RONNIE SUNDIN: RUNE LINDBLAD – A SWEDISH PIONEER
The Swedish Scene – 50 Years EMS Stockholm (Symposium)
The Swedish Scene – 50 Years EMS Stockholm (Symposium)
- Category
- Lecture/Talk
- Date
- 14.08.2014
- Description
- Rune Lindblad (1923–1991) was a Swedish composer of musique concrète and electronic music, and a visual artist. He first began composing in 1953 and composed over 200 works. His first piece, Party, is considered the first electroacoustic work created in Sweden. For three years he experimented with optics and sound, and produced five works using over 1800 meters of film.
On 14 February 1957, Lindblad, Sven-Eric Johansson, and Bruno Epstein put on the first concert of concrète and electronic music in Sweden at the Folkets Hus in Gothenburg. The audience responded poorly and demanded refunds. Critics referred to the music as ‚pure torture‘./// As a visual artist, he created paintings, drawings, etchings, collages, woodcuts, etc. Some of which adorn his albums./// Lindblad taught at University of Gothenburg. His students included Rolf Enström, Åke Parmerud, and Ulf Bilting.
Ronnie Sundin (*1973) has been recording and producing his own music for more than 20 years covering a wide range of styles within electronic and experimental music. During the second half of the 1990s he operated under the name Bad Kharma with a string of self-produced releases on his own BonBon Records imprint which showcased an interest in noisy tape collages combining influences from The Hafler Trio, Merzbow and Illusion of Safety. During the first half of the 2000s however, he investigated a gradually more and more quiet approach utilizing plenty of field recordings from his extensive archives combined with computer processed and electronic sounds in an attempt to create dreamlike, sensitive hypnagogic states presented on releases on critically acclaimed labels such as Ground Fault, Häpna, Antifrost and Komplott but in recent years we have seen him revisit to the more loud noise oriented field he explored earlier. Ronnie is also the author and illustrator of the comic book on Rune Lindblad that was released on the occasion of this festival! ronsun.se
Video Documentary:
ZKM | Institute for Visual Media
Camera:
Martina Rotzal, Fabian Selbach
Editing: Anna-Lena Vogel
