Stefan Klaverdal

composer and sound artist blogging in both english and swedish www.stefanklaverdal.com

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New Album

New album with music by Stefan Klaverdal and Mats Edén: “annual growth rings“

The magic of the foliage and mixed forest is captured precisely in breathtakingly beautiful "among opening leaves" - Hanna Höglund, Sydsvenskan

"abscission (falling of leaves") [...] this gorgeous piece wraps the listener in auburn and gold.- a closer listen

I am in a bad mood today, but have finally found something that fits my feelings: the album by Edén and Klaverdal. - Håkan Engström, Sydsvenskan

https://open.spotify.com/album/34wVzvwf2AVGsxvHBNWqkc?si=3pR3WgVqRPGg6KvGg3Lhsg

 http://dynamik.se/agr/index.html

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My church music from 2018

During autumn 2018 I participated in the large Swedish festival Lund Sacred Contemporary Music Festival with a number of pieces for choir, string quartet, solo voices and electronics. The festival was the largest since some 40 years in Sweden and was organized in large part by Johan Magnus Sjöberg and Thomas Åberg in collaboration with organisations such as Musik i Syd and the Swedish church.

Here are some pieces that was perfomed live during the festival:

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My music in festival in Lund!

181005-07, all weekend, Lund, Sweden

Participating with no less than seven different pieces (one first performance!) in Lund Sacred Contemporary Music Festival:

Friday 17:00 (Allhelgonakyrkan) from The Sacred Family – string quartet and computer (LuKaS) Psalm – voice and small organ (Johan Sandberg and Nils Tykesson)

Friday 20:00 (Allhelgonakyrkan) Libera me (from Judas) – choir (Lunds Vokalensemble)

Friday 23:00 (Domkyrkan) Catharsis – choir (St Johannes kammarkör)

Saturday 13:00-16:00 (Domkyrkoforum) Ser du människa? – interactive sound installation

Saturday 20:00 (Allhelgonakyrkan) white as snow – electronic music and video

Sunday 15:00 (Allhelgonakyrkan) see darkness covers the earth – choir and cello (Lunds Vokalensemble, Mattias Rodrick)

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Dreams on the beach

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På upploppet

I höstas påbörjade jag en halvtidstjänst som kyrkomusiker. Det var ett vikariat där jag haft tre körer och en del spelningar, men det närmar sig nu sitt slut, i maj övergår jag till att vara fast anställd kyrkomusiker på kvartsfart istället med visst ansvar för det musikaliskt-konstnärliga arbetet i församlingen. Roligt !

Så här på upploppet har jag organiserat ett antal konserter, och nu när påsken och våren närmar sig har jag ett par uruppföranden och framföranden nära i tiden. De senaste tre helgerna har det varit olika slags konserter, bland annat en konsert med musikalsånger med min vuxenkör (fullsatt!), och den här helgen var det afternoon tea med konsert och sånger som symboliserade en kvinnas liv - fint tyckte jag.

Imorgon sjunger vuxenkören i gudstjänsten, och sen är det uruppförande med flöjt och piano på palmsöndagen, cellostycke på långfredagen, elektronisk musik på påsknatten, nyskriven musikal på påskdagen och så nytt till manskören som jag leder till och från två veckor senare. Lite tufft. Men också roligt.

Följ gärna med på församlingens hemsida!

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A quick birdsong recording from today.

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Hospital artist-in-residence

A while ago I was honoured to be appointed artist-in-residence at the hospital of Ängelholm. This is a very new (first ever) thing here in Sweden and no one really knew what I was supposed to do. I started by visiting the different parts of the rehab clinic where I am posted, to see what they where doing with the patients. This led to different interesting ideas and experiments that have since developed into various projects and potential artworks. For example, I have created new relaxing music for the physiotherapists, an interactive sensor gear, held concerts and created at least one video artwork. Furthermore I am working on two installations as well as some text-based pieces. But I think that the most important thing is the ideas and the talks I have held with the staff. I think that sometimes it is the ideas that you invoke that is the actual benefit of working with art, not the art itself. The ideas can be spread. The ideas can lead to new good things to people that I have never met. The ideas is what potentially can improve the world.

About the project in media: http://www.vi-tidningen.se/sveriges-forsta-sjukhuskompositor/

https://www.hd.se/2017-02-16/meditativ-musik-pa-sjukhuset

http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=4425&artikel=6631917

http://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/helsingborg/sveriges-forsta-sjukhuskompositor

(image above from Tidningen Vi)

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The Weave in Dhaka

This last week I have been i Dhaka, Bangladesh to plan for a future performance of The Weave (Den Stora Vävoperan) at Shilpakala Academy there, the National theatre. We have met with a lot of fantastically nice people and have been inspired and touched by the generosity and profesionalism among the Bangladeshi people.

On the 1st of December we performed a shortened preview version for an audience of mostly brands and factories, but also some NGOs. We were very touched by the emotional response from the audience!

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The Weave in Stockholm

Finally we made The Weave or The Large Weaving Opera in Stockholm. I must confess that I have been scared of the upcoming event when we were supposed to do the piece at Musikaliska or the old Royal Academy of Music, a building from 1877 (where the very first Nobel prize ceremony was held in 1901).

We had very little time for rehearsal, a new choir, uncertainties when it came to location for the rehearsals, and many other unknowns. Scary.

But, as it turned out, everyone still had the piece in their hearts and it was pure joy to make it sound again. The new choir was also a bit nervous about the whole thing, but turned out to be ambitious and hard working.

The rehearsal went well at Bredäng kulturskola who very generously let us be in their spaces, and when we came to Musikaliska I think we felt that we had it more or less in our hands. Anyway the fantastic personel at the place took great care of the production and we instantly felt at home.

On the day of the performance, instead of a nervous wreck, I think both myself and the ensemble felt confidence that this was going to work. On the dress rehearsal though, most things went really crazy but still the things didn’t make me think that we needed to rehearse more. And it turned out I was correct, as the performance went fantastically well and the audience (full house) was totally enthusiastic. Happy.

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Artist in Residence

I am appointed artist in redsiendce at the hospital in Ängelholm, where I’m going to do... well, I don’t know yet, but I will be working closely with the staff at the rehab team. Looking forward to start this november.

http://angelholm.lokaltidningen.se/konstn%C3%A4rliga-id%C3%A9er-ska-berika-sjukvaarden-/20160901/artikler/160909990/

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A film on music, mind and body. Collaboration between Stefan Klaverdal and Ann-Krestin Vernersson.

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The last few months have been really busy, it has been a lot of fun, but also a lot of work.

De Upplysta (The Enlightened) Malmö-based Theatre InSite works with site-specific interactive theatre. This was by far their largest set ever, covering an area of approx. 160000 sqm. De Upplysta was a sci-fi version of Joseph Conrads ”Heart of Darkness” and was an immersive 3 hours performance where my electronic and vocal music was present during the whole play. The actual play was something in-between theatre, performance and a dance piece. I am releasing some of the electronic music later this year as well as a score of the vocal music. Matthias Thorbjörnsson (dir) Maria Reihs (text), Emma Ribbing (dance) Peter Öberg, Elin Rusk, Gabriel Flores Jair (acting), Niclas Fransson, Ilkka Häikö (lights)

Får jag dö i din famn? (Can I die in your arms?) This was part of the project Mittemellan, where myself and film-maker Thomas Romlöv have interviewed some 20 people about their thoughts around existential and religious issues. Death being one of them. In this concert-talk we where joined by amazing singer Negar Zarassi. The prerecorded voices as well as the thoughts from the audience where interpreted and turned into music and video art in real time.   Upcoming performance in Gothenburg in september.

The spring also contained performances of The Little Weaving Opera, a guest performance at Allhelgona church in Lund and more. I was commissioned a small piece for the singing class at Mozarteum in Austria for the Almvqvist-Year and ”Herre Gud vad det är vackert” was successfully performed in january.

Upcoming: Teaching with Share Music Sweden Opera for children of ”Mitt Lyckliga Liv” by Rose Lagercrantz Hymn for the 500th anniversary of the city of Ängelholm The Large Weaving Opera in Stockholm Whatch www.stefanklaverdal.com for more!

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A song per day

For ten days I am currently releasing new ambient songs that are in fact related to a podcast I am doing on the subject of life, death, what it means to be human. Religion. The songs are supposed to be not too intruding but instead give you room to reflect and think about the large questions.

All songs are published at in ths playlist at soundcloud. The project is called “meditation”. Listen at https://soundcloud.com/stefan-klaverdal/sets/ambient-music

The podcast is in swedish and is available at www.enklafragor.se.

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New song out! Check the playist!

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A song per day

For ten days I am currently releasing new ambient songs that are in fact related to a podcast I am doing on the subject of life, death, what it means to be human. Religion. The songs are supposed to be not too intruding but instead give you room to reflect and think about the large questions.

All songs are published at in ths playlist at soundcloud. The project is called “meditation”. Listen at https://soundcloud.com/stefan-klaverdal/sets/ambient-music

The podcast is in swedish and is available at www.enklafragor.se.

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Uploaded the first episode of my small online composition class "Tiny Composition" on YouTube. It's been out on Vimeo for some time, but I've received numerous requests to put it on YouTube also. Will post the following episodes in the weeks to come.

This one gives tips on how to use numbers to create a melody.

Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzSgbVhS9Pc&index=1&list=PL_yMLMhCdYeuFc-6YgnY4Z3V1-4cIYMez

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Ambient Music

Ambient Songs. Various background, from remixes to purely original compositions. All music by Stefan Klaverdal

I made a playlist with some of my ambient music on Soundcloud. Listen! Share! Comment! What do you think?

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Ambient Guitar (short version)

This piece was composed originally to be the opening for a concert with new guitar music in Malmö, Sweden and was by then a very long piece of around 20 minutes, still very ambient. The concert eventu

A newly uploaded track on soundcloud - Ambient Guitar!