Magnus Bunnskog

Studies

1996-1997            Film- and radio production: 1 year, Media School, Ölands folkhögskola 

1997-1998            Writer’s School (prose, poetry and drama): 1 year, Öland School for writers

1998-2000            Composition: 2 years, Gotland School of Composition, Visby

2000                     Interactive Art and New Medias, Uppsala university

2004-2006            Theatre Studies, Musik-, Dans- och Teatervetenskapliga Institutionen, Stockholm University

2006-2011            Master in Composition: 5 years, KMH Royal College of Music Stockholm; 2007-2008 Erasmus Exchange: 1 year, CNSMD de Lyon

Masterclasses in composition for Salvatore Sciarrino at Acanthes summer courses in Metz, France 2008; also a.o. Ivan Fedele, Enno Poppe, Emanuele Casale.

Work a.o.

1999-2000            Creative Producer at Splintermind/Beeoff, web-based art & performance

2003-2006            Coordinator, Gotland Baltic Music and Composition Summer Courses, Högskolan på Gotland

2006                     Assistant Producer at Fylkingen, Stockholm

2009-2011            Professor's Assistant at the Composition department of KMH

2011-2015            Board member of programming etc., Sound of Stockholm festival

2013                     Musical Director of Folkoperan Opera Showroom 2013

2011- (ongoing)    Artistic Director and Dramaturg, Audiorama

2016- (ongoing)    Editor at Nutida Musik

Lecturer in musical drama, sound art and composition for institutions such as Dramaten, Operahögskolan, KMH, Högskolan för Scen & Musik i Göteborg, EBU Drama, Mejan, Konstfack, Linköpings Universitet, STDH, Gotlands Tonsättarskola.

Member of

• FST
• Writers Guild of Sweden (Dramatikerförbundet)
• Fylkingen
• ISCM Swedish Section (vice president, first delegate General Assembly)

Additional positions 

• Stiftelsen Saltö, Kungliga Musikaliska Akademien (FST repr)

2009-2014    Member of the board, Samtida Musik

2008-2011    Member of the board of the Royal College of Music

• Traum, short opera nominated by the Musik Biennale Zagreb 2015 (5 minutes) for 2 singers and chamber ensemble (2015).
• Opera Park, commissioned by Folkoperan; opera performance (10 minutes) for 4 singers and sinfonietta (2013).
• Rhesus, commissioned by the Swedish Radio Theatre; radio opera (90 minutes) for 7 singers, 2 actors, symphony orchestra and electronics (2012).
• meta/language, commissioned by Nordic Music Days/FST; choir and electronics (14 minutes) for 16 vocal soloists, choir and electronics (2012).
• The gaze of Saint Sebastian, for Operahögskolan; chamber opera (40 minutes) for 4 singers and chamber ensemble (2011).
• Journey to the centre of the earth, commissioned by Audiorama/Kulturrådet; earplay for children (30 minutes), for 21 loudspeakers (together with composer Marcus Wrangö, 2011).
• Soll d schlaf nicht allmählich abgeschafft werden?; performance piece (20 minutes), for 6 turntables and voice (2010).
• Gibbrish!; music for dance performance, (20 minutes) for 4 loudspeakers (premiered by dancer Jacob Valentin at Fylkingen 2006)
• Massa/Paste – in a kinetic landscape; music for video installation by artist Hanna Stahle, for 4 loudspeakers (premiered at Fylkingen 2000)
• Kök/Kitchen, livestreamed video performance piece (1 week) commissioned by Beeoff (together with artist Helena Lopac 2000, reprised at Kulturhuset, Stockholm and Kiasma, Helsinki 2001)

Publications:

Literature:

Sterbhuset, anthology (1998)

Poetry published in cultural magazines such as Kalk, 00tal, Glänta, Tiresias (Mexico). Readings a.o. at the Stockholm Poetry Festival at Dramaten.

Essays and critique:

Compoz. Det ljudande rummet. Interaktiv ljudkonstinstallation: 2014-2017. Ed. Denis Gómez García & Magnus Bunnskog. Audiorama Förlag (2017)

Nutida Musik, Musiktexte (Germany), Tidningen Kulturen, Tritonus

Music records:

I like music, Närproducerat #5

Viral sonology, Hugo Paquete Institute of Viral sonology #6

Art film:

Massa/Paste – in a kinetic landscape (DVD version of video installation by Hanna Stahle), Film på Gotland (2000)

Solfångare, Film på Gotland (1999)