Curriculum

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Merits

2012: Docent in artistic research in improvisation, Malmö Academy of Music, Lund University
2008: PhD degree in Music (artistic), Malmö Academy of Music, Lund University
Thesis: Improvisation, Computers, and Interaction: Rethinking Human-Computer Interaction Through Music
Advisors: Miller Puckette, Marcel Cobussen, Karsten Fundal & Leif Lönnblad

Education

1996-1997: Malmö Academy of Music, Lund University, Composition.
1992-1992: Banff Centre for the Arts, Post graduate course in music composition.
1990-1992: Rhythmic Conservatory, Copenhagen. Saxophone performance major.

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Appointments

The artistic appointments included here are only those that have been more long term such as larger commissions.

2022: Visiting scholar, CCRMA, Stanford University
Since 2019: Full professor in music, specialization in digital sound art at department of composition, conducting, and music theory at the Royal College of Music, Stockholm
Head of department of composition, electroacoustic music.
Head of artistic research, music and technology.
Teach composition, supervise PhD candidates and master’s theses.
2019-2021: Member of the assessment panel for the Swedish Research Council, artistic research
2017-2021: Supervisor and lecturer at NARP, the Norwegian research school for artistic research
2018-2021: Chair of study and research board at Royal College of Music, Stockholm
2016-2019: Assistant professor, Department of Composition and Conducting, Royal College of Music, Stockholm
Main responsibilities: Researcher and electroacoustic music composition teacher
2016: NCC/Dome of Visions: Audiovisual installation: När träden sover/subtraktion och Ur askan/Unverwüstbarkeit, collaboration with Ebba Bohlin.
Since 2016: Member of the artistic faculty board Ingesund School of Music, Karlstad University
2015-2017: Associate professor at University of Skövde, Computer game music program.
Main responsibilities: Head of program, teacher in composition and sound design, researcher
2015-2021: Member of the editorial board for Swedish Journal of Music Research
2014: IAC: Work for voice, electronics and Dan Tranh: Drinking
2012-2016: Coordinator for supervisor’s training, Konstnärliga forskarskolan (Artistic research academy), Stockholm
Main responsibilities: Develop research curriculum and supervisor’s training program
Since 2012: Member of the Research board at The Royal Swedish Academy of Music
2011: GIBCA • Gothenburg International Biennial for Contemporary Art: music for Better Life, collaboration with Isaac Julien.
2011: Ensemble Midt Vest: interactive production for chamber group, interactive electronics and video, Denmark.
2011-2016: Research fellow, Department of Composition and Conducting, Royal College of Music, Stockholm
Main responsibilities: Researcher and Ph.D. supervisor.
2011-2015: Associate Professor in artistic research at Malmö Academy of Music, Lund University.
Main responsibilities: Research, supervision and curriculum development
2009-2010: Postdoc researcher at Malmö Academy of Music, Lund University
2006-2008: Affiliate of Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
1999-2003: Malmö Academy of Music. In charge of the program for Jazz and Improvised MusicMain responsibilities: teaching saxophone, ensemble, improvisation, curriculum development and international relations.
1997-2001: Lecturer, Rhythmic Conservatory, Copenhagen.
Teaching responsibilities: theory, composition and big band instruction and conducting.

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Ongoing and recent research projects

2022-: Information Retrieval in Embedded Systems for Audio-visual Artistic Processes: new methods for musical interaction between participants to create a sensation of immersion in merged reality performances in musical performances.
2020-: Historically informed design of sound synthesis: exploring old technology to understand future directions (funded by Swedish Research Council).
2018-2022: Musical transformations: interdisciplinary project on the transformation of musical traditions (funded by Wallenberg foundation)

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Supervised doctoral students

Main supervisor

2011-2017: Kent Olofsson, composer, KMH, Stockholm
2011-2017: Anna Einarsson, composer, KMH, Stockholm
2016-2022: Harpreet Bansal, Violinist, Oslo, Norway

Secondary supervisor

2016-2021: Craig Wells, Composer, Bergen, Norway
2014-: Katt Hernandez, Violinist, Malmö, Sweden
2016-2020: Espen Aalberg, Drummer, Trondheim, Norway
2014-2020: Franacisca Skoogh, Pianist, Malmö, Sweden
2016-: Mattias Sköld, Composer, KTH/KMH, Stockholm
2020-: Mattias Petersson, Composer, LTH, Luleå, Sweden
2020-: Derek Holzer, Performer, KTH, Stockholm

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Teaching (courses in selection)

Electro-acoustic music composition (advanced):
Both one-to-one and group teaching and supervision of individual compositional projects including instrument building and installations.

Text seminar (third cycle):
Text seminar for artistic and music pedagogy PhDs in music.

Introduction to electro-acoustic music composition
Teaching music teacher students the basics of electro-acoustic music.

Theory and analysis (basic):
A music analysis and theory course in electro-acoustic music.

Thesis project course (advanced):
Teaching and supervising final thesis project for master’s students.

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Artistic works

(Below, the title is followed by setting, EA = electroacoustic, and in cases of collaboration, the group name.) See http://www.henrikfrisk.com/portfolio/ for documentation.

Concinnity - composition for saxopohone, electronics and large speaker configuration
Rain will Evaporate - sound installation
For Bill, Rising - EA
Image Schema - EA/video
Drinking - ensemble and EA
Pellow - installation
Improvisation over Mimionimas - EA
PVM - EA/live
Locomotion - EA/installation
Machinic Propositions - EA/video, Mongrel
Repetition Repeats all other Repetitions - guitar/EA
Bii - sound installation
Elle a Dansé, Il se Tourna - EA/video, Mongrel
Forgetting Vietnam - Film/The SixTones and Trinh T. Minh-ha
Opponsite of black noise - EA/live
Conceptualizing forgetness - saxophone/EA
The Mystic Writing Pad - ensemble/EA
Better Life - EA/Isaac Julien
Månens Gråa Ögon - ensemble
The Tranpsparent I - ensemble/EA
Improvisations for saxophone and electronics - saxophone/EA
Continuous Breach - ensemble/EA
Midsummer - EA
The Six Tones - emsemble/EA
etherSound - sound installation

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Performances (selection)

Solo performance upcoming concert in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Solo performance upcoming concert in Tallinn, Estonia.
Solo performance upcoming concert at Jazzcandy, Tokyo, Japan.
Dataton performance improvisation with historic Dataton instruments at Orpheus institute, Gent
Dataton performance improvisation with historic Dataton instruments at Frequenz festival, Kiehl
Concinnity, premiered at CCRMA, Stanford University
For Bill, Rising, performed at CCRMA, Stanford University
Elle a Dansé, performed at Transitions, CCRMA, Stanford
For Bill, Rising, premiered at Innovation in Music, Stockholm, Sweden
Rain will evaporate, sound installation at Ulvhälls Hallar, Strängnäs
Regular networked performances in various consteallations. See e.g. https://www.henrikfrisk.com/news/music/2022/12/10/online-performance/
Image Schema, performed at Musica Viva 2021, Lisbon, Portugal.
Image Schema, performed at KMH, Stockholm
Drinking, performed by Sonanza, KMH, Stockholm
Image Schema, performed at inSonic, ZKM, Germany
Pellow, installation at Tekniska museet, Stockholm.
Improvisation over Mimionimas, premiered at Pre-Nobel conference, Stockholm
Performance at Fylkingen, Stockholm
Performance at 2020 Joint Conference on AI Music Creativity.
Locomotion premiered at Between2019, Stockholm, Sweden
Concert at Intonal festival, Malmö with Kali Malone.
Performance of Machinic Propositions by Mongrel (Frisk/Elberling) at Music and Sound design in film/new media, Vilnius.
Concerts in Skandinavien och Baltikum with the group expEAR.
Machinic Propositions, Dare 2017, Gent, Belgium, Manchester, UK and Romans, France.
Repetition Repeats all other Repetitions, Artistic Research Pavillion, The Venice Biennale, 2017
Drinking - three versions of Drinkning at IAC, Malmö, Sweden
Bii and Elle a Dansé, concerts at KMH, Stockholm
Bii - Interactive sound installation at the inauguration of KMH, Stockholm
Elle a Dansé, SMC16, Hamburg
In a Silent Way - Concert in Göteborg.
expEAR - Concerts in Stockholm and Malmö with Drew Gress
Concerts in York (UK) and Sligo (Ireland).
expEAR - Concerts in Malmö and Uppsala.
lim - Concerts in Göteborg and Malmö.
Concerts in Lund, Malmö and Gothenburg.
Concerts in California.
Concerts with lim in Sweden and Denmark.
Hanoi Sound Stuff and tour in Vietnam.
Lennart Åberg Group featuring Peter Erskine, UKK, Uppsala.
Frisk/Frendin concert, Musik i Halland.
Stroman/Jönsson group, London, UK, and Sweden.
KOPAorchestra on tour, Sweden and Denmark
International session on artistic research, Malmö.
KOPAorchestra on tour, Sweden
Stroman/Jönsson Vocal project feat. Lena Willemark, KOPAfestival, Lund
Samarbete med Isaac Julien, Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art
Kalvfestivalen, Kalv, Sweden
Summerfestival, Ensebmle Midt Vest, Herning, Denmark
Integra Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark
re:New festival, Copenhagen
Repetition Repeats…in Gent, Bruxelles
Frisk / Beirach / Mogensen trio, turné in Sweden and Denmark
EarZoom festival, Lubljana, Slovenia.
The Six Tones concert at Green Space Festival, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Performance of Anne LeBaron’s cyberopera Sucktion
Premiere of the 10-piece band Henrik Frisk’s Pli at Kopasetic Festival, Malmö, Sweden.
Performances of Continuous Breach at Copenhagen and Aarhus jazz festivals.
etherSound in Stockholm at Nybrokajen 11.
performances in Malmö and Lund med lim.
Tour in Sweden and Denmark med The Six Tones
Performances med lim and Marc Ducret.
ICMC Copenhagen
Performances med Stefan Östersjö (guitar) in Vietnam, China, USA, UK and Sweden.
Performances in Sweden and USA in duo med Per-Anders Nilsson (laptop).
Performances in Sweden, Iceland, USA, Canada and Germany in duo med Henrik Frendin (viola).
Tour in Mexico.
ICMC, Gothenburg, Sweden
ICMC, Habana, Cuba
Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival, New York. Michael Formanek Northern Exposure.
Scandinavian tour as well as New York performances. Michael Formanek Northern Exposure.
Several installations and performances in Scandinavia, Germany and Bellarus with Swedish visual artist Stefan Lundgren.
Tour and recordings with Blue Pages, nominated Swedish Jazz Group of the Year.
Tours and recordings with pianist Richie Beirach.
Swedish tour with David Liebman.
Montreux International Jazz Festival. The Orchestra

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Publications

2023: S. Östersjö, H. Frisk, D. Hebert, and T. T. Nguyên. Shared Listenings: Methods for Transcultural Musicianship and Research. Elements: 21st Century Practice. https://tinyurl.com/yhfx4dhm. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2023
2023: H. Frisk. “Exploring an ethics of instruments”. In: Vintage Materialities in Music. Orpheus Institute, Gent. June 2023
2023: H. Frisk. “On the complexities of ethics in artistic practices”. In: Ethics in Artistic Research. In review. Routledge, 2023
2023: H. Frisk. “Sound intuition”. In: Journal of Sonic Studies (2023). In review.
2023: S. Pauletto, R. Selfridge, J. Hölling, A. Holzapfel, and H. Frisk. “Connecting Sound Design Future with Historical Creative Practices: Developing Digital Tools by Modelling Historical Sound Effects”. In: Forum Acousticum 2023. 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association. 2023
2023: R. Lindell and H Frisk. “The Unfinder: Finding and reminding in electronic music”. In: Proceedings of CMMR 2023. CMMR. 2023
2021: H. Frisk. “L’improvisation et le moi : écouter l’autre”. In: PaaLabRes 3 (2021). Online publication: http://www.paalabres.org/paalabres-2021f-faire-tomber-les-murs/
2021: D Holzer, A Holzapfel, and H Frisk. “Sounds of Futures Passed: Media Archaeology and Design Fiction as NIME Methodologies”. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. Shanghai, China, June 2021. doi: 10.21428/92fbeb44.b368bcd5. url: https://nime.pubpub.org/pub/20nimes
2021: Henrik Frisk, Sandra Pauletto, Benoit Baudry, Claudio Panariello Thomas Durieux, Erik Gandini, Erik Gustafsson, and Roberto Bresin. “Sonifying Invisible Computer Processes”. In: 13th conference on Creativity & Cognition: "Creativity, craft, and design". SIGCHI. ACM, Venice, 2021
2021: Henrik Frisk, Stefan Östersjö, David Hebert, and Nguyen Thanh Thuy. “Studio Saigon: Telematic Performance and Recording Technologies in Light of the Covid-19 Pandemic”. In: The Urban Research Plaza’s 18th Urban Culture Forum. Urban Research Plaza, Bankok, Thailand, 2021
2020: Henrik Frisk. “Aesthetics, Interaction and Machine Improvisation”. In: Organised Sound 25.1 (2020), pp. 33–40. doi: 10.1017/S135577181900044X
2019: H. Frisk and A. Elberling. “Machinic propositions: artistic practice and deterritorialization”. In: Aberrant nuptials: Deleuze and Artistic Research 2. Ed. by P. Guidici and P. de Assis. Orpheus Institute Series. Leuven University Press, Leuven, 2019
2019: H. Frisk and T. T. Nguyen. “Found in translation”. In: Seismograf (2019). issn: 2245-4705. url: https://seismograf.org/fokus/sonic-argumentation-i/frisk_thuy
2019: F. Skoogh and H. Frisk. “Performance values-an artistic research perspective on music performance anxiety in classical music”. In: Journal for Research in Arts and Sports Education 3.1 (2019)
2018: H. Frisk. “ArtDoc - An Experimental Archive and a Tool for Artistic Research”. In: Music Technology with Swing. Ed. by Aramaki M., Davies M., Kronland-Martinet R., and Ystad S. Vol. CMMR 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 11265. Springer, Cham, 2018
2017: H. Frisk. “The archive that writes itself”. In: Swedish Journal of Music Research 99 (2017), pp. 37–59
2016: H. Frisk and A. Elberling. “Machinic propositions”. In: Dare 2017. Orpheus Institute, Gent. 2017
2016: H. Frisk. “Hell is full of musical amateurs, but so is heaven”. In: Seismograf (May 2017). http://seismograf.org/fokus/composer-performer
2016: H. Frisk. “Vandrande ljud”. In: Nutida musik 261-262 (2016)
2015: H. Frisk. “A Marxist view on the theory/practice divide”. In: Festschrift to Cecilia Hultberg. Ed. by P-H. Holgersson and J-O. Gullö. KMH publishing, 2015
2015: H. Frisk, K. Johansson, and Å. Lindberg-Sand. “Acts of Creation - Introduction”. In: Acts of Creation: Thoughts on artistic research supervision. Ed. by H. Frisk, K. Johansson, and Å. Lindberg-Sand. Symposion, 2015
2014: H. Frisk. “Thinking in Practice”. In: Acts of Creation: Thoughts on artistic research supervision. Ed. by H. Frisk, K. Johansson, and Å. Lindberg-Sand. Symposion, 2015
2014: Henrik Frisk. “Improvisation and the self: to listen to the other”. In: Soundweaving: Writings on Improvisation. Ed. by F. Schroeder and M. Ó hAodha. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014
2013: H. Frisk, C. Coessens, and S. Östersjö. “Repetition, resonance and discernment”. In: Artistic Experimentation in Music. Ed. by D. Crispin and B Gilmore. Orpheus Institute Series, Gent, 2014
2013: H. Frisk and S. Östersjö, eds. (Re)Thinking Improvisation: artistic explorations and conceptual writing. Lund University Press, 2013
2013: H. Frisk and S. Östersjö. “(Re)Thinking improvisation: from Individual to Political Listening”. In: (Re)Thinking Improvisation: artistic explorations and conceptual writing. Ed. by H. Frisk and S. Östersjö. Lund University Press, 2013. Chap. 0, pp. 7–18
2013: Henrik Frisk. “The (un)necessary Self”. In: (Re)Thinking Improvisation: artistic explorations and conceptual writing. Ed. by H. Frisk and S. Östersjö. Lund University Press, 2013. Chap. 5, pp. 143–56
2013: Henrik Frisk and Stefan Östersjö. “Beyond Validity: claiming the legacy of the artist-researcher”. In: Swedish Journal of Music Research 2013 (2013), pp. 41–63
2012: H. Frisk. “Kuba 2001: musik, politik och den sociala dimensionen”. In: If I were a Drongo bird. Ed. by Peter Berry. Lunds Universitet - ForMuLär, 2013
2011: H. Frisk. “Time and reciprocity in improvisation: on the aspect of in-time systems in improvisation with and on machines.” In: ArtFutures - Current issues in higher arts education, ELIA (2011)
2011: H. Frisk and S. Östersjö. “The Needle’s Eye: Två konstnärliga disputationer.” In: VR, KFOU (2011)
2011: Jamie Bullock and Henrik Frisk. “The Integra Framework for Rapid Modular Audio Application Development”. In: Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference 2011. ICMA. Huddersfield, GB, 2011
2010: Henrik Frisk and Henrik Karlsson. “Time and Interaction: Research through non-visual arts and media”. In: The Routledge Companion to Research in the Arts. Ed. by M. Biggs and H. Karlsson. Routledge, 2010. Chap. 16, pp. 277–92
2009: Jamie Bullock and Henrik Frisk. “An object oriented model for the representation of temporal data in the Integra framework.” In: Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference 2009. ICMA, 2009
2009: Henrik Frisk. “Improvisation, Computers, and Primary Process: Why improvise with computers?” In: International Magazine for Music New Sound (2009)
2008: Jamie Bullock, Henrik Frisk, and Lamberto Coccioli. “Sustainability of ‘Live Electronic’ Music in the Integra Project”. In: The 14th IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference Proceedings. IEEE. Ajaccio, Corsica, 2008
2007: Jamie Bullock and Henrik Frisk. “libIntegra: A System for Software-Independent Multimedia Module Description and Storage”. In: Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference 2007. ICMA. Copenhagen, Denmark, 2007
2007: Henrik Frisk. “Interactive systems in improvisation and composition. A work in progress.” In: Dutch Journal of Music Theory (2007)
2006: H. Frisk and S. Östersjö. “Negotiating the Musical Work. An empirical study”. In: Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference 2006. ICMA. San Francisco, Calif.: Computer Music Assoc., 2006, pp. 242–9
2006: H. Frisk and S. Östersjö. “Negotiating the Musical Work. An empirical study on the inter-relation between composition, interpretation and performance”. In: Proceedings of EMS -06, Beijing. Terminology and Translation. Electroacoustic Music Studies. EMS, 2006. url: http://www.ems-network.org/spip.php?article245 (visited on 11/29/2009)
2005: Henrik Frisk and Miya Yoshida. “New Communications Technology in the Context of Interactive Sound Art: an empirical analysis”. In: Organised Sound 10.2 (2005), pp. 121–7

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Recordings (selection)

The Six Tones, TBA, Remixes of Vietnamese popular music, in production
The Six Tones, Vong Co, TBA, in production
expEAR and Drew Gress, Vesper, Kopasetic Prod.
Maggi Olin - Transatlantic Connection, Live,
Hanoi New Music Festival Ensemble 2013, Being Together, Setola di Maiale
lim, Disembodied, Kopasetic Prod.
The Six Tones, Signal in Noise, dB Productions (double CD)
(Re)Thinking Improvisation, artistic explorations, Lund University Press (double CD)
Stefan Ostersjo, Strandlines, dB Productions
lim, lim with Marc Ducret, Kopasetic Prod.
Scandinavian Electroacoustic Music, Spanning, ChamberSound
Henrik Frisk & Peter Nilsson, etherSound, Kopasetic Prod.
lim and Marc Ducret, KOPAlectric, Kopasetic Prod.
lim, SuperLim, Kopasetic Prod.
New Century Series, Volume 17, MMC.
David Liebman Big Band, Beyond the line, OmniTone
Viola con Forza, Henrik Frendin, Phono Suecia.
The Orchestra plays Jakob Riis, In Absence of Mind, Cope Records
lim, lim, dB Productions
Fixerad Anarki, Fixerad Anarki, dB Productions
NoBass, Hello World, LJ Records
Expressions, Henrik Frisk/Richie Beirach, Hornblower Recordings
The Orchestra, Noxx, capo
The Orchestra, SmokeOut, dB Productions
Blue Pages, Blue Pages, Caprice Records
Beijbom/Kroner Big Band, Live in Copenhagen, Four Leaf Clover
Henrik Frisk, Inventions of Solitude, Hornblower Recordings
The Orchestra, Not as softly as…, MusicMecca

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Presentations (selection)

2023: Exploring an ethics of instruments, Music an materialities, Gent
2021: Music and knowledge, lecture for Swedish television (https://urplay.se/program/222682-ur-samtiden-lat-livet-svanga-musiken-och-kunskapen-den-konstnarliga-forskningens-potential)
2021: Sounds of Futures Passed: Media Archaeology and Design Fiction as a NIME Methodology, NIME 2021.
2021: Ethics in artistic research, panel participation, Lund University, Sweden.
2021: Studio Saigon: Telematic Performance and Recording Technologies in Light of the Covid-19 Pandemic, Urban Culture Research Forum, Bankok, Thailand
2021: Key note, Is the Virtual Real? - Musical Communities in the 21st Century, Bergen, Norway
2021: Identity formation through music in diaspora, Musikforskning idag, Göteborg, Sweden.
2021: How can AR inform Learning & Teaching (panel), Artistic Research-based Music Education, AEC, Brussels, Belgium
2020: Networked Performance in Intercultural Music Creation, Music in the Age of Streaming, Piteå, Sweden
2020: Networked Performance in Intercultural Music Creation, PIGVIS 2020, Bangkok, Thailand
2020: Approaches to transcultural dialogue through stimulated recall., Swedish Research Council conference
2020: Intercultural Collaboration through Networked Performance, Nordic Network for Music Education, Bergen, Norway
2020: Research as Education, Scandinavian conference on research based education, Tromsö, Norway
2019: Machinic propositions - narrative interaction between sound and image, Music and sound design in film and new media, Vilnius (Keynote)
2018: ArtDoc - an experimental archive and a tool for artistic research, Conference at KTH, Stockholm, Sweden
2017: Artistic research methodology, NARP, Norway
2017: Articulations of supervision in artistic research, Bergen, Norway

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Related Professional Experience (in selection)

2013: Music chair for SMC 2023, Stockholm
2019-2020: Member of assessment committee for VR, Swedish Research Council
2019: Orgnized international festival/conference on music and technology: Between 2019
2019-: Member of the board for NAVET, KMH-KTH research collaboration
2018-: Researcher in EASTN-DC (European Art, Science and Technology Network - Digital Creativity) which organizes events, workshop and concerts with the general goal of supporting digital creativity in gneral.
2017-: Curator for concert series of electroacoustic music at KMH.
2017: Organizer of SMC-Sweden
Since 2016: Member of the editorial board for Swedish Journal of Music Research
2013: Co music-chair for SMC 2013, produced three concerts and a total of 30 works for 26 loudspeakers