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Text-Sound Composition remains after more than forty years one of the highlights of Swedish electroacoustic music. The name denotes an artistic phenomenon which arose in the open environment of the 1960s at Fylkingen in Stockholm as an... more
Text-Sound Composition remains after more than forty years one of the highlights of Swedish electroacoustic music. The name denotes an artistic phenomenon which arose in the open environment of the 1960s at Fylkingen in Stockholm as an expression of interests in multi-disciplinary art at the nexus of text, music and technology.
More than just an isolated movement, text-sound composition has continued as a viable part of the electroacoustic music heritage in Sweden. The work of the pioneering poets, composers and artists, including Öyvind Fahlström, Lars- Gunnar Bodin, Bengt Emil Johnson, Sten Hanson, Åke Hodell, Ilmar Laaban and others, has previously been richly documented both in books and on cds. Much less, however, has been written about the second (and third) generation of composers who have, in several diverging manners and means, both developed and maintained this particular home- grown and internationally recognized approach.
Beginning with a short review of the early development of text-sound composition and a discussion of several of its aspects, a brief discussion of works by Åke Parmerud, Rolf Enström, William Brunson, Anders Blomqvist and Erik Peters will follow.
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