Composer of electroacoustic works, live computer music, and sound installations, using multichannel sound projection, generative algorithms, improvised performance and acousmatic sound. Theorist on sound and space in electroacoustic and computer music composition. Lecturer in Music at City, University of London,
Erik Nyström will undertake a 12-month research project as part of the 5-year €2 million ERC Consolidator Grant After Sampling Culture: Synthetic media as culture in twenty-first century music, led by Professor Christopher Haworth at University of Birmingham. The research will explore the concept of ‘synthetic media’ as it has arisen in relation to generative AI, and how music, through its 60+ years of engagement with synthetic sound, can offer a unique and historically grounded insight into synthetic media as culture. As part of the research, which has several participants, Erik Nyström is leading the project “Theorising synthetic models beyond standard-nonstandard” which investigates the use of neural-synthesis methods in composition, which call for a new understanding of the relation between world, model, and synthesised sound, beyond the binary of real-abstract.The outputs of the project will include compositions, autoethnographic reportage and theory.
City St George's, University of London.
5 June, 19:00: Erik Nyström presents live multichannel concert at SPARC Lab.
City St George's, University of London
Computer music workshops with full the multichannel loudspeaker array of SPARC Lab. Free to attend, sign up below:
BEAST FEaST 2025
University of Birmingham
1 May 18:00: Christopher Haworth and Erik Nyström perform Mandlisse Knots, live networked computer music