ÿþ<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>Marcus Fjellström -- About</title> <style type="text/css"> html {overflow-y: scroll;} body {background-color:#151d37; margin-top:3px;} body, p, h1, h2, td, a {color:#eeeeff} body, p, td {font-size:10px; font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,helve,sans-serif;font-align:left;} h1 {font-size:11px; font-style:bold} h2 {font-size:10px; font-style:bold} a {text-decoration:none} </style> </head> <body> <!-- PANELEN START --> <table align="center" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" valign="top"> <tr height="138"> <td width="800"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left" valign="top"> <tr height="39"> <td width="800" colspan="4"><img src="gfx_panel/pr1_topborder.gif"></td></tr> <tr height="32"> <td width="17" rowspan="2"><img src="gfx_panel/pr234_leftborder.gif"></td> <td width="116" rowspan="2"><a href="index.html"><img src="gfx_panel/pr2_stamp.gif" border="0" alt="home"></a></td> <td width="651"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left" valign="top"> <tr height="32"> <td width="231"><a href="about.html"><img src="gfx_panel/pr2_marcus.gif" border="0" alt="Marcus Fjellström"></a></td> <td width="168" rowspan="2"><a href="http://www.kafkagarden.com/"><img src="gfx_panel/pr23_kafkacom.gif" border="0" alt="home"></a></td> <td width="252" rowspan="2"><a href="music.html" target="_blank"><img src="gfx_panel/pr23_music.gif" border="0" alt="music examples"></a></td> <tr height="32"> <td width="231"><img src="gfx_panel/pr3_publ.gif"></td></tr> </table> </td> <td width="16" rowspan="2"><img src="gfx_panel/pr234_rightborder.gif"></td></tr> <tr height="24"> <td width="651"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left" valign="top"> <td width="122"><a href="about.html"><img src="gfx_panel/pr4_3_about.gif" border="0" alt="about"></a></td> <td width="116"><a href="news.html"><img src="gfx_panel/pr4_4_news.gif" border="0" alt="news"></a></td> <td width="126"><a href="works.html"><img src="gfx_panel/pr4_5_works.gif" border="0" alt="works"></a></td> <td width="139"><a href="garden.html"><img src="gfx_panel/pr4_6_garden.gif" border="0" alt="garden"></a></td> <td width="148"><a href="contact.html"><img src="gfx_panel/pr4_7_contact.gif" border="0" alt="contact"></a></td></tr> </table> </td> <tr height="11"> <td width="800" colspan="4"><img src="gfx_panel/pr5_bottomborder.gif"></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> <!-- PANELEN END --> <!-- ABOUT START --> <table align="center" width="640" border=0> <td width="640"> <br /> <img src="gfx_etc/about_portr_02.gif" align="right" width="149" height="154" vspace="7" hspace="24" alt="" /> <h1>About.</h1><br /> <p> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>> <a href="fjellstrom_ext_CV_WEB.pdf">DOWNLOADABLE BIOGRAPHY AND CV (in PDF format)</b></a></p> <p> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>> <a href="fjellstrom_bio.pdf">BIOGRAPHY AND CV, TEXT ONLY (Swedish and English, in PDF format)</b></a></p> <p> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>> <a href="photos.html">HIGH-RES PHOTOS</b></a></p> <p> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>> <a href="quotes.html">PRESS QUOTES</b></a></p> <p> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>> <a href="faq.html">F.A.Q.</b></a></p> <br /><br /> <h2>MARCUS FJELLSTRÖM ; BIOGRAPHY</h2> <p>Born in Sweden in 1979, Marcus Fjellström is a composer and multimedia artist. His work ranges from the purely orchestral through electronic music and audiovisual work. He has worked with the <a href="http://www.operan.se/templates/ListingIndex.aspx?id=216" target="_blank">Swedish Royal Ballet</a> and the <a href="http://www.sco.org.uk/" target="_blank">Scottish Chamber Orchestra</a> as well as numerous ensembles and soloists, independent record labels, artists and filmmakers including <a href="http://www.fat-pie.com/salad8.htm" target="_blank">"Salad Fingers"</a> creator <a href="http://www.fat-pie.com/flash.htm" target="_blank">David Firth</a>.</p> <p>Fjellström studied composition and orchestration at the School of Music in Piteå, Sweden, graduating with honors in 2005. One month after graduation his debut full-length album <a href="works/exercises.html">"Exercises in Estrangement"</a> was released by <a href="http://www.discogs.com/label/Lampse" target="_blank">Lampse Audiovisual Recordings</a> to <a href="works/exercises.html#reviews">enthusiastic reviews</a>. The following year his second album <a href="works/gebrauchsmusik.html">"Gebrauchsmusik"</a> was released by the same label, after which he focused on orchestral and chamber music for two years. In 2008 he completed his first major audiovisual work, the experimental cartoon / electronic music piece <a href="works/odboy1.html">"Odboy & Erordog, episode 1"</a>. Since then he has written several audiovisual works involving classical instrumentation, including "Lichtspiel Mutation 1" for <a href="http://www.sinfonietta.pl/pl/index.php" target="_blank">Sinfonietta Cracovia</a> and <a href="works/odboy2.html">"Odboy & Erordog, episode 2"</a> for <a href="http://www.swinepearl.com/svin1eng.html" target="_blank">The Peärls Before Swïne Exerience</a>.</p> </p>In his works, Fjellström often aims to combine opposites so that they don't contradict each other, but rather fuse into a natural, third element. There is often a challenging of the gap between "high" and "low" culture, of the naïve and the sophisticated, of good and bad taste. Musical influences range from electronica such as Aphex Twin and Autechre, to 20th century composers such as György Ligeti and John Cage. Further influences include impressionist composers Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy, and film music composers Bernard Herrmann, Angelo Badalamenti and Zdenk Liaka.</p> <br /><br /><br /> </td> </table> </body> </html>