Lars Åkerlund
- Year of birth, place
- 1953, Solna, Sweden
- lives and works in
- Stockholm, Sweden
- Role at the ZKM
- Guest Artist
- Institute / Department
- Institute for Music and Acoustics
- At the ZKM
Februar - März 2014
- Biography
Lars Åkerlund is a sound artist and composer/performer of electronic as well as electroacoustic music. With a classical training, he also works in the music underground scene; he founded bands such as P.I.T.T. (among others, with Zbigniew Karkowski) and the Lucky People Center (among others, with Johan Söderberg) and was member of the Mental Hackers. He studied classical guitar at the Conservatorio del Liceo, Barcelona, classical guitar and electroacoustic music at the Royal College of Music, Stockholm, as well as musicology at the University of Stockholm. Åkerlund works and lives in the studio with computers, controllers and live electronic equipment such as an amplified monochord.
[2014]
