Bio

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Kajsa Lindgren (b. 1990) is a Swedish composer, sound-artist and sound designer mainly working with field recordings and vocals, and different ways to approach and perform them (through spatial, multichannel distribution as well as within more traditional formats). Her work includes electroacoustic compositions and sound installations, as well as compositions for acoustic traditional instruments. 

Portfolio

 

All Things Ordinary (acousmatic, multichannel), 2023

Macrocosm (3D Ambisonics fixed media), 2022

Humming (EAM), 2018

Intertwine (sound walk), 2018

WOMB (multimedia), 2018

Loss for saxophone quartet and 4 speakers (EAM), 2018

Hrikalegt (3D Ambisonics fixed media), 2017

Dolt ljudlandskap/Hidden Soundscapes (sound installation), 2016

Med ett lätt förakt/With a slight contempt (multichannel),  2016

The Everyday Urban Soundscape (EAM), 2015

Coalesce pt 3 (multichannel), 2015

Coalesce pt 2 (multichannel), 2014

Coalesce pt 1 (EAM), 2014

Exhalation for piano, cello, viola, violin, flute, clarinet and percussion (instrumental), 2014

As long as I stayed occupied (EAM), 2014

Memory Loss (EAM), 2013

Remembrance (EAM), 2013

Daughters & Sons (EAM), 2013

Strukturer / Structures for piano and bow (instrumental), 2013

Tillbaka / Returning (sound walk), 2012

Treva/Hesitate for piano, cello, viola, violin, flute, clarinet and percussion (instrumental), 2012

What’s inside/don’t let it out for piano, cello, viola, violin, flute, clarinet and percussion(instrumental), 2012

Other

 

Teacher in soundscape composition and electroacoustic music at the Gotland School of Music Composition

Teacher in composition and studio engineering at ElektronMusikStudion (EMS), 2019 – present

Teacher in electroacoustic composition and music production at Lilla Akademien august 2021 – december 2022

Dotterbolaget: With the Flick of a Switch, musical supervisor, musical editor, project manager and sound design, 2020 (postponed)

Recording technician for the festival Svensk Musikvår, 2020

Reviewer for Nutida Musik 2019 – present

Recording technician for the Association for Swedish Composers (FST), 2020

Workshop in sound art and composition at Eskilstuna Musikskola, 2020

Editing and mixing for Artipelag, 2019

Recording technician for the festival Svensk Musikvår, 2019

Consultant for Sisters in Contemporary Music in the project “I slumpens tjänst” funded by Kulturbryggan, 2018-2019

Concert producer for Sisters in Contemporary Music in collaboration with Stockholm Concert Hall, 2018

Cirkus Cirkör: Epifónima, sound design, 2018

Workshop for children in sound art at Runmarö Musik- och litteraturdagar, 2018

Recording technician for the festival Svensk Musikvår, 2017

Concert producer for Sisters in Contemporary Music in collaboration with Sound of Stockholm, 2017

Lecturer at Stockholm Concert Hall, 2017

Leader of workshop in sound art for children, Kristinehamn’s Art Museum, 2017

Recording technician for the festival Svensk Musikvår, 2016

White Wolf: Mage the Ascension: Refuge, music and sound design, 2016

Board member of KVAST, 2017 – 2018

Board member of Sound of Stockholm, 2016-2017

Board member of UNM (Ung Nordisk Musik), 2016 – 2017

Lecturer at Ingesunds Folkhögskola, 2016

Board member of Konstmusiksystrar (Sisters in Contemporary Music) 2015 – 2018

Folkoperan: ANTI, sound design and musician, 2014

Residencies

 

INA GRM Paris november, 2023

INA GRM Paris april, 2022

FST (the association for Swedish composers) Berlin, 2022

FST (the association for Swedish composers) Cortona, 2019

Residency at NOTAM (Center for the development and innovative use of technology in music and the arts) Oslo, 2017

Education

 

Royal College of Music in Stockholm – Master in electroacoustic composition, 2015-2017

Royal College of Music in Stockholm – Bachelor in electroacoustic composition, 2012-2015

de Montfort Universitys department of Music, Technology & Performance i Leicester, England – Erasmusexchange, 2014

College of Music in Piteå – Bachelor in contemporary music (composition), 2010-2012