WIEBKE SPIEKER: AN INTRODUCTION INTO THE LIFE AND WORK OF ÅKE PARMERUD

Wiebke Spieker will give a (short) overview about Åke Parmerud‘s biography in the first part of her talk. As a composer working in the electronic and electroacoustic music scene in Sweden since the late 1970s, the developments of the three institutions Fylkingen, EMS, and Sveriges Radio have been decisive for his biography. To get a complete overview about Parmerud‘s work, she will extend her considerations to the subjects ‚installations‘ and ‚stage art‘./// For his music and media art works Parmerud won several prizes, including the Giga-Hertz- and Walter-Fink-Prize awarded by the ZKM./// At the end she will shortly present the two works that won the Giga-Hertz-Prize (2008: La Vie Mécanique) and the Walter-Fink-Prize (2011: The Seventh Sense (together with Mireille Leblanc), and the comissioned works by these prizes.

Wiebke Spieker studied musicology and Scandinavien studies at University of Cologne (bachelor degree since 2012). Therefore she travelled to Sweden to study the history of electronic and electroacoustic music at the EMS Stockholm and to do an interview with Åke Parmerud in Gothenburg for her bachelor thesis. In October 2012 she proceeded with her studies in musicology for her upcoming master degree. Besides her studies, she is working in the field of concert organisation, mostly for contemporary music and (urban) sound art.

Video Documentary:
ZKM | Institute for Visual Media

Camera:   
Martina Rotzal, Fabian Selbach
Editing: Anna-Lena Vogel