EMS 30 Years

The Electronic Music Studio – 30 years

In 1964 the board of the Swedish Radio decided to build Sweden’s first professional electronic music studio. This triple CD was released to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the studio, with the aim to reflect the different temperaments of the composers working in the EMS studios throughout the years.

This is not a full-length portrait of EMS, as one of the criteria of selection was to publish material that was not previously available on CD.

The history of EMS is also portrayed in two interesting essays, one of them by Knut Wiggen, creator of the studio and its first Director, and the other by another former Director and a pioneer of Swedish electro-acoustic music, Lars-Gunnar Bodin.

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    • CD 1
      • 1.
        Semicolon; Seance 4 Music: Lars Gunnar Bodin
        10'27
      • 2.
        Out of sight Music: Åke Parmerud
        10'54
      • 3.
        Klippt Hyland Music: Christian Bock text=Christian Bock
        1'16
      • 4.
        Antiphonae Music: Wlodzimierz Kotonski Text: Wlodzimierz Kotonski
        12'06
      • 5.
        Sixty seconds Music: Jonas Söderberg Text: Jonas Söderberg
        15'03
      • 6.
        L'aube des flammes Music: Tamás Ungváry Text: Tamás Ungváry
        13'45
    • CD 2
      • 1.
        Movements I Music: Peter Lundén Text: Peter Lundén
        9'10
      • 2.
        Carpe Diem Music: Anders Blomqvist Text: Anders Blomqvist
        13'28
      • 3.
        Circulos fosferescentes en fondo negro Music: Ricardo Mandolini
        8'37
      • 4.
        Musique Douze Music: Ragnar Grippe Text: Ragnar Grippe
        13'51
      • 5.
        Anchorings/Arrows Music: Erik Mikael Karlsson Text: Erik Mikael Karlsson
        13'18
      • 6.
        Sequence in blue Music: Rolf Enström
        9'10
      • 7.
        Bosse i bitar Music: Christian Bock Text: Christian Bock
        3'55
    • CD 3
      • 1.
        Der Raum Traum Music: Patrick Kosk
        7'36
      • 2.
        Tapestry 2 Music: William Brunson
        9'01
      • 3.
        Off the lip Music: Sten-Olof Hellström Text: Sten-Olof Hellström
        11'12
      • 4.
        Cadena Music: Bo Rydberg Text: Bo Rydberg
        9'18
      • 5.
        Crypt with table and chairs Music: Ákos Rózmann Text: Ákos Rózmann
        37'56
  • Total playtime 212'23

Compact Disc // CAP 21471 // Electro Acoustic // Releasedate: 1 January, 1994