Wiebke Spieker: An Introduction into the Life and Work of Åke Parmerud

The Swedish Scene – 50 Jahre EMS Stockholm | Symposium


14.06.2014


Wiebke Spieker will give a (short) overview about Åke Parmerud‘s
biography in the first part of her talk. As a composer working in
the electronic and electroacoustic music scene in Sweden since
the late 1970s, the developments of the three institutions
Fylkingen, EMS, and Sveriges Radio have been decisive for his
biography. To get a complete overview about Parmerud‘s work, she
will extend her considerations to the subjects ‚installations‘
and ‚stage art‘./// For his music and media art works Parmerud
won several prizes, including the Giga-Hertz- and
Walter-Fink-Prize awarded by the ZKM./// At the end she will
shortly present the two works that won the Giga-Hertz-Prize
(2008: La Vie Mécanique) and the Walter-Fink-Prize (2011: The
Seventh Sense (together with Mireille Leblanc), and the
comissioned works by these prizes.
Wiebke Spieker studied musicology and Scandinavien studies at
University of Cologne (bachelor degree since 2012). Therefore she
travelled to Sweden to study the history of electronic and
electroacoustic music at the EMS Stockholm and to do an interview
with Åke Parmerud in Gothenburg for her bachelor thesis. In
October 2012 she proceeded with her studies in musicology for her
upcoming master degree. Besides her studies, she is working in
the field of concert organisation, mostly for contemporary music
and (urban) sound art.