Lars Bröndum
Lars Bröndum, PhD, is a composer, performer of live-electronics, theorist and guitarist. His music has been performed throughout Europe, the Americas and Japan.
His music often explores the interaction between acoustic and electronic instruments and lives on the border between written music and improvisation. The compositions are structured around cyclical processes, irregular ostinatos, fragmented gestures and microtonal clusters.
Lars performs live using an analog modular system, a theremin, effect pedals and sometimes a laptop with Max/MSP. Bröndum often composes for (and plays with) the ensembles The Aleatoric Chamber Ensemble, ReSurge, and other constallations. He has received composer grants from Konstnärsnämnden (Swedish Art Council), STIM (Swedish Performing Rights Society) and awards from FST (Swedish Composer´s Society). Bröndum is the founder of the independent record label Antennae Media. Four of his published albums has received awards as best experimental music in Sweden by SOM (Swedish Independent Music Producers).
Lars is an active composer at EMS (Electroacoustic Music in Sweden) and was on the Board of Fylkingen (new music & inter media art society), SEAMS (Society of Electroacoustic Music in Sweden), and was Chairman in VEMS (Composers at EMS) 2007-2008. He has served as a board member on the Swedish Section of ICEM (International Confederation for Electronic Music).
In 1992 Bröndum finished his PhD in Composition & Theory at the University of Pittsburgh. The dissertation is entitled “Formations for Chamber Orchestra” and “An Analytical Study of Voice Leading and Pitch Class Set Structure in György Ligeti’s Kammerkonzert Für 13 Instrumentalisten”. “Formations for Chamber Orchestra” is an original composition and the analytical part proposes a model for analyzing cluster music by combining set theory and linear analysis. Lars also has a Masters in Music in Composition and Music Theory (1989) and a Bachelors of Music degree in Guitar Performance (1987) from the Dana School of Music at the Youngstown State University. Lars is currently a Lector (assoc. prof) in Music at Skövde University.
For recent works and projects, please see http://www.antennaemedia.se
To listen to Bröndum's musik, please see Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0xndevWgtKZTOJV8pOzw4M?si=kDFkGU7WRG-N5k088Ybfgw
or Bandcamp:
https://larsbrondum.bandcamp.com/
Education
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Research
2022
2022. Artistic output. Sound recording, musical.
2022. Artistic output. Sound recording, musical.
2022. Artistic output. Sound recording, musical.
2022. Artistic output. Sound recording, musical.
2022. Artistic output. Sound recording, musical.
2021
2021. Artistic output. Sound recording, musical.
2019
Nutida Musik
2019. Article.
Popular Music in the Post-Digital Age: Politics, Economy, Culture and Technology
2019. Chapter in book. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781501338403.ch-007
PARSE Journal
2019. Article.
2018
2018. Artistic output. Sound recording, musical.