KMH X-day

Location: Kungasalen
Language: English

Welcome to an afternoon filled with inspiration, knowledge exchange and future visions. We start with lectures and discussions on innovation in music and interdisciplinary collaborations followed by presentations of ongoing research in music.

Moderator: Karin Hellqvist, PhD, musician and associate professor, KMH Music Olof Misgeld, PhD, senior lecturer, Department of Folk Music, KMH

Lecture: Artistic Co-Creation Methods for Innovation and Sustainability – What do the business partners say?

Thomas Arctaedius, Adj. professor and researcher, KMH

The AMIS research project explores the role of art in systemic change in both business and society. Art and artistic methods can function as an activating force that challenges ingrained ways of thinking and opens up new possibilities.

More specifically, we investigate how artistic co-creation methods can be used to stimulate innovation and sustainability in collaboration with Scania, PostNord and Implement Consulting Group.

At KMH X-day, Implement Consulting Group and Scania Transformers Team will present their experiences from the project and tell how it is to collaborate with KMH and artists.

Lecture: Transit Kulturinkubator – A greenhouse for artistic entrepreneurs

Chrissie Faniadis, Operations Manager

Transit Kulturinkubator supports artistic entrepreneurs and creators to develop their ideas into sustainable businesses. Transit offers tools, advice and networks that make it easier to navigate the freelance life and grow as both an artist and entrepreneur.

Short presentations from KMH's researchers

• We compose our way through history
  
  Daniel Berg, professor, percussion, KMH Joakim Anterot, senior lecturer, percussion, KMH
  
  
• Assessment of artistic quality in audition for employment as a percussionist in professional symphony orchestras
  
  Joakim Anterot, senior lecturer in percussion Annika Falthin, senior lecturer in music education, PhD
  
  
• With the body as a compass – movement, direction and feeling become song
  
  Bo Rosenkull, professor in singing and subject didactics
• Musician Practicum – a student handbook
  
  Eva Bojner Horwitz, professor Karin Hellqvist, PhD and associate professor
  
  
• MusicDance Mediations
  
  Olof Misgeld, PhD and senior lecturer, Department of Folk Music
  
• Vocal ear arrangement
  
  Maria Misgeld, senior lecturer in singing, Department of Folk Music
  
• From timing to expression – Mapping of pedagogical contributions to qualitative musical interaction in high school ensembles
  
  Karl Asp, PhD and senior lecturer, KMH
  
• The research circle as a music pedagogical meeting place
  
  Anna Backman Bister, PhD and senior lecturer
  
• Innovative Ear Training and Improvisation App
  
  Hans Lindetorp, PhD and associate professor, Department of Music and Media Production Håkan Goohde, senior lecturer, Department of Jazz
  
• Composed interaction
  
  Kim Hedås, professor composition at the Department for Composition, Conducting & Music Theory
  Fredrik Hedelin, senior lecturer at the Department for Composition, Conducting & Music Theory ensemble neo
  
• KK-stiftelsen's initiative, Jubilee PhD students
  
  Susanna Leijonhufvud, Docent and PhD Music Education at the Royal College of Music Anna Backman Bister, Senior Lecturer and PhD Music Education at the Royal College of Music

PLocation: Kungasalen

Meet our researchers, take part in poster presentations and mingle in the Royal Hall.

Location: Kungasalen
Language: Swedish

Listen to external parties, master students from different disciplines and alumni who share completed and planned collaboration projects and new project ideas. A unique opportunity to discover new collaboration possibilities and gain inspiration, new ideas and an insight into how KMH works with interdisciplinary collaborations, innovation and development.

Introduction to the session

Moderator: Karin Hellqvist, PhD, musician and associate professor, KMH

Presentation: Beyond Schubert

Peter Friis Johansson, concert pianist and entrepreneur, PhD student at KMH from October 2025 In Beyond Schubert, I explore in a series of experiments how the relationship between historical composer, contemporary musician and the performed work can change. Where is the limit of what I as a musician can do with a work, and what happens to the artistry when that limit is crossed? At the presentation, I perform one of my completions of Franz Schubert's Allegretto in C major D. 346.

KMH. How we enable external collaborations for artistic master's theses, research and innovation

Emilie Lidgard, collaboration manager, KMH

At KMH, we work to build long-term partnerships with external actors where there is mutual interest in collaborating within education and research.

Alumni presentation: Ashes to Ashes – Decomposition as a Composition Method

Louisa Palmi, alumna KMH, composer and artist

About using scientific data on the body's decomposition to compose work about death. How do you approach the immeasurable with the measurable?

Tekniska Museet – Exploring artistic expressions with technology Lisa Hellmark, program manager

About Tekniska as a place where art, technology and science meet to create new forms of public experiences. We are currently developing an Art tech scene in collaboration with artists, creative networks and researchers, where we explore how technology can be used to broaden and renew artistic expressions. Special focus is on Wisdome Stockholm, a visualization center for immersive experiences where image, movement and sound interact in a 360° environment.

The Cell – A new life science scene where art meets science

Samira Bouabana, operations manager

The Cell is Tekniska Museet's branch in Hagastaden. Here, life science comes alive through art, exhibitions and discussions. Between 2025 and 2027, we are working with the theme Me You We – about human behavior.

Interaction and experience with Västmanlandsmusiken

Jan-Erik Sahlberg, director

Västmanlandsmusiken runs Västerås Sinfonietta, the concert hall and regional music/dance. We seek collaboration on new ideas and projects in sound and music – for example, how the orchestra form can be developed or how technology and music can meet.

Alumni presentation: The master's thesis that became an art exhibition

Tove Kättström, composer
Frida Meschke, visual artist

About musical miniatures that found their way to both the concert hall and visual art. What happens when music is composed as sound images and placed in a context from another art form? A cross-artistic work in collaboration with Västmanlandsmusiken.

Kulturhuset Stadsteatern – Opportunities for collaboration in performing arts, music and interdisciplinary projects

Charlie Nelson Prag, project manager IT and digital innovation

Kulturhuset Stadsteatern is Northern Europe's largest cultural institution. We talk about current initiatives and how students can become part of future collaborations.

Alumni presentation: Between speech and song – children's voices in the story

Kristin Rosendahl, alumna KMH, composer for film and theatre

About writing material for children's performances – from set lines to choir singing that children can remember and perform without sheet music. In collaboration with Malmö Stadsteater.

Rumtiden Idea Lab – Invent new music?

Håkan Lidbo, artist and inventor

Soon, AI will be better than all composers and songwriters who have lived so far. Perspectives on music and the role of culture in a very different future. Students who share the view that all music is not yet made, that new music can be discovered, are welcome to contact Rumtiden for a possible collaboration.

Student presentation: Circus as sound

Alva Harju, student, Stockholm University of the Arts – Circus

About artistic, interdisciplinary development with circus objects as the starting point for the soundscape.

Student presentation

Elize Arvefjord, Artistic Interdisciplinary Master, KMH

Student presentation: The Collective Interaction Imprinter (CII)

Adam Fored, Artistic Interdisciplinary Master, KMH

An introduction to an interactive installation.

Location: Kungasalen
Language: English

ShareMusic & Performing Arts – Cross-artistic collaboration for inclusion

Sophia Alexandersson, operations manager and artistic director

Collaboration opportunities with ShareMusic & Performing Arts include music technology as a tool for inclusion, cross-artistic processes that include music technology, development and research of our Remote Performance Platform and communication and co-creation in traditional and non-traditional music practice.

Money, climate and other things that cause anxiety – can we meet it through sound?

Elin Helander, founder of Placeholder

We investigate how sound experiences can affect emotions and function as a tool to support behavioral change. In this collaboration, we want to delve into how sound can strengthen our ability to dare, or be able to, face what is initially perceived as uncomfortable – but which may be necessary to confront.

Take a walk in music - place as a dynamic parameter in the composition process

Elin Helander, Cognitive Scientist and Founder Placeholder, Rikard Lindell, Professor Audio Visual Studies Dalarna University

In this project, we explore how the spatial position of sound can become as central a compositional parameter as dynamics, pitch, time, and timbre. By freeing music from a traditional beginning and end, we instead let the listener's movement shape the experience. Each step, each movement opens up new sound layers and perspectives – music becomes a place-bound, unique, and changeable experience. Our innovative sound experience platform forms the basis for the experiment, where we investigate how composition and sound design can be transformed into a spatial and interactive language.

Student presentation

Hadrian Prett, Artistic Interdisciplinary Master, KMH

Student presentation

Daniel Puerto, Artistic Interdisciplinary Master, KMH

NAVET – Facilitating Cross-Institutional Student Collaborations in Stockholm

Helena Linder Miñambres - Research Assistant at NAVET (KTH) NAVET (https://www.kth.se/navet) is a centre with the overarching goal of becoming a meeting place for research and projects in the intersection of art, technology and design. In this presentation, we will share what we've learned from our experience of establishing channels for cross-institutional collaboration among students.

Student presentation with music

Ryan Packard, Artistic Interdisciplinary Master, KMH.

Percussion and Composition. Thinking through interdisciplinary collaboration through eros, materiality, and resonance.

Location: Kungasalen

Take the opportunity to discuss and brainstorm new ideas for interdisciplinary collaborations and exciting projects. An opportunity to follow up on themes from the presentations and make contacts.

Location: Lilla salen

Participants: Louisa Palmi, composer and artist & Kristin Rosendahl, composer for film and theatre.

Welcome to an evening where sound becomes both story and exploration. In this concert, electroacoustic music and narrative composition meet. Please note that the concert has a limited number of seats, you need to book a ticket via the link below:

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