Tommy Zwedberg (1946–2021, Stockholm)

After a few years as a trumpeter, he studied music at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, where he also worked at the newly founded EMS (Electronic Music Studio).
Later he had his own studio on a boat in the Baltic Sea.
In addition to instrumental compositions and works for ballet, he also created a whole series of electro-acoustic pieces that are characterized by wit and intensity.

HANGING (1979, stereo, 16min)
The piece uses a Swedish folk instrument, a type of lyre or zither, played with a fiddlestick.

AND IT KILLED HIM TWICE (1995, stereo, 10min)

BAVARDS (1986, stereo,10min)
“Bavarde is a work for laughter and the silence that follows laughter …. Bavarde is made of a concrete mass of sounds such as woodwinds, strings and the sound given off by a steel coil of a lamp. This material has then been processed and tossed out in ‘free fall – the catcher/listener decides how the landing will be …”

source: CD