Ralph Harold Lundsten (6 October 1936 – 5 July 2023) was a Swedish composer of electronic music, as well as a film director, visual artist, and author.
Lundsten was born and raised in Ersnäs, Norrbotten, in northern Sweden,[1] and lived in Nacka on the outskirts of Stockholm, still close to the forest and the sea.
[2] From 1959 he lived an independent life, creating his own personal musical language,[3] and preparing original films and exhibitions.
His song Out in the Wide World served as the interval signal for Radio Sweden International's shortwave broadcasts,[4] while a modified stanza from his 1970 song "Nattmara" was used by Sveriges Utbildningsradio during long breaks between its educational television programming on Sveriges Television (SVT) in the late 1970s.
During the 1950s Lundsten built his own electronic musical instruments and was one of the pioneers in this field.