Igor

Mikael Strömberg / Igor has been working with sounds and syntheses since the 1970s. He has written electronic music for art flights and smoke sculptures, exhibited entire cities as sound sculptures, designed sound for trucks, started a sound atlas for endangered sounds, etc. Musically there are influences from German Kraut, ethno, early electron music, "classical" music and sound art.
For many years he has collaborated with cartoonist and writer Joakim Pirinen, and together they have created both radio theater and a series of albums, such as "Africa" ​​(2005), "The Wonderful Life of Birds" (2006), "Beauty Murder" (2008) and the story "Gonki" (2017) at Erik Axl Sund Rec.
Under his alias Igor, Strömberg has released several concept albums, all with a special soundscape and history. "Fast & Slow" (2015) contains music that Strömberg "heard" when he was lying on the operating bed and in the respirator in the spaces between sleep and wakefulness, when in 2012 he suffered acute aortic dissection. "Kyllaj" (2018), the suggestive music is based on recorded ocean waves from the world's oceans, especially eastern Gotland.
"The Unseen Film" is an hour of audio cinema. The music is based on field recordings made in St. Petersburg's Orthodox churches and around the Nevsky Prospect boulevard.
The box "Umf" with four vinyls is a tribute to two major sources of inspiration: the Dadaist Hugo Ball and the German kraut pioneers Cluster.