Stefan Östersjö
Professor tillika ämnesföreträdare
Forskningsämne: Musikalisk gestaltning
Avdelning: Musik medier och teater
Institutionen för ekonomi, teknik, konst och samhälle
Om mig
Biography
Stefan Östersjö is professor of Musical Performance and Head of subject at Luleå University of Technology, where he is head of GEMM (Gesture, Embodiment and Machines in Music), a research cluster developing interdisciplinary approaches to research in music. His latest book publication is "Shared Listenings: methods for transcultural musicianship and research" on Cambridge Elements (2023).
Östersjö received his doctorate in 2008 for a dissertation on interpretation and contemporary performance practice, and since then he has been engaged in senior research projects in Sweden (Three projects funded by the Swedish Research Council, out of which one is currently running, and one funded by MAW), Belgium (as a Research Fellow the Orpheus Institute since 2009) and the UK (funded by the AHRC). He became a research fellow at the Orpheus Institute in 2009 and was active as a researcher there until 2019, most notably in a research cluster concerned with subjectivity in musical performance, the final results of which were published in the form of two books in 2019 and 2020. A monograph discussing musician’s listening was published in 2020 on Leuven University Press. His research interests lie primarily in the development of inter-disciplinary collaboration, the possibilities for method development and the creation of new knowledge through the interaction between musicology,ethnomusicology (as in the Musical Transformations project funded by MAW), music psychology, music education and computational approaches, and specifically with an interest in the role of artistic research in such method development.
Östersjö is a leading classical guitarist specialising in the performance of contemporary music. As a soloist, chamber musician, sound artist, and improviser, he has released more than twenty CDs and toured Europe, the USA, and Asia. He has collaborated extensively with composers and in the creation of works involving choreography, film, video, performance art, and music theatre. Between 1995 and 2012 he was the artistic director of Ensemble Ars Nova, a leading Swedish ensemble for contemporary music. He is a founding member of the Vietnamese group The Six Tones, which since 2006 has developed into a platform for interdisciplinary intercultural collaboration. As a member of the Landscape Quartet he has developed an articulated performative practice within ecological sound art. As a soloist he has cooperated with conductors such as Lothar Zagrosek, Peter Eötvös, Mario Venzago and Andrew Manze.