Fylkingen

At the time, many of Fylkingen’s concerts took place at Moderna Museet, with a detour to other premises in Stockholm and around Scandinavia.

The programs from the 1960s and 1970s are filled with performances by international avant-gardes: John Cage, David Tudor, Iannis Xenakis, Pierre Boulez, Morton Subotnick, Ravi Shankar, Terry Riley, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Nam June Paik, Henri Chopin, La Monte Young, Pauline Oliveros, Max Neuhaus, Yvonne Rainer, Merce Cunningham, Antonin Artaud, Robert Morris (artist), Carolee Schneeman, Charlotte Moorman, side by side with major Swedish composers such as Åke Hodell, Lars-Gunnar Bodin, Öyvind Fahlström, Sten Hanson, Folke Rabe and Catherine Christer Hennix.

It is also around this time Fylkingen started to include much of the improvisational music of Sweden as well as early video screenings.

The visiting artists to the new stage at Münchenbryggeriet include among others, François Bayle, Brian Eno, Steina Vasulka, Merzbow, Chris Cutler, Kaffe Matthews, Genesis P-Orridge, Carsten Nicolai, Damo Suzuki, Geoff Leigh, Chris Watson, Andre Stitt, Tara Transistory, Gudrun Gut, etc.

The substantial development of contemporary dance over the past few decades could happen in Sweden thanks to Fylkingen’s open space.

Fyrec aims to present disc editions that take advantage of Fylkingen’s rich heritage of electronic and experimental art music, and also highlights interesting composers and sound artists from a conscious gender and norm-critical perspective.

The artists and researchers whose articles are presented in these journals include John Cage (1966), Pierre Schaeffer (1967, 1968), Alvin Lucier (1967), Nam June Paik (1967), John R. Pierce (1967), Kim Cascone (2003), Pauline Oliveros (2011), and Roy Ascott (2011), and Atau Tanaka (2019).

Fylkingen also has an extensive archive of audio and video recordings, posters, articles, publications and programs, since the fall of 2012 kept in the Music and Arts Library in Stockholm.