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| | | ideal (sweden) #ideal 056 cd mattias petersson “floodlight” compact disc - neverfield (10:23)
- floodlight (10:20)
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- firecharger (7:52)
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| | june 2008 release ; grizzly computer-music from this fylkingen-aligned composer ... |
| | mattias petersson
floodlight
compact disc album
kindly subsidized by the swedish council for cultural affairs.
electro-acoustic music is going to different places. longtime fylkingen collaborator mattias petersson is going somewhere of great importance ...
mattias petersson’s first album for ideal; “floodlight,” can be seen as a beautiful shadows of compositions that never were or almost became reality. echoes and shadows of melodies are cut up and hidden in layers of sound and noise. we are amazed over how well this is done and we just simply cant recommend this album enough to anyone who is interested in electronic music! it is a massive work and is succeeding to both include rough edges and friendly elements. another proof that the swedish electronic music scene is feeling all right at the moment ... carrying the tradition of composers like rune lindblad, akos rozmann and lars-gunnar bodin, petersson is amongst a new group of people that will be seen as very influential. check it out, ok?
biography
mattias petersson was born in 1972 and grew up on a small island off the south-east coast of sweden. when he was five, his mother took him to a christmas party, where people were supposed to dance around a christmas tree. during the party he discovered that a small ventilation fan were rotating just below the ceiling. obsessed with electro-mechanical devices and their sounds as he was, he started to shout: "everybody keep silent! i want to listen to the sound of the fan!'". of course no one paid attention to this shouting little kid, which made him very angry, screaming even louder. his mother eventually had to leave the party, because mattias stubbornly persisted in his impossible request. this is the background to a man who is living and breathing sound.
his father had an old reel-to-reel tape recorder with sound-on-sound capabilities. petersson used to play with this in his early teenage, recording casio keyboards, drum-machines, piano and other sounds. he also took piano lessons, and played a lot of classical music during this time. for some years this became his main interest, and later on actually resulted in a piano teacher exam. at the same time he listened a lot to obscure electronic music, and also discovered the music of stockhausen, steve reich, xenakis and others through the great record library at the university. but the urge to make his own music, instead of reproducing others, grew stronger on him and finally he decided to give up the piano playing, and became a full-time composer instead.
mattias petersson is now based in stockholm, where he studied electro-acoustic composition at the royal college of music. besides this formal training, the more anti-academic fylkingen community has had a big infuence on his works. in this context he has collaborated and played with a lot of other artists, as well as doing solo pieces in multichannel surround and other sound experiments.
his music has been described as a mix between ambient electronica, electro-acoustic, industrial and crackling noise. since the critically acclaimed debut album "mimer" (fylkingen records, 2003), which was based upon sounds from a defunct iron mine, petersson' s industrial soundscape has been mixed with piano and orchestra samples, treated through dirty filters, analog distortion and digital degradation. mattias petersson also released some cd-r’s on his own label "wickerwork recordings", and contributes with a track on the compilation "the post_pian02 open remix project" on the renowned label 12k. |
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