Led by pianist Magnus Granberg, Skogen is a Swedish ensemble working at an intersection between contemporary chamber music and improvisation. The music, which originates from the interplay between composition and improvisation and between individual and collective processes, is a poetical practice which in subtle and seemingly paradoxical ways unifies order with chaos, unity with diversity and the past with the present.

The ensemble has released seven CDs on the renowned British record label Another Timbre and has performed at festivals such as Ultima (NO), Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (UK), Splitter Music Festival (DE) and Ulrichsberger Kaleidophon (AT).

Den svenska violinisten Eva Lindal spelar nutida och improviserad musik.

Hon var medlem i Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester från 1986 till 1998. Under sina år i orkestern knöt Eva band till gruppen Katzen Kapell och den nutida gruppen MA.

Sedan 1998 har Eva främst arbetat med små grupper, ofta i samarbete med dansare, poeter, skådespelare och bildkonstnärer.

2020 gav Eva och hennes syster Anna Lindal ut duoinspelningen Bäver, som hyllades av internationella kritiker. År 2024 släppte Eva och New York-pianisten Virg Dzurinko sitt andra duo-album: Hotel at the End of the World.

Angharad Davies is a Welsh violinist based in London working with free-improvisation, compositions and performance.

Her approach to sound involves attentive listening and exploring beyond the sonic confines of her instrument, her classical training and performance expectation.

Much of her work involves collaboration. She has long standing duos with Tisha Mukarji, Dominic Lash and Lina Lapelyte and plays with Common Objects, Cranc and Skogen. She has been involved in projects with Tarek Atui, Tony Conrad, Richard Dawson, Gwenno, Roberta Jean, Jack McNamara, Rie Nakajima, Tim Parkinson, Eliane Radigue, Georgia Ruth and J.G.Thirlwell.

Most of her records are released on Another Timbre but she also has releases on Absinth Records, allthatdust, Confrontrecords, Emanem, Potlatch, NI VU Ni CONNU and winds measure recordings. Her first orchestral piece was commissioned by LCMF in 2019 : I ble'r aeth y gwrachod i gyd....?/ Where did all the witches go...? She has since been commissioned by Explore Ensemble: Sitting with Emptiness (2022); GBSR duo: Empty Spaces II (2023) and will be making new pieces for andPlay, Dominic Lash and Heather Roche in 2025.

www.angharaddavies.com

Stina Hellberg Agback is a harpist and composer known for her innovative approach to jazz. She has performed extensively throughout Scandinavia with groups like Namna, SHA3K, and Trilobit, as well as in collaborations with Eva Lindal and Jonas Isaksson.

​Besides her own projects, Stina has played with a wide range of ensembles, including Mattias Risberg Mining Extended, Mariam the Believer, and 3 Glas. She's also a skilled orchestral musician, having performed with the Uppsala Chamber Orchestra and the Stockholm Wind Orchestra.

Stina has released acclaimed albums with Namna, SHA3K, and Trilobit, receiving positive reviews from publications like Downbeat, Orkesterjournalen, and Lira. Her music has also been featured in films and recordings by artists like Mattias Olsson, Matti Bye and I.B. Sundström.

Finn Loxbo är gitarrist med fokus på fri improvisation. Hans musik befinner sig oftast på endera sidan av två dynamiska extremer: ljudsvagt akustiskt eller mycket ljudstarkt. På den lågmälda sidan återfinner vi honom i hans egen ensemble Kommun, som soloakt och i samarbeten med t ex Skogen. Exempel från den ljudstarkare sidan är Kyosaku, Anna Högberg Extended Attack, och tidigare i band som Doglife, Strändernas svall och Fire! Orchestra.

Clarinettist specialising in contemporary music and extended techniques.

Ever since he was the drummer and percussionist in legendary band gul3 (Yellow3 in English), Henrik Olsson have made great contributions to the field of experimental music in Sweden. As composer and improviser, his curiosity and open-minded musical thought has brought him to a rich world of musical textures, quite often realized electronically through amplified sounds and with silence as a natural part of the musical result.

Toshimaru Nakamura's instrument is the no-input mixing board, which describes a way of using a standard mixing board as an electronic music instrument, producing sound without any external audio input. The use of the mixing board in this manner is not only innovative in the the sounds it can create but, more importantly, in the approach this method of working with the mixer demands. The unpredictability of the instrument requires an attitude of obedience and resignation to the system and the sounds it produces, bringing a high level of indeterminacy and surprise to the music. Nakamura pioneered this approach to the use of the mixing board in the mid-1990's and has since then appeared on over one hundred audio publications, including nine solo CD's.

He has performed throughout Europe, North America, Argentina, New Zealand, Australia, Korea, China, Singapore and Malaysia, performing and recording both as a soloist and in collaboration with numerous other musicians.