Ragnar Grippe

Ragnar Grippe (born 1951 in Stockholm) is a Swedish composer working mainly in electroacoustic music, alongside orchestral, choral and stage works. He is known for Sand, an electronic album issued by the French label Shandar in 1977, and in Sweden for the theme he wrote for the Jönssonligan films. Grippe studied cello in Stockholm and in the early 1970s went to Paris to study with Pierre Schaeffer at the GRM. Sand was written to accompany an exhibition of sand paintings by the Indian artist Viswanadhan at Galerie Shandar.