Fylkingen
Fylkingen - New Music and Intermedia Art is an artist-run venue, member based organization committed to the contemporary experimental performing arts field. Over 250 artists from various disciplines use the space to develop and present new work. Fylkingen is run by an active board and production group, together with a number of members running the label Fylkingen Records ( in operation since 1966 ). The organization established in 1933 in , Sweden, then focusing on contemporary composers and traditional repertoire. Over the years, the organization branched out into new forms. The first concert of electroacoustic music in Sweden was arranged by Fylkingen in 1952, together with the Swedish Radio. Since the 1960’s Fylkingen represents a wide field of artistic practices.
80 years of new music and intermedia art!
Fylkingen was founded in 1933 as a Chamber Music Society of musicians and composers in order to highlight the new music of contemporary composers in combination with a traditional repertoire. Composer Ingemar Liljefors served as the organization's first Chairman from 1933-1946. The interest in new music eventually led to that Fylkingen in cooperation with the Swedish Radio presented the first concert of electroacoustic music in Sweden in 1952 and in 1963 Fylkingen arranged the very first concerts of computer music, or data machine music as it was then called.
Fylkingens concerts of electronic music attracted the attention of composers worldwide for the high sound quality and unconventional presentation format. Promenade Concerts with electronic music, music simultaneously in several rooms with different acoustic conditions and landscape music in Stockholm parks heard the news. In the 1960s the association radicalized more and more art forms took place at Fylkingen; performance art, dance, choreography, happenings and text-sound compositions. At the time, many of Fylkingens arrangement took place at Moderna Museet in Stockholm, with a detour to other premises in Stockholm and around Scandinavia.
The programs from the 60s and 70s are filled with performances by and with the international avant-guard; John Cage, David Tudor; Iannis Xenakis, Pierre Boulez, Morton Subotnick, Ravi Shankar, Terry Riley, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Nam June Paik, Henri Chopin, and La Monte Young. Often, side by side with major Swedish composers such as Åke Hodell, Lars-Gunnar Bodin, Öyvind Fahlström, Sten Hanson, Folke Rabe and Catherine Christer Hennix and performing artists Margareta Åsberg, Yvonne Rainer, Merce Cunningham, Antonin Artaud, Carolee Schneeman. Later, visiting artists have been, for example; Brian Eno, Coffee Matthews, Genesis P-Orridge, Her Noise, Andre Stitt, Carsten Nicolai, Damo Suzuki, Tara Transistory, Gudrun Gut and many many more.
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