EMS concert at Kägelbanan, Södra Teatern 16/9 2010

EMS is starting the new seasong in style by proudly presenting:
KTL (Stephen O'Malley and Peter Rehberg), Nikka, Wobbulator.

It starts at 20.00 and goes on until late!

Joshua Kopecek is guest composer 23/3-29/3 2010

was guest composer at EMS 23/3-29/3 2010. He worked together with flautist Christine Clancy.

We've had a face-lift!

New carpets really make a change! We have got rid of the dusty old wall-to-wall carpets in the studios and have replaced them with brand-new ones in nice colours. We're sure this is good for creativity and productivity! Enjoy!

Guest composers in spring 2010

So far we know that Benjamin Thigpen and Philippe Moënne-Loccoz will be coming. We also hope to see Amanda Cole. And many more are in the pipeline.

Art's Birthday 2010

As usual, we will be celebrating Art's Birthday also in 2010. Location: Södra Teatern. The event will be broadcast. Artists from EMS are: Dror Feiler, The Moth and Lilian von Haussen.

Guest composer

Robert Dow is guest composer at EMS all December 2009.

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/Isabel

Digital PDP 15

Today we found parts of the old Digital PDP 15 from the old days when the studio was situated on Kungsgatan 8!

Concerts Sweden will close down in 2011!

Since the mid 90s, EMS has been a department within Concerts Sweden (Rikskonserter). The present Government has now decided to close down Concerts Sweden in 2011. But that doesn't mean that we will be left homeless. Instead we will become a department within The Swedish National Collections of Music. We are thrilled to know that we can continue working as before and are looking forward to new challenges and collaborations.

/Isabel

Daniel Araya

Our new studio engineer Daniel Araya has arrived! We are very happy to have him on board and are looking forward to maintain and develop EMS together with him.

Welcome Daniel! say Ylva Skog, Mats Lindström, Göran Svensson and myself, Isabel Thomson.

P2 Swedish Radio Europe-wide concert

9.05-10.30 pm on P2 Swedish Radio 6/10 2009. World premiere of pieces by Åke Parmerud, Lise-Lotte Norelius and Daniel Skoglund. Interview with Mats Lindström.

Sukandar Kartadinata

will be holding a Sensor workshop at EMS 2-4 October 2009. On Thursday 1 October, he will be giving a seminar.

/Isabel

André Bartetzki

gave a much appreciated SuperCollider workshop at EMS in September 2009.

/Isabel

Sound art course at EMS

A sound art course, resulting in a masters, has now started at EMS. The course is a collaboration between EMS, Mats Lindström and DI, Anders Aare. They have invited several prominent sound artists, artists and composers to teach the five students who were selected to attend. A lot of the tuition is taking place in EMS studios. The five students come from different areas: radio documentary making, art, composing and singing/performing.

/Isabel

Benjamin Thigpen

has finished the piece he was working on at EMS in Stockholm and at GRM in Paris. It will be premiered on Radio France on 5 December 2009.

/Isabel

Guest composers

Guest composers this autumn at EMS include Carlos Giffoni and Mark O'Leary.

/Isabel

EMS music archive searchable online

As a result of the EMS/National library digitisation project, all music created at EMS starting at 1964 is now searchable in the DISMARC portal. DISMARC is short for Discovering music archives, and one can read more about the project here. Thanks to Lena Forsgren at Svenskt visarkiv (Centre for Swedish Folk Music and Jazz Research) and Gerda Koch at DISMARC, who made this possible!

To search for EMS material exclusively, go to Advanced search, select "Archive" as field and enter "ems". There are about 3800 items in all, but one can add additional search terms with "+" to narrow the search:



Please note that due to copyright restrictions, we unfortunately cannot provide audio files online. For now, you have to come to EMS to listen.

/Pär, your friendly neighbourhood librarian

Courses at EMS

If you are interested in learning more about electroacoustic music or about how to make some yourself, there are several courses at EMS that gradually give you access to the studios. We also organise seminars and other evens that may be of interest.

Please note that all tuition is in Swedish. If you want to know more please contact us:
adm@ems.rikskonserter.se
Phone: 08-556 08 850
See also: www.ems.rikskonserter.se under courses!

New Studio Engineer at EMS

Our studio engineer of 40 years, Göran Svensson will sadly be retiring at the end of November. Göran has been a witness and key engineer in the history of the electroacoustic music evolution here at EMS!

On 1/10, the new studio engineer at EMS will be joining us! His name is Daniel Araya and has previously worked as a sound engineer etc at the Swedish Radio. He is also very big on analogue synthesizers and knows all about our Buchla and Serge here at EMS and can cure them when they are sick!

Those of you who have been to the Norberg festival know that he is one of the driving forces behind it and may have danced at his own club Camp 303!

/Isabel

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!

/Isabel