| Asst Prof PerMagnus Lindborg
Assistant Professor
School of Art, Design and Media
College of Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences
Email: permagnus@ntu.edu.sg
Phone: (+65)6316 8727
Office: ART 4-9 |
| Education |
- DEA en musique et musicology University of Paris 4 2003
- Diploma du Cursus d'Ircam (PGDip) Inst. for music/accoustic res. & coordtn 1999
- Candidatus Magisterii in Composition Norweigian State Academy of Music 1995
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| Biography |
Composer, performer and researcher, Lindborg is a member of the Norwegian Society of Composers since 1994 and Assistant Professor (in Composition and Sound Design) since 2007 at the School of Art, Design and Media at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Lindborg studied piano, trombone, mathematics, languages, classical music and jazz improvisation in his native Sweden before concentrating on composition. He obtained degrees from Oslo (State Academy of Music 1995) and Paris (Ircam 1999 and a DEA from Paris-4 Sorbonne 2003) and also studied with Klas Torstensson in the Netherlands. Lindborg was twice awarded a Young Artist Grant (1998 and 1999) from the Norwegian governement.
Highlights include a first prize in the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra Nordic Composer’s Competition 2002, a Centre Pompidou commission 2003, and a book chapter in Ircam’s OM Composer’s Book, 2008. More than 50 works for soloists, ensembles and interactive electronics are published by MIC (Norway) and ABRSM (UK). Lindborg's music has been released on ECM and Daphne Records, and with sound artist group freq_out, on Ash International.
Prestigious performances include:
-TreeTorika for saxophone and chamber orchestra performed by Ensemble Ernst at Ultima Festival 2006, Oslo;
- Khreia for orchestra, First Prize winner at Stavanger Symphony Orchestra Nordic Composers' Competition 2002;
- Extra Quality#2 for dancers and electronics, commissioned for the Agora Festival at Centre Pompidou 2002, Paris;
- Lecons for saxophone and computer, IRCAM 1999, Paris;
- Nermal SonoSofisms, Audience Prize winner at Forum 1996, Montreal. |
| Research Interests |
Lindborg's main research interests are CAAC (Computer-Assisted Analysis and Composition), interactive performance, rhetoric as a metaphor for composition, and the speaking-singing voice. Peer-reviewed research articles and chapters have been published by a.o. Causal Productions, eContact, Ircam-Delatour and LNCS-Springer Verlag
Current grants:
PerMagnus Lindborg (PI), Conradi I, Chavez M (2009-11). Exploring kinetoaudiovisual parameter mapping in virtual instrument performance and interactive installation (KAV). Tier1 grant #200604393R, $50,000 SGD, Academic Research Fund, Singapore.
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PerMagnus Lindborg (2010). Walking Bach Slowly (WBS). Research in spontaneous physical movement in response to sound stimuli and design of an interactive sound installation. IMI Art & Technology grant #M58B40000, $20,000 SGD, Institute for Media Innovation, NTU, Singapore.
Completed grants:
Koh, Joyce Beetuan (PI), Lindborg PM (co-PI), Khiew HC, Stromberg D, Lim WW, Wong S, Thio S (co-inv) (2010). PreparingOn the String. Research in artistic interpretation of aspects of string theory. With 25 collaborators. Art and Research Fund, National Arts Council, Singapore.
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Lindborg, PerMagnus (2009). Nosferatut. Music composition for film. With 10 collaborators. CLASS, #3,000 WKW-SC, NTU, Singapore.
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Lindborg, PerMagnus (2008). Metal.Blown.Plucked.Lit. Multimedia interactive performance-installation. With 5 collaborators. Tier 0, #8,360 SGD, ADM, NTU, Singapore. |
| Research Grant |
- Academic Research Fund Tier 1 (-)
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| Current Projects |
- Exploring Kinetoaudiovisual Parameter Mapping Strategies for Virtual Instrument Performance and interactive Installation
- Walking Bach Slowly
| Selected Publications | |
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