Ronnie Sundin: Rune Lindblad - A Swedish Pioneer

The Swedish Scene – 50 Jahre EMS Stockholm | Symposium


14.06.2014


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!