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Since its foundation in 1991, MASH -Magnus Alexanderson
and Sachiko Hayashi - have been exploring compositions involving
audio-visual experimentations. After its start in 1991 with the
multimedia piece FU involving music (sound), dance (movement) and
installation (space), MASH now concentrates on projects with high
use of digital manipulation both in sound and image.
MASH received a project grant for "FU"
(multimedia performance) from The Swedish National Council for Cultural
Affairs. Between 1991 and 1992 "FU" engaged a Butoh dancer,
a modern dancer and a violinist, travelled through Sweden and were
shown at 6 different cities including Folkens Museum in Stockholm
and Uppsala Museum of Art.
MASH video works have been shown widely internationally
at such venues as Not Still Art Festival in New York (2002), European
Media Art Festival in Osnabrück, Germany (2002), Transmediale
in Berlin (2003), Boston CyberArt in Mass. USA (2003), and Radiator
- New Media Art Festival in Nottingham, UK (2003). One of MASH videos,
"Stretched in Dark", was commissioned by the National
Council of Concerts in Sweden. The whole trilogy was chosen by the
same institution for a national tour and was shown at 8 different
cities in Sweden.
Music of "FU" and "Stretched in
Dark" are included on audio CD "Stretched in the Dark,"
a compilation of EAM works by Magnus Alexanderson, released by Elektron,
2006. |
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[Magnus Alexanderson]
Magnus
Alexanderson is an EAM composer and experimental
guitarist. He studied Electro-Acoustic Music Composition
under the guidance of Lars-Gunnar Bodin, Rolf Enström
and Tamas Unguary at the Royal Academy of Music in collaboration
with Electronic Music Studio in Stockholm between 1980
-1983 and in addition received private tutorials in
instrumental composition with composers Lars Sandberg
and Mikros Maros.
His electro-acoustic music compositions
have been performed at various venues throughout Sweden.
He has been a guest lecturer on EAM at the University
of Linköping between 1992 and 1996. In 2001 he
was commissioned by the University of Linköping,
the City of Norrköping and the Swedish Ministry
of Foreign Affairs to compose for the opening event
of EU Commissioner meeting in Sweden.
He is also an experimental guitarist
with contribution in various improvisational groups.
His collaborators include Jair-Rohm Parker Wells, Tony
Bianco, and Gary Smith. The
first CD of Decision Dream (Jair-Rohm Parker Wells,
Tony Bianco and Magnus Alexanderson) was released by
Canadian label Red Toucan in 2005, receiving international
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[Sachiko Hayashi]
Sachiko
Hayashi is a visual artist who primarily works in
video and screen-based interactive media. Originally
from Tokyo, Hayashi holds a BA in International &
Cultural Studies from Tsuda College, Tokyo, a MA with
Merit in Digital Media from Coventry School of Art &
Design, Coventry University, UK, and completed additional
postgraduate studies in Computer Arts at the Royal Univeristy
College of Fine Arts in Stockholm.
Her works have been shown internationally
at many video and new media festivals, including such
venues as Symphony Space, New York, Saitama Museum of
Modern Art, Japan and the National Museum of Science
and Technology, Stockholm. One of her video works have
been included on DVD "Personas and Personalities"
by Aspect
Magazine, Boston, 2006.
Beside her video works, she is known
for her net art and her contribution to net art communities.
Examples of this include foundation and international
launch of DIAN network, editor of online journal Hz
and founder/curator of Hz Net Gallery. She was also
an artist-in-residence at the Experimental Television
Center, 2003. |
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audio-visual interactive performance
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