Ragnar Grippe

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Ragnar Grippe

born 1951 is a Swedish composer having studied at the Royal Music Academy in Stockholm, the University of Stockholm, Groupe de Recherches Musicales in Paris, France, McGill University Montreal Canada.

Grippe started with cello at the Royal Academy but found an interest in electronic music while at Stockholm University

Grippe's work haas taken him from the pure electronic pieces to film scores using Buchla synthesizer in the movie Kejsaren ( the Emperor ) to modern Dance with choreographers like Susan Buirge, Carolyn Carlson, PaoloBortoluzzi to one of Sweden's most well known film theme -

Jönssonligan.

Collaborations with artists like Uno Svensson at the Royal Academy of Beaux Arts in Stockholm to Tobias Rylander with his architectural light in the work Lumièr Étrange.

Lectures at Cal Arts and University of California Santa Barbara has also found its time, radio programs as interviewer and interviewee

Ragnar Grippe also uses a virtual acoustic technique calle

Double Exposure Virtual Acoustics. Using different virtual acoustical rooms on top of each other the reference och the sound source is lost and hence we get a different enhanced stereophonic experience.

Many compositions from Grippe's hand are meant to be live diffused during concert over a great number of speakers.

Crushing Silence from 2012 is the first using Double Exposure Virtual Acoustics

The Cellist

Sculpting Moments

La Disparition

Ligne de Faille

the Moment

are some of the compositions from the Grippe catalogue

Working in his own studio in Stockholm Grippe will release a number of records some of them with composu´tions as old as 30 years which will now become accessible again for the audience

Grippe has written electronic music, piano concerto, chamber music and a very big number of electronic compositions which use references to the classical music with the language of the electronic music. Tonal elements have always made a part in Grippe's compositions.