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Anders Hultqvist

Professor Emeritus

Music
Telephone
+46 31-786 42 52
+46 733-38 82 98
Mail
anders.hultqvist@hsm.gu.se
Visiting address
Eklandagatan 86
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Postal address
Box 210
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About Anders Hultqvist

Anders Hultqvist, Professor of Composition at the Academy of Music and Drama, University 91̽»¨.

Hultqvist’s artistic research has mainly been located within the fields of Urban and rural sound studies, Musical creation/interpretation, and Ecological Sound Art. Research projects, as well as artistic compositional work, frequently takes as its point of departure a combination of artistic, literary, cognitive, physiological, and social perspectives. Hultqvist’s various commissions and composition projects consists of works for orchestra, various chamber music constellations, sound installations, choral works, musical drama, electroacoustic works, as well as film and theatre music. He has also curated musical and scientific events as a Festival director, Conference organizer, and Journal editor.

Some of the more extensive projects include At the Conceptual Limits of Composition. A Shrinking Emptiness - Meaning, Chaos and Entropy (2015-19) which explored the artistic creation of meaning in musical and literary composition. The research project Towards an Expanded Field of Art Music circled around the work concept and our interpretational musical tradition. The two projects Transmission – Urban experiments in Sound Art and Sonic Space, and Into Noisedealt with questions around urban sound environments and was carried out within the cross disciplinary research group USIT – Urban Sound Institute.

Sounding Norrbotten, Invisible Sounds, and Instrumenting(s) are some ongoing artistic research projects.

Hultqvist has a PhD in musicology (artistic creative track) from the University 91̽»¨.