List of publications
2024
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Frisk, H. (2024). Sound intuition. Journal of Sonic Studies, 26.
2023
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Frisk, H. (2023, June). Exploring an ethics of instruments. Vintage Materialities in Music.
2021
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Holzer, D., Holzapfel, A., & Frisk, H. (2021, June). Sounds of Futures Passed: Media Archaeology and Design Fiction as NIME Methodologies. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. https://doi.org/10.21428/92fbeb44.b368bcd5This paper provides a study of a cooperative learning workshop which invited composers, musicians, and designers to investigate electronic sound instruments from the history of the Royal College of Music in Stockholm (KMH) and EMS Elektronmusikstudion in Stockholm. The workshop applied Media Archaeology methods towards analyzing one particular instrument from the past, the Dataton System 3000, and Design Fiction methods towards imagining several speculative instruments of the future. Each section revealed very specific utopian ideas surrounding the design of sound instruments. Here, we lay out the intellectual, material, and social conditions of the workshop, along with a selection of the workshop’s outcomes, and some reflections on their significance for the NIME community. By presenting this method-in-progress, our hope is to inspire dialog around the premise that the linked examination of historical electronic sound technology’s affordances and ethics may bear rich fruit for contemporary instrument design practices.
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Frisk, H., Pauletto, S., Baudry, B., Thomas Durieux, C. P., Gandini, E., Gustafsson, E., & Bresin, R. (2021). Sonifying Invisible Computer Processes. 13th Conference on Creativity & Cognition: "Creativity, Craft, and Design".
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Frisk, H. (2021). L’improvisation et le moi : écouter l’autre. PaaLabRes, 3.
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Frisk, H., Östersjö, S., Hebert, D., & Thuy, N. T. (2021). Studio Saigon: Telematic Performance and Recording Technologies in Light of the Covid-19 Pandemic. The Urban Research Plaza’s 18th Urban Culture Forum.
2020
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Frisk, H. (2020). Aesthetics, Interaction and Machine Improvisation. Organised Sound, 25(1), 33–40. https://doi.org/10.1017/S135577181900044XDeparting from the artistic research project Goodbye Intuition (GI) hosted by the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo, this article discusses the aesthetics of improvising with machines. Playing with a system such as the one described in this article, with limited intelligence and no real cognitive skills, will obviously reveal the weaknesses of the system, but it will also convey part of the preconditions and aesthetic frameworks that the human improviser brings to the table. If we want the autonomous system to have the same kind of freedom we commonly value in human players’ improvisational practice, are we prepared to accept that it may develop in a direction that departs from our original aesthetical ambitions? The analyses is based on some of the documented interplay between the musicians in a group in workshops and laboratories. The question of what constitutes an ethical relationship in this kind of improvisation is briefly discussed. The aspect of embodiment emerges as a central obstacle in the development of musical improvisation with machines.
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Östersjö, S., Frisk, H., & Hebert, D. (2020). Musical Transformations: Networked Performance in Intercultural Music Creation. IS THE VIRTUAL REAL? Musical Communities in the 21st Century PGVIS 2020.
2019
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Frisk, H., & Nguyen, T. T. (2019). Found in translation. Seismograf. https://seismograf.org/fokus/sonic-argumentation-i/frisk_thuy
2018
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Frisk, H. (2018). ArtDoc - An Experimental Archive and a Tool for Artistic Research. In A. M., D. M., K.-M. R., & Y. S. (Eds.), Music Technology with Swing: Vol. CMMR 2017 (Number 11265). Springer, Cham.
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Frisk, H., & Elberling, A. (2018). Machinic Propositions: Artistic Practice and Deterritorialisation. In J. Quaresma & F. Rosa Dias (Eds.), INVESTIGAÇÃO EMARTES: A necessidade das ideias artísticas.
2017
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Frisk, H. (2017). The archive that writes itself. Swedish Journal of Music Research, 99, 37–59.
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Frisk, H. (2017). Varför interaktiv ? In M. Bunnskog (Ed.), Compoz. Audiorama.
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Frisk, H., & Elberling, A. (2017). Machinic propositions. Dare 2017.
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Frisk, H. (2017). ArtDoc - an Experimental Archive and a Tool for Artistic Research.
2016
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Frisk, H. (2016). Vandrande ljud. Nutida Musik, 261-262.
2015
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Frisk, H. (2015). Thinking in Practice. In H. Frisk, K. Johansson, & Å. Lindberg-Sand (Eds.), Acts of Creation: Thoughts on artistic research supervision. Symposion.
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Frisk, H. (2015). A Marxist view on the theory/practice divide. In P.-H. Holgersson & J.-O. Gullö (Eds.), Festschrift to Cecilia Hultberg. KMH publishing.
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Frisk, H., Johansson, K., & Lindberg-Sand, Å. (2015). Acts of Creation - Introduction. In H. Frisk, K. Johansson, & Å. Lindberg-Sand (Eds.), Acts of Creation: Thoughts on artistic research supervision. Symposion.
2014
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Brunson, B., & Frisk, H. (2014). Building for the Future: Research and Innovation in KMH’s new facilities. SMC Sweden 2014: Bridging Science, Art, and Industry.
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Frisk, H. (2014). Teknik och känsla. In Aftonbladet.
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Frisk, H., & Johansson, K. (2014). On the development of a dynamic research seminar.
2013
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Frisk, H. (2013). The (un)necessary Self. In H. Frisk & S. Östersjö (Eds.), (Re)Thinking Improvisation: artistic explorations and conceptual writing (pp. 143–156). Lund University Press.
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Frisk, H., & Östersjö, S. (Eds.). (2013). (Re)thinking Improvisation: Artistic explorations and conceptual writing. Lund University.
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Frisk, H., & Östersjö, S. (2013). In and Through Music: Project report to VR.
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Frisk, H. (2013). Review of Kim Hedås’ Linjer. In VR årsbok i KFoU. VR.
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Frisk, H. (2013). Kuba 2001: musik, politik och den sociala dimensionen. In P. Berry (Ed.), If I were a Drongo bird. Lunds Universitet - ForMuLär.
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Frisk, H., & Östersjö, S. (Eds.). (2013). (Re)Thinking Improvisation: artistic explorations and conceptual writing. Lund University Press.
2011
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Frisk, H. (2011). Time and reciprocity in improvisation: on the aspect of in-time systems in improvisation with and on machines. ArtFutures - Current Issues in Higher Arts Education, ELIA.
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Frisk, H., & Östersjö, S. (2011). Music for a Better Life. Improvisation.With its urgent experimental narrative and exquisite imagery, Better Life is a film with immediate appeal. Thematically, it has many links to our own artistic practice, but our first contact with the film raised several questions concerning the form for our collaboration with Isaac Julien. Firstly: isn’t this a completed work? Where is the scope for new music to change or complement the perspective for this elegantly formulated totality? And how could the ambient sounds, the voice-over text and existing music soundtrack be incorporated in our adaptation? In contrast to the notion of a fixed work, defined by one solitary (usually male) originator – a concept that is linked in western art music to the score’s authoritarian definition of the work’s identity – music, as a socially defined phenomenon, can be a platform where we create shared, common cultural meanings. The various levels at which we create, interpret and share the experience of musical “works” forms the basis for an understanding of what Umberto Eco calls a “work in movement”. Perhaps the most important change that has taken place in this new understanding of the musical work is the shift in focus from the score and the fixed work to the encounter with a diversity of listeners. Our meeting with Isaac in London last June developed into an opening and a natural continuation of our own ongoing project. He immediately declared that he was less interested in finalised works (products) than in the development of a work over time, through new versions. This gave us a common platform that we could use to approach the various audio and visual elements of the film as being in part mutually independent. The music of a scene could be replaced by new sounds, while environmental sounds could be kept or processed; concrete sounds as abstract, musical units.
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Frisk, H., & Östersjö, S. (2011). The Needle’s Eye: Två konstnärliga disputationer. VR, KFOU.
2010
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Frisk, H., & Karlsson, H. (2010). Time and Interaction: Research through non-visual arts and media. In M. Biggs & H. Karlsson (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Research in the Arts (pp. 277–292). Routledge.
2009
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Cobussen, M., Frisk, H., & Weijland, B. (2009). The Field of Musical Improvisation. Konturen, 2.
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Bullock, J., & Frisk, H. (2009). An object oriented model for the representation of temporal data in the Integra framework. Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference 2009.
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Frisk, H. (2009). Improvisation, Computers, and Primary Process: Why improvise with computers? International Magazine for Music New Sound.
2008
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Bullock, J., Frisk, H., & Coccioli, L. (2008). Sustainability of ‘Live Electronic’ Music in the Integra Project. The 14th IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference Proceedings.In this paper we describe a new XML file format and a database schema designed for the storage of performance data and meta-data relating to live electronic music. We briefly describe the architecture of the Integra environment, and give examples of the hierarchical modelling of Integra classes. The separation of module definition, module instance data and module implementation data is presented as one of the key components of the Integra system. The libIntegra library is proposed as a means for supporting the file formats in target applications.
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Frisk, H. (2008). Improvisation, Computers, and Interaction: Rethinking Human-Computer Interaction Through Music. Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts, Lund University.
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Frisk, H. (2008). Improvisation, Computers, and Interaction: Rethinking Human-Computer Interaction Through Music. Lund University Press.
2007
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Bullock, J., & Frisk, H. (2007). libIntegra: A System for Software-Independent Multimedia Module Description and Storage. Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference 2007.In this paper we describe a new XML file format and a database schema designed for the storage of performance data and meta-data relating to live electronic music. We briefly describe the architecture of the Integra environment, and give examples of the hierarchical modelling of Integra classes. The separation of module definition, module instance data and module implementation data is presented as one of the key components of the Integra system. The libIntegra library is proposed as a means for supporting the file formats in target applications.
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Frisk, H. (2007). Interactive systems in improvisation and composition. A work in progress. Dutch Journal of Music Theory.
2006
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Frisk, H., & Östersjö, S. (2006). Negotiating the Musical Work. An empirical study on the inter-relation between composition, interpretation and performance. Proceedings of EMS -06, Beijing. Terminology and Translation. http://www.ems-network.org/spip.php?article245
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Frisk, H., & Östersjö, S. (2006). Negotiating the Musical Work. An empirical study. Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference 2006, 242–249.
2005
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Frisk, H., & Yoshida, M. (2005). New Communications Technology in the Context of Interactive Sound Art: an empirical analysis. Organised Sound, 10(2), 121–127.In this article we discuss the notion of "interaction", "participation" and "the public" in artistic work, specifically within the context of the exhibition The Invisible Landscapes (curated by Miya Yoshida, Malmo Konstmuseum, 2003) and etherSound (created by Henrik Frisk), a sound installation displayed in that exhibition. In this work the audience is invited to participate in the creation of new sound events by sending text messages from their mobile phones. Thus, our discussion is focused on the space and the mode of participation opened up by new communication technology. Based on our experiences of that project, we introduce and explain what we believe are relations of creative production and a different kind of creativity that may emerge from active interaction. We also attempt to describe what we believe an implementation of active public participation can lead to. We are combining two modes of thinking in this article; one is inspired by a discourse of cultural theories and the other by reflection on our experience of the event. The latter is, by definition, rather subject centred and expansive based on individual observation. We examine and analyse the phenomenon of "participation" whilst playing etherSound as a process of creative production, and seek to reflect upon the power of the co-operative practice and its relation to participation and creativity.