Åke Parmerud

Åke Parmerud is a Swedish composer, born in 1953, who has worked since the late 1970s in electroacoustic and instrumental music, multimedia, interactive installations and music for dance, video and film. He studied in Gothenburg with Rune Lindblad and also with Lars Gunnar Bodin, worked for many years at EMS in Stockholm, and won first prize at the Bourges festival in 1978 with Proximities. Parmerud worked with Anders Blomqvist and collaborated with the Danish group Boxiganga and the choreographers Pierre-Paul Savoie and Mireille Leblanc.