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STEN SANDELL Musician, Composer, Piano, voice, electronics, harmonium, organ
* Music between improvised music, contemporary music , jazz and rock music
Solo projects: piano/voice /organ/electronics - concerts, drama, dance, film
Sten Sandell Trio – contemporary jazz
bio. elektrika - voice and elektronik
Elektro-Botanik - Herman Müntzing/Sten Sandell
strandberg/sandell/thorman trio
Low dynamic orchestra,
improvised/composed music
Sten Sandell has collaborated with Sofia Jernberg, Ken Vandermark, Sören Runolf, Niklas Billström, Paal Nilssen-Love, Sverrir Gudjonsson, Axel Dörner, Matthias Bauer, Evan Parker, Chris Cutler, Michael Zerang, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Sainkho Namchylak, Carlos Zingaro, Mats Persson, Kristine Scholz, Jörgen Gassilewski, David Moss, Philipp Wachsmann, Sven-Åke Johansson, Carl-Axel Dominique, Anders Jormin, Kjell Nordeson, Simon Steensland, Johan Berthling, Fredrik Ljungkvist, Raymond Strid, Ellika Frisell, Mats Öberg, Morgan Ågren, Ivo Nilsson, Johan Petri, Peter Söderberg, Jukka Korpi, Karl Dunér, Gunnar Nehls, Björn Hellström, Peter Oskarson, Lars Wassrin, Magnus Florin, Staffan Göthe, Gunilla Röör, Lina Englund, Bo Samuelsson, Thomas Liljenberg, Emil Strandberg, Patric Thorman among others.
What the press have said about Sten Sandell’s music:
"I haven't heard a better piano record all year." (Bill Meyer in Signal to Noise magazine about solid musik)
"Något orginellare, både i fråga om sången och pianospelet, har jag hittills knappast stött på i vårt land" (Bengt Nordström)
"Sten Sandell..s solo was a festival highlight: absolute polyrhythmic directness (threes and twos overlaid like an absolute metronome!), startling vocal interjections and a sensational manipulation of energy." (John Corbett)
Selected works:
SÃ¥Vidare, "Live" (OM 1,1983)
Sten Sandell, "Damp" (Bauta Rec BAR 8502,1985)
SÃ¥Vidare, "In a body" (Bauta Rec BAR 8603,1987)
Sten Sandell, "Now or Never" (Bauta Rec BAR 8803,1988)
Mats Persson, Sten Sandell, Kristine Scholz, "Strings and Hammers for Fingers and Nails" (ALICE Musik ALCD 002,1990)
Gush med Sven-Ã…ke Johansson, "Tjo och Tjim" (Dragon Rec DRLP 192,1991)
Gush, "From Things To Sounds" (Dragon DRCD 204,1991)
Sten Sandell, "Music From A Waterhole" (ALICE Musik ALCD 005,1992)
"Songs Between Cities and Waterholes" (Bauta Rec 1994)
Sten Sandell
, frames (Bauta Rec BAR 9402,1994)
GUSH and Phil Wachsmann, "Gushwachs" (Bead Rec.1996)
Gush, "Live at Fasching" (Dragon DRCD 313, 1997)
Sten Sandell, Simon Steensland, "UNDER ÖKNAR" (UAE Disc 6 1997)
Sten Sandell, "Behind the chords" (LJ-rec, LJCD 5216 1998)
Stockholm Low Dynamic Orchestra (ALICE Musik 1999)
Gush, "Live in Tampere" (Dragon Rec. DRCD 327, 1999)
Sten Sandell, "sten & betong" (stenmusik STCD 9901, 1999)
t.i.k.s. (Transparent Information of the Klara Systems)
Sten Sandell/Björn Hellström/Arild Lagerkvist (CD-rom, 1999)
Sten Sandell/Sven-Ã…ke Johanssons, "Bahn und Boot" (algen rec. 2000)
Sven-Ã…ke Johanssons Kvintett (hatOLOGY 538, 2000)
"SOUNDS 1999" (blue tower rec. 2000)
berthling/ljungkvist/sandell (LJCD 5224, 2000)
Sten Sandell/Fred Lonberg-Holm/Michael Zerang, "Disappeared" (nuscope CD 1009, 2001)
Sten Sandell, "bio. elektrika" (LJCD 5226, 2001)
Jörgen Gassilewski/Tommy Björk/Sten Sandell"Du" ALCD 025
Sten Sandell Trio
, "standing Wave" (SOFA 504, 2001)
Sten Sandell, "solid musik" - solopiano (nuscope rec. CD 10132002)
“Bilderna vandrar igenom oss som vågor genom vatten” Willy Kyrklund/Sten Sandell(SR,P1 2001)
Ken Vandermark/Sten Sandell
, "Two days in December" (WOB012-1, 2002)
SÃ¥lunda talade Zarathustra"Rolf Skoglund/Sten Sandell/F. Nietzsche(SR,P1 2003)
“spegeln” Magnus Jacobsson/Sten Sandell (SR,P1 2004)
Sten Sandell Trio
, "flat iron" (SOFA 514, 2004)
Sten Sandell and David Stackenäs with Parker/Guy/Lytton, "Gubbröra" (psi 04.10, 2004)
Nilsson Sandell duo, "strings and objects" (LJ Records 5235, 2004)
Sten Sandell, "songs" (LJCD 5237, 2005)
Gush, "norrköping" (ALP161CD, 2005)
Gush, "electric eel" (QBICO 13, 2005)
paal nilssen-Love, evan parker, sten sandell, ingebrigt håker flaten, "townorchestrahouse" (CF041CD, 2005)
"music in the world of sten sandell" (LJCD 5243, 2006)
Sten Sandell trio + john butcher
, "strokes" (clean feed, CF082CD, 2007)
“Völvans spådom” Sverrir Gudjonsson/Sten Sandell (SR,P1 2007)
Sten Sandell trio
, "oval" (Intakt CD 122, 2007)
Sten Sandell, Mattias Ståhl, "grann musik" (clean feed, CF109CD, 2008)
townhouseorchestra, "belleville" (clean feed , 2008)
"munnen" sten sandell (SR,P2, Monitor 2008)
strandberg/sandell/thorman"sthlm sweden polyphony"(FYR011-ISO3,2009)
NILSSON/SANDELL/ STRID "BEAM STONE"(psi 09.02,2009)
Contact and information:

Sten Sandell, Jungmansgränd 20, SE-117 67 Stockholm, Sweden
[email protected]
http://efi.group.shef.ac.uk
http://www.swedishmusicshop.com
http://www.lj-records.se/artists.html
http://www.alice-musik.se/cat.html
http://www.nuscoperec.com/homepage.htm

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/29/2007
Band Website: www.kistaartcity.com"efi.group.shef.ac.uk
www.kistaartcity.com
Band Members: sten sandell solo;
sten sandell trio: sten sandell, paal nilssen-love, johan berthling;
"townhouseorchestra: evan parker, paal nilssen-love, ingebrigt håker flaten, sten sandell;
sten sandell/emil strandberg/patric thorman trio;
low dynamic orchestra: amit sen, kjell nordeson, peter söderberg, sten sandell;
"bemass":bela emerson, magnus alexandersson, sten sandell;
"beam stone": per-anders nilsson, raymond strid, sten sandell;
"Elektro-Botanik: herman müntzing, sten sandell;

Influences: Music Inside the Language

Verbal and Non-Verbal Songs Meet an Ensemble in a Room

How the members of an ensemble work together and relate to each other in the space they are situated in when they are rehearsing and/or giving concerts, has, as an improvising musician, composer, ensemble leader and music teacher, interested me more and more during the last few years.

The purpose of this project is:

1) to examine, from a spatial perspective, what happens in a music ensemble consisting of musicians/singers/actors when working with notational music composition and/or improvised music, where different textual material is integrated.

2) to study the uniqueness of improvised music to be able to change a music composition based on the various conditions a room/space has to offer; and also how ensemble members can change the direction of the improvisation or maintain it.

3) to investigate how one makes an ensemble conscious of the relationship between their own artistic contribution and the surrounding environment when playing together in specific spaces e.g. how one can take advantage of a room’s properties and increase one’s knowledge of how one can integrate a text, verbal and non-verbal songs with music so as to produce a working whole, whereby one also creates new forms of aural drama/ musical performance/ “new opera” all at the same time!

4) to map the dynamics of spatial phenomena such as spatial feedback, e.g. what is the effect of the specific space on the vocal and instrumental resonance (overtone resonance) and how does one produce a specific sound landscape in each specific room/space by developing one’s sense of hearing.

The main empirical material for this project will consist of a number of case studies in the form of:

a series of experiments/improvisations that give way to

a series of processes that give way to

a series of methods that give way to

a series of composition models

It is my intention to invite professional musicians/singers/ actors from different genres to cooperate in a project comprising a series of music performances. This project will have the working title: Verbal and non-verbal songs for mixed ensembles, composed by Sten Sandell. A number of rooms/spaces with completely different characteristics will be selected for these case studies. The latter will be presented by means of sound and visual documentation.

a som i abstrakt efter tystnaden, framför
b som i bakelit bakom ackorden
under bordunerna, framför andningarna
mellan pedalerna och kedjorna
i och bakom danserna, i ett tillstånd av fukt
mellan öronen och lungorna, i en epilog
under fem korta berättelser
med friktion - fem mot tre
återkopplingar i rösten, sångerna, feedsongs
i polyrytmiska flöden, ovala flöden
i gobi-öknen
med strängar, huvuden, händer, skor, gudar, människor, röstrytmer
slå inne i kroppen i k som i ett konkret kosmos
alldeles nära kalahari-öknen
som man inte kan ha i möblerade rum
under kontinentförskjutningarna
med ben, lungor
och en man springande på en grusväg

vals
med akustisk metrik

ej kompakt
ej fixerat, lättrörligt
ej tungt
ej gasform
ej morton
ej i detta register

solid

not compact
not fixed, easily changed
not gas
not heavy
not liquid
not morton
not part of this range

solid

det är omöblerat utanför huset
och på taket
eller aldrig
ovanför staden, ovanför gränsen

tala, tala
sålunda talade

saâäåäyyyy----

sju mot allt
eller
sju mot tre

tango

bakom skåp, lådor och lite grus
i skikt
på skinn och ramar

sånger, sånger mellan
sten och betong
snubbla och spring med synapser
på stranden, i staden, på landet, på kanten
vden femte platsen, det första mötet
jakten
processionen
det andra mötet, den andra platsen med ljudet från en röd låda

den tredje platsen med trio utan solo
tretton år senare eller tre månader senare

att vara

tår och ögon
under golvet, under huset, under stenen, utanför tiden

vakum

munnen, i luft och pipor bakom vattenhålet
i ett litet rum med stenar och tungor, i södern
och utanför huset som vågor i fem akter

the mouth, in air and pipes behind the waterhole
in a small room with stones and tongues, in the south
and outside the house like waves in five acts

doften av spräckt bakelit

doften är lila

flytande stenmassor

stenspår
med kondens
blöta spår

ej kompakt

ej fixerat, lättrörligt
ej tungt
ej gasform
ej i detta register

solid

handen följer stenens spår

handen pressar stenen
i linjer

lagrad, levrad sten
ligger kvar på stranden
hetlevrad

under stenen finns
abstrakta skillingtryck
eller
abstrakta ballader

modala ballader

med strängar
och resonansbottnar
i nivåer, skikt
topografier

Sounds Like: .. ..
Record Label: LJ-records,Intakt,Alice,Sofa,Nuscope,Clean Feed
Type of Label: Major

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