Robert Ek
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February 2025, March 2024
Using transversal video as a tool for exploring transmodal remediation
During this spring clarinettist Robert Ek will explore embodied music cognition from two directions with composer Kent Olofsson and choreographer Lidia Wos in several labs at IAC. Embodied music cognition describes how our body is a natural mediator of musical events, meaning that we simply communicate what we feel through our body.
As a clarinettist, Robert Ek specialises in contemporary music, performing as both a chamber musician and a soloist. He works closely with composers to develop the repertoire for his instrument, approaching his work with great curiosity and dedication. He has recorded around 20 albums and premiered a large number of works as a soloist and chamber musician. In recent years, his work on developing the repertoire has focused on live electronics and developing the clarinet as an augmented instrument. Robert is also a PhD candidate at LTU since 2019. At the core of this doctoral project lies the iterative process where new electro-acoustic instrumental systems are designed and then used and tested in collaborative processes and in artistic practice.
Visit Robert Ek's artist page - remusik.se
Kent Olofsson is a composer with an extensive artistic output of over 220 works that span a broad field of genres, ensemble types and contexts, including music for orchestra, chamber music, electroacoustic music, music theatre, rock music, and works for dance performances and installations. In the last decade, his artistic work and research have been particularly focused on exploring musical composition in experimental theatre performances, where particularly his work with Teatr Weimar and with artist Nina Jeppsson has been widely acclaimed. From 2021 to 2025 he was a professor of performing arts at Stockholm University of the Arts; from 2026 he is a professor at the Malmö Academy of Music.
Visit Kent Olofsson’s artist page – kentolofsson.com
Lidia Wos is a Polish/Swedish freelancing dancer and choreographer, based in Malmö, Sweden. She was born in Pulawy, Poland, in 1970 and got her professional dance education at Public Ballet School in Warsaw between 1981 and 1990. After the graduation she has been working as a dancer at New Dance Theatre in Bytom, Opera Baltycka in Gdansk and Polish Dance Theatre in Poznan and from January 2002 until June 2015 at Skånes Dansteater in Malmö, Sweden. In 2003 Lidia made her debut as a choreographer when she made a short duet called Pas de Fly for a mixed Lunch Dance program at Skånes Dansteater. Her second choreography Ecru from 2005 was invited to an international choreography competition for young choreographers in Hannover. Totally she has created six choreographies for Skånes Dansteater’s Lunch Dance
programs.