Klas Nevrin

Klas Nevrin is a musician, composer, and lecturer in improvisation at KMH. With a broad artistic and academic background, he teaches improvisation, creative listening, and artistic research, as well as supervising master's degree projects.

About the researcher

Klas Nevrin is a musician, composer, and educator with an extensive artistic and academic background. He plays acoustic piano, keyboards, live electronics, and hand drums, among other instruments. At KMH, he teaches improvisation, both individually and in ensembles, as well as composition. He also offers courses in creative listening, supervises master's theses, and teaches artistic research.

Beyond music, Nevrin has studied the history of religions, Indology, and philosophy, and has conducted research on yoga. He is passionate about developing collective practices that integrate artistic, process-philosophical, pedagogical, activist, and decolonial perspectives. His inspirations include Erin Manning, Brian Massumi, Isabelle Stengers, Rosi Braidotti, Donna Haraway, Alfred North Whitehead, and Gilles Deleuze.

Research Description

Nevrin's artistic research explores listening, interdisciplinary co-creation, and improvisation, involving collaborations with artists from fields such as visual arts, dance, and performance. He is particularly interested in how experimental art and listening practices can contribute to micropolitical processes of social change. This, in turn, connects to research on neurodiversity and decoloniality, as well as feminist theories on responsibility and response. Nevrin also examines how affective and relational aspects can offer new perspectives on artistic practice and experience.

The AMIS Research Project

Nevrin is the project leader for the AMIS research project (2024–2026), which investigates how artistic methods can be applied outside the art world to contribute to innovation and sustainable social development. The project builds on the findings of the previous research project Music in Disorder (2016–2019) and explores improvisation and co-creation in relation to systemic change.