Henrik Frisk

Henrik Frisk is employed as a professor of digital sound art at KMH and conducts research in music with a focus on composition and artistic practice.

About the researcher

Henrik Frisk is a professor of music with a focus on digital sound art at the department of composition, conducting and music theory at KMH and active nationally and internationally as a saxophonist, composer, researcher as well as a teacher and lecturer. Henrik mainly works with, and mainly teaches, electroacoustic composition but also improvisation and sound installation.

As a musician and composer, Henrik is active in Europe, North and Latin America and Asia and has recorded records for several international record labels. For many years he has collaborated with Vietnamese musicians and toured with the group The Six Tones, where contemporary musical practices from a post-colonial perspective are explored.

At KMH, Henrik is the program manager for the educational programs in electroacoustic composition.

Henrik was chairman of KMH's education and research board during 2018-2022 and visiting professor at CCRMA, Stanford University during autumn 2022.

Research description

Since 2008, when Henrik received his doctorate, he has been conducting research in music with a focus on issues related to ethical perspectives in artistic practice and artistic work as a method for tackling difficult problems.

At KMH, he supervises doctoral students and represents a research group in artistic research in music in collaboration with KTH with five doctoral students and one postdoc. He also leads a collaboration with the music academy in Piteå at Luleå University of Technology called Interface Research Lab, the largest cluster for artistic research in Sweden. Henrik also supervises doctoral students at the schools of music in Malmö and Piteå, at KTH and in Norway.

Research projects

• Historically informed design
• Musical Transformations
• IRESAP – Information Retrieval in Embedded Systems for Audiovisual Processes

Publications

Henrik Frisk's publications in DiVA External link.

Education

Henrik has his artistic education from Copenhagen, New York and Banff, Canada. In 2008, he received his doctorate in artistic research in music at Lund University on the thesis "Improvisation, Computers, and Interaction: Rethinking Human-Computer Interaction Through Music".