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Kristofer Svensson

Kristofer Svensson is a Swedish composer and kecapi-musician who writes for classical Asian and European instruments. His music is characterized by quietness, silence, stillness and frugality. He had the honor of studying with many great masters in many traditions; Sundanese music with Dody Satya Ekagustiman, Chinese gǔqín with Yung Hak-Chi, Japanese shakuhachi with Gunnar Jinmei Linder and composition with Mamoru Fujieda. His music has been performed by luminaries such as Quator Bozzini (CA), Mats Persson (SE), Hong Kong New Music Ensemble (HK) and Contemporaneous (US).

A WARM DAY IN AUGUST

I wanted the music to mingle unobtrusively with the sounds of the garden. By not creating a continuous web of sound with the instruments, as one normally would expect from music, and by always letting the music disappear into silence at unexpected places, my listening experience became that of a calm awareness of the entire field of sound around me. The sounds from the everyday become part of the music; an old man drove by on his bicycle and by the fountain were people playing games.