marcus wrangö

Resan till jordens medelpunkt

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 12:37:12 +0000

Surroundpiece for children and families based on Jules Verne’s “The journey to the center of the earth”.
Two versions, one for children of 2–5 years, one for 6 years and older.
Composed with Magnus Bunnskog.
Composed in 2011
Durata c:a 30 minutes
Swedish text, read by Magnus Bunnskog.
Commissioned by Audiorama.
On the technical side:
- Ambisonic field recordnings.
- Processed recordings acoustic contemporary music.
- Fragments of modular synthesizer music.
- Extensive light show.
First performance at Audiorama, 2011-11-19.
Seven more public performances at Audiorama during november and december 2011.

Listen to part 1 of 4, of the version for children of 6 years and older, simplified stereo version:

obelus

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 20:00:18 +0000

Live electronic audiovisual piece
Composed in 2011
Durata c:a 9 minutes
On the technical side:
- Built in openFrameworks (in C++).
- Sound synthesis with wavetable synthesis.
- Visual synthesis with white blocks, shapes and numbers.
- Played live, controlled via the laptop keyboard.
First performance during Sound of Stockholm festival, at Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden, 2011-10-18.

Documentation of the first performance:

Sorry about the poor sound and image quality, this was recorded with the internal microphone in a Canon 7D, and some automatic light settings.

När du hör hovar, leta efter zebror

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:42:10 +0000

A electroacoustic music drama based on the monologue by Marga Pettersson.

Swedish title: När du hör hovar, leta efter zebror

Actress, script: Marga Pettersson
Editing: Magnus Bunnskog
Director, Sound design and Music: Marcus Wrangö

First performance: 2011 september 26, 19:00 at Audiorama, Stockholm.
Durata: 57 minutes 57 seconds.
Commissioned by Audiorama.
English version in the making, premiere in March 2012.
Digital and analog synthesized sounds.
Voice recordings.

Listen to the introduction, the first 8 minutes:

Different gear

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 14:19:53 +0000

I’ve used a lot of different music gear during the years. Many of the analog stuff got sold during some kind of digital revolution, but I did not directly swapped the analog gear for plug-ins and such – I started develop my own music software’s instead – and during the same time I studied and need the money to buy food. :-)

Nowadays I use both digital and analog devices for music making. And both hardware and software.

More info soon about how I use different kinds of gear.

Plusminusnoll

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 13:46:40 +0000

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Piece for live electronics and projection.
Composed in 2011.
Durata: c:a 30 minutes.
First performance: at Norberg Festival, 2011-07-30, in 8bit room, during the Audiorama Showcase.
On the technical side:
- Built in openFrameworks (in C++).
- Sound synthesis with wavetable synthesis.
- Visual synthesis with white blocks.
- Played live, controlled via the laptop keyboard.
Coming developments:
- Controllable from monome and my home built avab-ctl OSC-controller.
- Easier live sound mixing.
- Trying out different types of projection techniques – i.e. on objects, different types of walls.
- Optimization for different types of projector resolutions.

Thanks to Sebastian Lakatos and Magnus Bunnskog for the photos.

Fågellåda aka. ChickenBox

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:34:52 +0000

The ChickenBox (swedish name: Fågellåda) was built to my dear friend Kristian Borgstedt. Kristian is like me, a sound-gadget-nerd, and I wanted to build him a unique little machine that was fun and sounded cool.

I used a train sound DIY kit (Pierre Schaeffer in memoriam :-) ) that I built and then circuit bended. The heart shaped, metalbox was a gift from my mother-in-law. It turned out quite nice as the train sounds sometimes now sounds a little like chickens squeaking. The modifications is done with two screws as touch controls, a knob as speed control, and buttons to fire off the sounds.

The box was given to Kristian at the NorbergFestival 2006 (NBF 7.06), in Norberg, Sweden. The pictures are from when he tried it out the first time.

Composers Biography

Sun, 26 Jun 2011 14:36:24 +0000

Marcus was born an raised in Stockholm, Sweden. He always had a great interest in music and listening. He is an educated computer and network technician, and has been working with computers for more than a decade.

He has a background in musicstyles as electronica and electronic dance music. The last years he’s been focusing on electro acoustic music and contemporary music.

He is educated at EMS Studios in Stockholm and Gotlands School of Music Composition, and is finishing a Masters Degree in Electro Acoustic Music at The Royal College of Music in Stockholm. Composition lessons with prof. Bill Brunson, prof. Pär Lindgren, Martin Supper, Lars Ekström, Mattias Petersson, Paulina Sundin, Fredrik Hedelin, Christofer Elgh, Per Mårtensson, Henrik Strindberg, Mattias Svensson, Erik Peters, Jesper Elén.

Marcus has composed music for Wind Ensemble, Chamber Music, Combination Works with live-electronics and acoustic instruments as well as two– and multi-channel tape pieces.

Marcus plays live-electronics and working with his own musical expressions systems and softwares. He’s also a member of the Royal Laptop Quartet.

He has also worked with sound installations, playing improvised music, photography, audiovisual art and as a ride operator of several roller coasters.

Marcus motto is: ..limit your tools, not your mind.

Employment

Sun, 26 Jun 2011 14:32:10 +0000

Current employments:

Technical Producer at Audiorama — The venue for innovative drama, sound art and electro acoustic music.
Teaching the “continuation course” at EMS / Electronic music studio in Stockholm.

Royal Laptop Quartet

Sat, 25 Jun 2011 16:17:31 +0000

At the Royal Collage Of Music in Stockholm where I study we have started a Quartet of Laptop musicians called the Royal Laptop Quartet. We are using keyboards, controllers, joysticks, gamepads, wireless networking (OSC over WLAN), Max/MSP in our performances.

The ensemble was started during a course in Live Electronic Ensemble composing and playing, held by Mattias Petersson.

The Quartet is Anna Einarsson, Sebastian Lakatos, Mattias Sköld and Marcus Wrangö. We have written one Max/MSP patch each, that all four is playing on. The four pieces are quite different and stylewise it goes from live electro acoustics to microsound to noise.

We are looking for concerts, so contact us if you are interested.

You could have a listen at our myspace page, click here.

mw_stepsallad

Sat, 25 Jun 2011 15:40:09 +0000

A creative, simple stepsequencer.
Input list of integers / rhythm-eights / numbers, and let the stepsallad step through the list.
Available for Max/MSP in OSX, in two versions, one for PowerPC and one for Intel machines.
A MSP version is in the making.
OSX Intel version
OSX PPC version

Additional general info:

I develop software. Mostly focused to use in my creation of music.

Note: These objects has only been fully tested in MaxMSP 4.6 and not yet tried out in Max 5. Use them at your own risk.