Mats Lindström: EMS - 50 Years

The Swedish Scene – 50 Jahre EMS Stockholm | Symposium


14.06.2014


The first part of the talk will deal with the first generation of
electronic music in Sweden and the birth of EMS. The second will
give an orientation on the current situation and activities at
EMS.
Mats Lindström (*1960, Sweden) works as a composer and a
musician, often with strains of live-electronics and with live
performance, intermedia, scenic elements and visual arts as a
complement to the music. He has worked both with music for
theatre, opera, radio art and dance. Formerly an engineer in the
electronics industry he has designed and constructed a number of
unique electronic musical instruments and apparatuses. Some use
light as a sound generating source. He teaches sound art and has
given lectures worldwide on sound art and the history of the
Swedish electronic music scene. During the 1990s he worked for
the Fylkingen society, both as producer and as president. Since
2004 he is the artistic director of Elektronmusikstudion, EMS in
Stockholm.