The archive of EMS and related archives

Note July, 30, 2014: For an updated and extended version, see Electronic music archives in the collection of The Swedish Performing Arts Agency.

The archives of EMS and Fylkingen were donated to the Music and Theatre Library of Sweden in 2009. Archivist Jens Bjurman processed the EMS archive during spring 2010, and the inventory (in Swedish) is now published on the library website (his master's thesis on the processing can be found here). For EMS's tape archive, see below. The Fylkingen tape archive is partly digitised and available for research at Fylkingen.

The Music and Theatre Library also holds some other archives of interest to researchers in Swedish electronic music (links are to the inventories, if available. Please note that most of them are in Swedish):

• Sven-Erik Bäck (1919-1994). Autographs, correspondence etc. can also be found in:
• the Lars Frydén archive;
• the Birgitta Nordenfelt archive;
• the Silverstolpe collection;
• the Bo Wallner archive.
• Elektronmusik. Sources used by Olle Olsson for his work list Electroacoustic music in Sweden : musique concrete, computer music, live-electronic, text-sound composition (1986?).
• Ulf Grahn. Autographs, sketches, correspondence etc.
• Bengt Hambraeus (1928-2000). The main Hambraeus archive is in Canada: Bengt Hambraeus fonds, but there are some autographs and other manuscripts in the Bo Wallner archive.
• Ralph Lundsten (b. 1936) and his fan club, the Andromeda Fan Society. Autographs, sketches, correspondence, tapes etc.
• Arne Mellnäs (1933-2002). Autographs, sketches, correspondence etc.
• Ákos Rózmann (1939-2005). Autographs, sketches, music scores. Tapes, cd:s and dvd:s are also available for research, but are not listed in the inventory.
• SEAMS (The Society for Electroacoustic Music in Sweden). The former Swedish section of ICEM/CIME.

The Swedish Museum of Performing Arts stores some of the former studio equipment of EMS, Ralph Lundsten and Ákos Rózmann (information only in Swedish).

In addition, the National Library of Sweden holds the archives of Karl-Birger Blomdahl (1916-1968) and Åke Hodell (1919-2000), and a small Öyvind Fahlström (1928-1976) archive (the main one is in Barcelona at the Museum of Contemporary Art). For more information, search for these names in Ediffah. The Hodell tape archive is in SMDB. The archive of his father, Björn Hodell, is at the Music and Theatre Library.

The EMS tape archive
EMS's music archive ("bandarkivet", the tape archive) has been donated to the National Library of Sweden for long-time preservation (except for commercially released records, which will be kept in the EMS library). The digitised content will be accessible through the Swedish Media Database (SMDB).

There are three ways to search the EMS music archive:

1. For digitised materials only, search SMDB with 'collection:"EMS bandarkiv"' to see all available items. Currently, SMDB holds only about 80 works, but more will come. One can listen to these works at the National Library of Sweden/Audiovisual Media, but not online, due to copyright restrictions (what else?).
2. To search the entire archive, use DISMARC, which I've blogged on elsewhere. The metadata is limited, and one can't listen to the music, but one sees all content, whether digitised or not.
3. Visit EMS and search the full database. It has some additional functionality compared to SMDB and DISMARC, e.g. an hierarchic display of a composer's works, their versions and audio carriers (based on FRBR). The EMS database is also the most frequently updated, and one can listen to all of the digitised music, including CD:s and DVD:s that haven't been migrated to the database yet.

New books in EMS' library

• ARTI (Artistic Research, Theory and Innovation group at the Amsterdam School of the Arts): Beginning with music, continuing otherwise (Rtrsrch, vol. 2, no. 1)
• Bak, Andrea: Else Marie Pade : en biografi
• Barry S. Brook (red.): Musicology and the computer : Musicology 1966-2000. A practical program : three symposia 1965-66
• Bruland, Inge (red.): Else Marie Pade og Symphonie magnétophonique
• Centralantikvariatet: Modern philosophy : from the library of Carl Lesche (Catalogue 13)
• Centralantikvariatet: Music : from the library of Carl Lesche (Catalogue 15)
• Donnerborg, Troels: Klangen af en stjerne : historien om vidunderbarnet, Else Marie Pade ...
• LaBelle, Brandon: Sound culture and everyday life
• Liljeholm, Thomas & Parment, Hans: Framgångsrik mönstermodell : Coma, Contemporary music and artists, Växjö : Musik i Syds centrum för nutida konstmusik 2003-2010
• Sjöbrandt, Agnes: Ákos Rózmanns arkiv
• Tompkins, Dave: How to wreck a nice beach : the vocoder from world war II to hip-hop
• Voegelin, Salomé: Listening to noise and silence : towards a philosophy of sound art
• Wiggen, Knut: De två musikkulturerna

SuperCollider Symposium 2010 call for Submissions

SuperCollider Symposium 2010 Berlin
http://supercollider2010.de
http://supercollider.sourceforge.net

We would like to announce that we are hosting the next SuperCollider Symposium in Berlin, September 23-26, 2010. Berlin is a very attractive city for artists and has great diverse and lively music scenes. We have found some great locations for concerts, workshops and conference talks, and we are currently finalizing the rest of the locations and will provide more detailed information on our website shortly.

The symposium will introduce SuperCollider (SC) to new users, show the current state of development, and host talks and presentations of a variety of artistic and/or scientific projects realised with SC. The 4-day conference will be preceeded by 5 days of workshops intended as community service to help beginning programmers, composers and artists with specific SuperCollider techniques. All Concerts, performances and exhibitions will be open to the public.

Call for Works, Installations, Papers, Workshops
We are now inviting proposals for participation in the fourth SuperCollider Symposium in Berlin, Germany, September 23-26, 2010.

You can propose works or installations to be performed or shown in different venues:
http://supercollider2010.de/calls/14-call-for-works
http://supercollider2010.de/venues

You can propose papers and presentations to be read at the conference:
http://supercollider2010.de/calls/15-call-for-papers-presentations-demos

You can propose workshops to be held in September 18-22, 2010
http://supercollider2010.de/calls/16-call-for-workshops

Please read the general info for calls:
http://supercollider2010.de/calls/13-calls-general

All entries will be evaluated by appropriate juries (for details see individual calls).

For more information and contacts go to http://supercollider2010.de

Symposion on Music/Sonic Art call for papers

In conjunction with InterSymp 2010: 22nd International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics

Symposion on Music/Sonic Art

August 2-6, 2010
Markgraf-Ludwig Gymnasium, Hardstrasse 2, Baden-Baden, Germany

CALL FOR PAPERS:
We are pleased to announce the International Symposium on Music/Sonic Art: Practices and Theories, an interdisciplinary two-day event to be held in Baden-Baden, Germany. The provisional dates of the Symposium are August 2-3 in order that participants can also attend other symposia such as: the 8th Special Focus Symposium on Art and Science, the 3rd Symposium on Systems Research in Arts and Humanities and Comprovisations: Improvisation Systems in Performing Arts and Technologies.

Proposals for sessions and individual papers for the International Symposium on Music/Sonic Art: Practices and Theories are invited from academics, practitioners and post-graduate students of diverse fields of investigation, according to one of the following formats: academic research paper (including research in progress), report on practice-based work or educational programmes. (Delegates wishing to present performances are advised to consult the call for papers of symposia listed above.) All proposals will be judged based on their scholarly quality, originality and potential for further discourse.

Paper Proposals/Abstracts should be submitted as soon as possible but no later than March 30, 2010. Notification of Acceptance and a Paper Template will be sent to authors by April 9, 2010. Further details on Submission Guidelines, the Copyright Transfer Form, and the Conference Registration Form are available at the IIAS home page: www.iias.edu.

Please note that the early registration fee is 345.00 Euros (per one Conference participant) if paid on or before May 1, 2010 and 395.00 Euros thereafter: this includes participation in all Symposia of the IIAS InterSymp 2010 Conference, the festive reception, the symposium booklets and the Music/Sonic Art Symposium Proceedings - Volume I.

Paper committee: Prof. Dr. Mine Dogantan-Dack (Middlesex University, UK); Prof. Clarence Barlow (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA); Holger Zschenderlein (University of Brighton, UK); Fiorenzo Palermo (University of Middlesex, UK); Dr. John Dack (Lansdown Centre for Electronic Art, Middlesex University, UK).

Sound ACTs call for papers

Sound as Art - Sound in Culture
Sound in Theory - Sound in History
Conference on Sound Studies

University of Aarhus, Denmark
September 23–25, 2010

The aim of the conference is to profile contemporary sound studies as an interdisciplinary field of studies and to contribute to the discussion and development of the auditive paradigm in general. Key concepts like 'acoustemology', 'acoustic space', 'sonic environment', and 'atmosphere' might be reflected upon and developed as well, both at a theoretical level and with regard to specific cultural, medial and aesthetic contexts.

The program of the conference will consist of keynote lectures, plenary roundtables, thematic workshops and individual presentations of papers and sound art projects. Keynote speakers are Dr. Penelope Gouk (University of Manchester), Dr. Jean-Paul Thibaud (CRESSON), and professor Adam Krims (University of Nottingham).

Special sessions will be held for sound artists to present and discuss their work, and a workshop will take place on Friday where small groups of sound artists will develop sound installations for presentation in the evening. A special call for this stream will be issued.

The conference is organized by the National Research Network on Auditive Culture, the research project Audiovisual Culture, the research group Urban Sound Institute (and www.usit.nu), and the Nordic Branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music.

Proposals for presentations (20/10 mins) or workshops (90 mins) must be submitted to the conference organisers/programme committee by April 1, 2010 as an email attachment (rtf/pdf/doc) to soundstudies@hum.au.dk. Please include the following information: Paper abstract and title (max. 200 words), name(s), affiliation, e-mail, and technical equipment required (PC/DVD/CD/data projector/over-head projector/etc.). Notifications of acceptance will be sent no later than May 3, 2010.

The official language of the conference is English. The conference fee is 1.000 D.Kr/€135.

For more info, see http://auditiveculture.ku.dk/dokument7/

New books in EMS' library

• Teknologi för livet : om Experiments in Art and Technology
• Adlington, Robert (ed.): Sound commitments : avant-garde music and the sixties
• Blomberg, Katja (ed.): Peter Ablinger : hören, hören = hearing, listening
• Broman, Per F. ; Engebretsen, Nora A. & Alphonce, Bo (ed.): Crosscurrents and counterpoints : offerings in honor of Bengt Hambræus at 70
• Bucht, Gunnar: Rum, människa, musik : essä
• Bull, Michael & Back, Les (eds.): The auditory culture reader
• Collins, Nick: Introduction to computer music
• Dogantan-Dack, Mine: Recorded music : philosophical and critical reflections
• Dyson, Frances: Sounding new media : immersion and embodiment in the arts and culture
• Goodman, Steve: Sonic warfare : sound, affect, and the ecology of fear
• Howe, Hubert S.: Electronic music synthesis
• Hultgren, Veronica: Text-ljudkomposition
• Kim-Cohen, Seth: In the blink of an ear : toward a non-cochlear sonic art
• Krause, Bernie: Wild soundscapes : discovering the voice of the natural world : a book and CD recording
• Lunell, Hans: Kompilatorkonstruktion : i teori och praktik
• Miranda, Eduardo Reck & Biles, John Al (eds.): Evolutionary computer music
• Moore, Brian C. J.: An introduction to the psychology of hearing
• Mossberg, Frans (ed.): Sound, mind and emotion : research and aspects : texts from a series of interdisciplinary symposiums arranged 2008 by The Sound Environment Centre at Lund University, Sweden
• Nierhaus, Gerhard: Algorithmic composition : paradigms of automated music generation
• Park, Tae Hong: Introduction to digital signal processing : computer musically speaking
• Stenberg, Ulf: Den gröna potatisen
• Taube, Heinrich K.: Notes from the metalevel : introduction to algorithmic music composition
• Toole, Floyd E.: Sound reproduction : loudspeakers and rooms
• Wierzbicki, James: Louis and Bebe Barron's Forbidden planet : a film score guide
• Wisén, Marie & Karlsson, Henri (eds.): - att tvinga tonerna att tala : en bok till Ingvar Lidholm
• Zorn, John (ed.): Arcana : musicians on music
• Zorn, John (ed.): Arcana II : musicians on music
• Zorn, John (ed.): Arcana III : musicians on music
• Zorn, John (ed.): Arcana IV : musicians on music

CeReNeM Journal call for papers

The Journal of the Centre for Research in New Music at the University of Huddersfield is currently soliciting articles for its second edition. The theme of this edition of the Journal will be 'Physicality and Tactility in Contemporary Electronic Music'.

The Journal will be peer reviewed and published online by CeReNeM at the University of Huddersfield. All submissions on this topic will be considered. We are particularly interested in articles concerning the following areas:

• physicality as aesthetic in all areas of electronic music (electroacoustic, glitch, microsound, ambient etc.)
• live-electronic improvisation
• new interfaces
• extended instruments
• performance practice
• sonification of external physical data
• sensors
• issues of virtuosity in new technology
• live coding as performance
• perception of physicality in electroacoustic music

Articles should be between 3000 - 6000 words using the attached template and submitted by email to monty(dot)adkins(at)hud(dot)ac(dot)uk by Friday 21st May.

This edition will be co-edited by Dr Monty Adkins and Dr Scott McLaughlin and will be published in July 2010. Further details and enquiries can be made to monty(dot)adkins(at)hud(dot)ac(dot)uk.

FIMPaC 2010 call for papers

Forum for Innovation in Music Production and Composition (FIMPaC)
Thursday 20 and Friday 21 May 2010
In Association with: Journal for Music, Technology and Education, www.intellectbooks.co.uk

The Forum for Innovation in Music Production and Composition takes place at Leeds College of Music from Thursday 20th to Friday 21st May 2010. FIMPaC is an annual event focusing on research and practice related to innovations in Music Production and Composition. This year's event is in association with the Journal for Music, Technology and Education. FIMPaC¹s goal is to bring together composers, producers, music industry representatives, academics, educators and students to discuss their practice, research and industry experiences; FIMPaC encourages participants and delegates that represent the commercial music industry and academia.

Keynote Speakers

• Jazzie B, founder of the collective Soul II Soul is our Keynote for 20th May and will open the conference. He will discuss his experiences within the Commercial Music Industry.
• David Toop will open the second day of the conference and address connections between commercial and experimental music and whether we can sustain notions of their independence. David will also be performing in the evening.

Call for Papers
This year's call for papers is in association with the Journal for Music, Technology and Education. Proposers are asked to indicate on their submission if they would like their work to be considered for publication in a forthcoming issue of the journal.

For more information go to http://www.lcm.ac.uk/research-conference/fimpac.htm.

SUM - symposium and concert in Stockholm

SUM symposium and concert in Stockholm, Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Systematic Understanding of Music
Today, digitally informed music has reached a point where it has become feasible to detect emotion content in the musical audio stream (sound). When this is applied in real-time to aspects of its response, a new context for the creation, performance and listening to music is established where man and machine can interact in much more meaningful ways than previously. This provides for new and more engaged expressions, giving new horizons for musical artwork.

The purpose of the SUM project is to develop such tools by building on existing work by internationally outstanding scholars in the Nordic countries in digital signal processing, music cognition, emotion expression, and interaction software development. For additional information about the SUM project: http://re-new.org/research/sum/

SUM symposium
Onsdagen den 17 februari 2010 kl 10.00-17.00
A330 (Kompositionsseminariet), Kungliga Musikhögskolan, Valhallavägen 105, Stockholm (T-Bana Stadion)
Lars Graugaard (DK), Anders Friberg (KTH), Marcus Wrangö (KMH)

10.00 Introduktion till SUM / Lars Graugaard
11.00 Känslor i musik / Anders Friberg
12.00 Probabilistic melody maker / Anders Friberg & Lars Graugaard
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Kreativa möjligheter
Systematiskt bruk av känslor i musik / Lars Graugaard
15.00 Demo: Gestiska sensorer / Marcus Wrangö
16.00 Tillämpningar och presentationer
(re-new digital arts festival) / Lars Graugaard
17.00 Slut

Konsert
Onsdag 17 februari, kl 20.00. Fylkingen, Torkel Knutssongatan 2, Stockholm (T-Bana Mariatorget)

Symposiet är gratis, konserten kostar 80 kr (student 60 kr).

Ljudkultur

Some info in Swedish only about the course Sonic culture - soundscapes and the making of sound at Linköping university.

Ljudkultur - ljudlandskap och skapande av ljud är en fristående kurs (30 hp) vid Institutionen för studier av samhällsutveckling och kultur/Enheten Kultur Samhälle Mediegestaltning på Linköpings universitet, Campus Norrköping. Den ges på både grundläggande och avancerad nivå och startar höstterminen 2010. Lärare är bl.a. Magnus Alexanderson.