Öyvind Fahlström
Öyvind Fahlström (São Paulo 1928 - Stockholm 1976) was sent from Brazil to Stockholm in 1939 and stayed, working after the war as a writer, critic and journalist. In 1953 he wrote a manifesto for concrete poetry. He moved to Paris in 1956 and then to New York, where games and popular culture entered his paintings, and in 1966 he took part in 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering. For Swedish Radio he made Birds in Sweden (1963) and the serial The Holy Torsten Nilsson (1966).
Oyvind Fahlstrom on the Air - Manipulating the World
Enclosed in a 336 pages book published by Sveriges Radios Förlag (ISBN: 91-522-1817-1). It is written in Swedish and English by Teddy Hultberg. The CD's were released by Fylkingen Records only together with the book. The book itself is enclosed in a slipcover. The Swedish texts on the recordings are translated into English in the book. "Birds In Sweden" (1963) was produced by Öyvind Fahlström in collaboration with sound engineer Erik Winlöf at the Swedish Radio studios in the second half of 1962…