May. During his stay here he has also managed to perform as a live-electronics musician, a performance that was much appreciated by all present.

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Sabine Vogel

was guest composer here at EMS from 18-25 May 2009! Sabine is a flautist and lives in Potsdam. She concentrates on sound and improvisation and has appeared in many improvisation-related contexts in Germany and abroad.

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Early EMS history

Sanne Krogh Groth who is conducting research on the early history of EMS presented a paper at the Electroacoacoustic Music Studies Network International Conference in June 2008.

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Jiménez, Galiana, Bjelkeborn

Inside3. This Spanish/Swedish music was performed at Fylkingen in Stockholm Sweden 21st april 2009 by Thomas Bjelkeborn (left) on laptop and wii controllers, Josep Lluise Galiana (middle) on Saxophones and Gregorio Jimenez (right) on laptop and interactive gadgets. This is the last 3 minutes of this 40 minute Suite composed during a residency at EMS in Stockholm.

Archives

Letters and other types of documentation relating to EMS were moved to Musikbiblioteket (the Music Library in Stockholm) yesterday and will be available for research in due course.