Live Events and Recent Projects & Activities

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Five Fans For Sonic Protest And Kaffe


Concert at the Centre Culturel Suedois in conjunction with the Sonic Protest festival, Paris, December 9, 2008. Centre culturel suédois



Kaffe Matthews & Leif Elggren


Five Fans For Fylkingen. Thursday, November 27, 2008. Fylkingen 75 years anniversary, Stockholm.
www.fylkingen.se


Photo: Robert R Marsters www.krevlostandfoundministry.com



CHOP SHOP & LEIF ELGGREN


Saturday, November 1, 2008, 8pm. ISSUE PROJECT ROOM
 At the Old American Can Factory 
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor 
Brooklyn, NY 11215, USA here

Photo: Fabio Roberti





BY COLLUSION


Audio-visual performance as a part of the eARTS festival in Shanghai, China, October 18, 2008





YELLOW & BLACK


Exhibition at Jr. Konsthallen, Linköping, Sweden
16 Aug - 5 Oct 2008




Something Must Break in the framework of the alternative music festival OFF
in Myslowice, Poland. 7th - 11th of August 2008







ETT STRÄCK I RÄKNINGEN


LOTTA MELIN - LEIF ELGGREN - KRISTINE SLETTEVOLD.

Exhibition and performance at Gallery Niklas Belenius, Stockholm. April 24-27, 2008.




ILIOS Curating: "SDR Muestra de Arte Sonoro de Santander"

with: Olivia Block, Leif Elggren, ILIOS, Zbigniew Karkowski / Tetsuo Furudate, Carl Michael Von Hausswolff, Francisco Lopez, Elgaland-Vargaland.
5,6 April 2008: Santander, Spain.




The Church of St Jacob, Stockholm, March 21-23, 2008.
The Sudarium of St Veronica.
Installation and first performance.




MOVING FOREST


Berlin, transmediale.08 - CONSPIRE - Festival 30 Jan - 3 Feb 2008 - Opening 29 Jan 2008. Haus der Kulturen der Welt, John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin, Germany. www.transmediale.de

A durational sonica with citywide wifi transmission, February 1, 11:00 - 23:00 curated by Shu Lea Cheang + Martin Howse. Moving Forest is a 12 hour 5 act sonic performance to be intervened by an expandable citywide operatic manoeuver with public wifi and mobile technology. Derived from Kurosawa's film version of Macbeth, Spider Web Castle (aka Throne of Blood, 1957), Moving Forest renders the film's final sequences (12 minutes in length) into a 12 hour sonica of grand scale. Moving Forest presented by AKA THE CASTLE

AKA the castle is a temporal performance troop brought together to produce the 12 hour extravangaza Moving Forest. Conceived by Shu Lea Cheang and Martin Howse, AKA the castle pushes the network performance genre by gathering soundists, silk threaders, writers, visual artists, software artists, wifi fielders for a durational performance fueled with remorse, betrayal and a grand act of insurgency from people/s front.

The players: Castle (HKW):; omen [Mattin]; remorse [Leif Elggren] - concept/setup; betrayal [Kaffe Matthews]; overthrow [Joachim Montessuis] - details; return [Phill Niblock with Natalia Pschenitschnikova], and many others.




FLYING SICKNESS IN THE SKY


Choreographed by Lotta Melin. Moderna Dansteatern, Stockholm, October 17-18, 20-21, 24-28, 2007. Music by Leif Elggren. Set design by Leif Elggren and Lotta Melin. Dancer: Kristine Slettevold.




LAMPO #95


Chicago
February 24, 2007
Performance by Leif Elggren & Kevin Drumm

Photo: Angeline Evans



SOMETHING LIKE SEEING IN THE DARK


2007, 25 January 22:30
Concert w/ John Duncan
Netmage 07
Also included: Aki Onda/Oren Ambarchi/Alan Licht, Emiliano Montanari w/ David Lynch, Angelo Badalamenti, Enrico Ghezzi, Asja Bettin, shortcircuits with Thomas Pynchon, Paul Virilio, Hideo Kojima
Palazzo Re Enzo
Bologna, Italia
Organized by xing
Netmage07


John Duncan
Photo by Luca Ghedo



Celebration of a Revolution


Leif Elggren's "Celebration of a Revolution" screened at Sixth Annual Activating the Medium Festival 2006, San Francisco Art Institute.




Illusion is a Natural Condition


CD packaging design for Dave Phillips + R. H.Y. Yau collaboration "Illusion is a Natural Condition." Features a series of ten original drawings by Leif Elggren lithographed on individual cards. Released 2005 on Auscultare Research/Ground Fault Recordings. Artwork: Leif Elggren. Layout: R. Yau.
www.groundfault.net/
www.artnotcrime.net/dp
www.23five.org/rhy

Arranging for an Opening of a Teleport to Shangri-La


Leif Elggren performing "Arranging for an Opening of a Teleport to Shangri-La" at the sixth annual Activating the Medium festival, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
February 7, 2003. Photo by Joe Johnston



 



The Ghost Orchid

Leif Elggren narrated the spoken word passages for PARC's "The Ghost Orchid - An Introduction to EVP". The ParaPsychic Acoustic Research Cooperative [PARC], in association with Ash International, is proud to present the first ever fully comprehensive investigation into the paranormal phenomenon of EVP, otherwise known as Electronic Voice Phenomenon. Without doubt EVP falls into the category of the paranormal alongside other unexplained mysteries such as ufology, life after death & poltergeist activity. The listener is guided through a collection of strange and mysterious voices that have appeared without explanation onto the tapes of EVP researchers. Included with the CD is a 24 page booklet containing commissioned articles which cover the conflicting views surrounding the EVP. Actual voice samples are reproduced here for the first time on compact disc: Polyglot Voices, Public Service Broadcasting, Interruptions across the airwaves, Singing Voices, Instant Response Voices, and the extraordinary Alien Voices. The CD also includes a commentary by the artist Leif Elggren (in English), and recordings of the work of Raymond Cass, England’s leading EVP researcher, and original member of the Fortean Group, and the Latvian EVP researcher, Dr. Konstanin Raudive. This CD is available from the TouchShop here.

 

Find God's Name!

Find God's Name!

 

Touch Music & TouchRadio | Publishing & Licensing

Leif Elggren is exclusively published by Touch Music [MCPS].

He has also contributed a piece to TouchRadio.

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The Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland

King Leif l is one of the Kings of Elgaland-Vargaland, along with Carl Michael l. More information about the Kingdoms can be found here

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Discography

Leif Elggren product can be found in the TouchShop here


A full list of Firework Edition Records releases can be found here

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Biography & Photos




Leif Elggren (born 1950, Linköping, Sweden), is a Swedish artist who lives and works in Stockholm.

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Features & Press Coverage

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Yellow & Black | Permanent Installation

Yellow & Black
Permanent installation
13 Osward Road
London SW17

 

Yellow & Black

CLAIM

I hereby lay claim to this symbol, sign, icon, the combination of black and yellow, wherever it may appear, in this or any other world, in whatever shape, form, pattern or composition, be it civil or military. I hereby claim to be its originator and owner. (Leif Elggren 1977)

Photos, from 1978 to the present.

 

Ventilation



VENTILATION


More about ventilation here


Ventilation CD

 

Table of the Dead

TABLE OF THE DEAD

This table represent the Island of the Dead (Isola di San Michele) outside Venice, Italy. The table was first shown at the exhibition Isola di San Michele - The Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland at Gallery Niklas Belenius, Stockholm 16.02. - 10.03.2008. The table was also shown at the exhibition New Annexations, Mors Mössa Gallery, Göteborg, Sweden 23.08 - 14.09.2008

 

PHYSIOLOGICAL FREQUENCIES



PHYSIOLOGICAL FREQUENCIES


The first drawing in the ongoing series Physiological Frequencies started in 2004

 

The New Immortality

The New Immortality is a non-periodical tabloid paper, magazine or fanzine started in 2003. The New Immortality relates to the book with the same name by John William Dunne, London 1939. The New Immortality was also the title of an exhibition at Galleri Arton A in Stockholm, November 1990 by LE. The New Immortality is also the title of two seven inch vinyl releases by LE; the first released on Anckarström/Firework Edition in 1992 and the second released on Firework Edition Records in 1998. The New Immortality (the first seven inch) was cut with a drypoint needle and a record player. I was shouting loudly over and over again the words: "I am talking about if I only could talk!" The needle, resting on the wax in my gentle hand has hopefully registered something of the vibrations of my voice.

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