Fredrik Mathias Josefson
Electroacoustic music and sound-art.
Fredrik Mathias Josefson holds a Master's Degree in Electroacoustic Composition from the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, a Master of Fine Arts from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, and a Master of Science from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. He is currently undertaking doctoral artistic research at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg.
He is a member of Föreningen svenska tonsättare (FST), a member of Konstnärernas Riksorganisation (KRO), a member of Fylkingen and active at Elektronmusikstudion (EMS). He has, for many years, been involved in international experimental and electroacoustic music scenes, with over thirty album releases and over one hundred concerts.
Alongside his album and concert work, he has composed original scores for a number of films.
Fredrik Mathias Josefson is a sound artist based in Stockholm and Hamburg. Moljebka Pvlse, his principal project, first appeared on the Cold Meat Industry compilation Estheticks of Cruelty, followed by the full-length Sadalmelik on the same label. Since then the project has released a substantial body of work across labels including Drone Records, Eibon Records, Some Place Else, Taâlem, Greytone, Gears of Sand, Reverse Alignment, Cyclic Law, Zoharum, and Josefson's own Isoramara imprint.
The working method has remained consistent: sound is gathered in the world — the deserts of the American Southwest (Komoku, 2019), field expeditions in Israel (A Transformation, 2015), or, during the pandemic, virtual journeys through borrowed places (Borrowed Scenery: Appearance, 2021) — and then reconstructed at the Eleventh Planet studio into what one album described as an acoustic travel journal through a spectral landscape.
Moljebka Pvlse has performed live in Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia, Sweden, Ukraine, and the USA. Josefson's practice is rooted in the Stockholm experimental scene around Fylkingen and the Elektronmusikstudion (EMS), and informed by conceptual and minimal art.
His current doctoral research at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg centres on the Spacesizer, an agent-based instrument for spatializing sound in three dimensions — two sides of one inquiry: Moljebka Pvlse composes spaces to be inhabited, the Spacesizer builds instruments to navigate them.
Fredrik Mathias Josefson is a Stockholm-based sound artist, active for over twenty-five years. His long-running project Moljebka Pvlse builds slowly unfolding drone soundscapes from field recordings, acoustic sources, and electronics, treating listening as travel. He is currently a doctoral researcher at HfMT Hamburg, developing the Spacesizer — an agent-based instrument for three-dimensional sound spatialization.