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Ellen Arkbro

Ellen Arkbro is a Swedish composer, sound artist and musician working with precison-tuned harmony in frameworks such as just intonation and meantone temperament. Having primarily composed for and performed on pipe organ, Arkbro's work also includes pieces for many other forms of instrumentation, including work for combinations of acoustic instruments and sound synthesis. In these instances, Arkbro makes use of algorithmic sound synthesis to enhance the harmonic textures of acoustic instruments

Ellen Arkbro is a Swedish composer, sound artist and musician working with precison-tuned harmony in frameworks such as just intonation and meantone temperament. Having primarily composed for and performed on pipe organ, Arkbro's work also includes pieces for many other forms of instrumentation, including work for combinations of acoustic instruments and sound synthesis. In these instances, Arkbro makes use of algorithmic sound synthesis to enhance the harmonic textures of acoustic instruments

Fonstret N.6 - In Tune (Magazine)
Fonstret is a project of Stockholm’s Edition Festival for Other Music focused on publishing new works and surfacing material from the festival’s archives. Printed volume of conversations and essays published on the occasion of the Sixth Edition Festival for Other Music.
Sounds While Waiting
Sounds While Waiting documents the latest organ works by composer and musician Ellen Arkbro – following her phenomenal debut, 2017's For Organ And Brass, and the more recent Chords. Recorded at a centuries-old church in Unnaryd, Sweden in June 2020, these pieces reveal the enchanting qualities of sustained harmonic sound, how patterns of listening dissolve and emerge as textured space. On opening track "Changes," long radiant tones ebb and flow like divine breaths, while "Leaving Dreaming" build…
For Organ And Brass
** 300 copies only**  For Organ And Brass is comprised of two works by the Stockholm-based composer Ellen Arkbro. Both works focus on tuning, intonation, and harmonic modulation. In previous projects, Arkbro composed for early music ensembles, wrote a series of durational pieces utilizing synthetic tones and processed guitars, and, most recently, presented a work lasting 26 days at the Stockholm Concert Hall. For Organ And Brass looks back to Arkbro's studies in just intonation with La Monte You…
I Get Along Without You Very Well
Ellen Arkbro and Johan Graden embody the limitless curiosity and fearless innovation of the Swedish and Berlin new music scenes they inhabit. Arkbro is a composer and musician whose work has been presented around the globe at prestigious institutions such as the Barbican in London, GRM in Paris and the Kölner Philharmonie in Köln. Graden is one of Sweden’s most sought-after pianists, moving freely between classical music and the European contemporary jazz scene. Currently living in Amman Jordan,…
Chords
With ‘Chords’, the Stockholm-based musician and composer Ellen Arkbro returns to Subtext, following her acclaimed debut album ‘For Organ and Brass’. This new longplayer sees Arkbro adopt a more minimalist approach, focusing on the immediate qualities of sound and elegantly expanding the tonal capacities of acoustic instruments using precise, subtle synthesis. Composed of a carefully selected combination of tones, ‘Chords’ stretches, extends and obscures the timbral character of the instruments i…
Spacegirls
Hästköttskandalen is happy to announce the release of their debut vinyl record “Spacegirls”, 40 minutes of live improvised music recorded in a disbanded morgue and released on Fylkingen Records on February 16, 2015. The release concert is co-organized with Titwrench Stockholm and takes place at Fylkingen (Torkel Knutssonsgatan 2, Stockholm) on February 16th at 20:00.Hästköttskandalen (HKS) is an audiovisual quartet comprised of Swedish and American composers and musicians (Ellen Arkbro, Marta Fo…
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