Mattias Petersson

Mattias Petersson is a composer and performer based in Stockholm. He is part of the vibrant computer music scene with a personal take on live coding and modular synthesis. His music has been performed worldwide and released on labels like Hallow Ground, Moving Furniture Records, CO-DEPENDENT, IDEAL Recordings, and Fylkingen records. He works primarily with electronic music but has also written mixed pieces and chamber music, a number of operas and music for dance performances.

Mattias is also a senior lecturer and director of subject at the electroacoustic composition department at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. He holds a PhD in Music Performance, and ss an artistic researcher he is part of GEMM))) – a research cluster at Luleå University of Technology, focusing on Gesture, Embodiment and Machines in Music.

Petersson has been working with various computer music tools and analog modular systems since 1999 and is particularly interested in how the instrument can manifest itself as a composition, and how digital and analog technology can aid in realtime explorations of such compositions.