ABOUT US
LAB FOR LIFE-LONG SOUND DYSFUNCTIONS (LLLSD) is a collaborative project by Swedish experimental composers and artists Lars Åkerlund, Lise-Lotte Norelius, Sten Backman and Daniel Rozenhall. In Lab for Life-Long Sound Dysfunctions, the four artists work in different constellations with each other, in order to create new meetings in the borderland between the notated, the fixed and the improvised; between the musical and the visual. In January-February 2018, Lab for Life-Long Sound Dysfunctions were touring Thailand and southern China (Yunnan province), presenting a showcase with different settings of the four members, including new electronic experimental music and visuals. In January-February 2019, Lab for Life-Long Sound Dysfunctions will make another tour in Asia, including performances in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, Thailand and Okinawa (Japan).
Lab for Life-Long Sound Dysfunctions China and Thailand tour 2018
Bangkok, Thailand
LLLSD performed at Studio Lam, Bangkok, on January 18
Kunming, China
LLLSD performed at Zaotang Club, Kunming, on January 24
Dali, China
LLLSD performed at Jie Lu, Dali, on January 26
Lijiang, China
LLLSD performed at Wish You Were Here Café, Lijiang, on January 30
Back to Bangkok, Thailand
LLLSD performed at Bangkok CityCity Gallery on February 2
Chiang Mai, Thailand
LLLSD performed at Ne’-Na Contemporary Art Space, Chiang Mai, on February 10
PARTICIPANTS
Lars Åkerlund
Lars Åkerlund is a composer, sound artist and performer of mainly electronic and electroacoustic music, living in Stockholm. He studied music and classical guitar at Conservatorio del Liceo, Barcelona, and classical guitar and electroacoustic music at the Royal College of Music, Stockholm, at the EMS, Stockholm, as well as musicology at the University of Stockholm. Musical collaborations include Eryck Abecassis, Kasper T Toeplitz, Zbigniew Karkowski, CM von Hausswolff, Jean-Louis Huhta, Dror Feiler, Tetsuo Furudate, Lise-Lotte Norelius, Freddie Wadling, Dennis Wong, Arkajolie, Leif Elggren, Kent Tankred, Flesh Quartet, Kroumata and Johan Söderberg. He also co-founded bands like P.I.T.T. (with Zbigniew Karkowski et al) and Lucky People Center (with Johan Söderberg et al). Since the 90s he has made music for contemporary dance with choreographers Per Jonsson, Björn Elisson, Johan Inger and Cristina Caprioli and the Rambert Dance Company, London, Finnish National Ballet, Helsinki, the Gothenburg Opera Ballet, Stockholm Opera Ballet and most of the major Nordic dance companies, as well as the companies of the choreographers mentioned above. Lars Åkerlund made the music for film director Jan Troell’s Il Capitano (Silver Bear Award at the Berlin International Film Festival 1992 and the Guldbaggen Award for Best Film 1992, Stockholm) and Their Frozen Dream (Awarded at San Francisco International Film Festival 1999 and Valladolid International Film Festival 1999). In 2015 he made the music for the Sound of Silence festival, playing live in Tokyo and Berlin to the Chinese silent movie ”The Peach Girl” by Min Wancang Bu, made in 1932. Lars Åkerlund has been touring and made numerous live performances as well as music lectures and workshops throughout Africa, South America, Asia, USA and Europe. Lars Åkerlund has released records on labels as Radium 226.05, Firework Edition Records, SubRosa, Monotype Records, R.O.S.A. MNW Records and Fylkingen Records.
Lise-Lotte Norelius
Lise-Lotte Norelius is a Stockholm-based composer and musician, active in the fields of electroacoustic music, live electronics and sound art. As a performer, she works both as a solo artist and in various collaboration projects. She is one of the founders of the DIY ensemble Syntjuntan, which makes workshops and concerts with textile instruments. Lise-Lotte Norelius has a long history as a percussionist with experience from different musical fields such as traditional African music, experimental rock, free improvised music and from combining percussion and sampled sounds in the group Anitas Livs. Norelius studied electroacoustic composition at Royal College in Stockholm 1998-2002, and developed her work with live-electronics and realtime processing of percussion as well as other sound sources. Since then, she has composed music for speakers (EAM), musicians and live-electronics, installations, theatre, poetry and dance performances. Collaborations include works with for example SU-EN Butoh Company, Mats Persson & Kristine Scholz, Räserbyrån and Fredrik Olofsson. During later years, Norelius has been exploring controllable motors, home made noisy devices, synth jewelry, vacuum cleaners and floppy drives, usually in combination with Max/MSP software, various sensors and effect boxes. Lise-Lotte Norelius has released records, as a solo artist or in different groups, on labels like Firework Edition Records, Schhh…, Elektron Records and Fylkingen Records. She has received prices as Manifest, Nutida Sound and Rosenberg price.
Sten Backman
Sten Backman is a visual artist, composer and graphic designer, based in Stockholm. His fields of work include many areas, such as branding and identity, editorial, interactive applications, product design, websites, exhibition design, music videos and record covers. He has been working together with big corporations as well as small independent clients, and in 2006 he founded his own company, Great Big Container. In 2015, Sten Backman had an exhibition with his paintings at the Gallery Erik Axl Sund in Stockholm. That same year, his film “With Eyes Closed” was elected to be shown at the 30 years anniversary for the Maria Bonnier Dahlin Foundation. During later years, Backman has worked a lot with computer graphics in animated films for his own music as well as for other composers, for example Daniel Rozenhall with whom he has performed together at several occasions, both in Sweden and internationally. In 2018, Backman made the visuals for J.G Thirwell’s new album Xordox, a work which has been shown in London, Dublin, Los Angles and New York. The same year, he got invited to make visuals together with composer Lars Åkerlund at Festival Bruits Blancs #8 in Paris.
Daniel Rozenhall
Daniel Rozenhall is a composer, visual artist and record producer, living in Stockholm since 1999. He studied at EMS, Stockholm, between 1999-2001 and at the fine arts program at Konstfack, Stockholm, between 2002-2007. Rozenhall has released records with his music on labels like Firework Edition Record, Fylkingen Records and Kning Disk. He has performed his music at, for example, the Swedish Energies festival in New York, 2014, and at the Colour out of Space festival in Brighton, England, 2016, together with video works by Sten Backman. During many years, Rozenhall worked with the record label Fylkingen Records, and he was the producer of several highly acclaimed record productions, including both new and historical material, with artists working in the fields of electroacoustic music and text-sound composition. Presently, Rozenhall is a record producer, together with Leif Elggren and Kent Tankred, for the record label Firework Edition Records. Rozenhall has made interactive performance works including sound, visuals and physical actions, but he has also composed electroacoustic music for fixed media. In his music, Rozenhall mainly works with analogue equipment, creating soundscapes with a surrealistic, nightmarish and sometimes psychedelic character. The listener is invited into a sonic world where the most irrational and distorted veins of the human subconscious are being explored.
Contact!
Lars Åkerlund
larsakerlund[at]outlook.com
Lise-Lotte Norelius
l-l[at]comhem.se
Daniel Rozenhall
rozenhall[at]hotmail.com
Sten Backman
stenbackman@greatbigcontainer.com