Curriculum

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

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Education

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

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Appointments

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.
2018-2021: Chairman 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
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.
2011-2016: Research fellow, Department of Composition and Conducting, Royal College of Music, Stockholm
Aﬂliations: Norwegian Academy of Music, Karlstad University

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Ongoing research projects

2020-: Historically informed design of sound synthesis: exploring old technology to understand future directions (funded by Swedish Research Council).
2020-: Browser chance music: sonifying the invisible activities of a browser when browsing the web.
2018-: Musical transformations: interdisciplinary project on the transformation of musical traditions (funded by Wallenberg foundation)
2018-: EASTN-DC (European Art, Science and Technology Network - Digital Creativity): organizes events, workshop and concerts with the general goal of supporting digital creativity in gneral (funded by EC).
proposed: 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.

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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.
: Introduction to electro-acoustic music composition (advanced): 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 ﬀnal thesis project for master’s students.

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Publications (selection)

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: Derek Holzer, Andre Holzapfel, and Henrik 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 et al. “Sonifying Invisible Computer Processes”. In: 13th conference on Creativity & Cognition: "Creativity, craft, and design". Submitted for publication. SIGCHI. ACM, Venice, 2021
2021: Henrik Frisk et al. “Studio Saigon: Telematic Performance and Recording Technologies in Light of the Covid-19 Pandemic”. In: The Urban Research Plaza’s 18th Urban Culture Forum. http://www.urpbkk.com/urp/Forum.html. 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. et al. 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
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

Writings and reviews for Swedish newspapers and magazines (Aftonbladet, Svenska Dagbladet, Sydsvenska Dagbladet and Nutida Musik) and the Swedish National Radio. 1994-2000

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Presentations (selection)

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 ﬀlm 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)

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

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Discography (selection)

2021: The Six Tones, TBA, Remixes of Vietnamese popular music, in production
2021: The Six Tones, Vong Co, TBA, in production
2017: expEAR and Drew Gress, Vesper, Kopasetic Prod.
2015: Maggi Olin - Transatlantic Connection, Live,
2015: Hanoi New Music Festival Ensemble 2013, Being Together, Setola di Maiale
2014: lim, Disembodied, Kopasetic Prod.