About
Musician, composer, artist-researcher.
Working at the intersection of improvisation, listening, and relational ecology — and at the edge of what the academic format usually allows.
I am a performing musician and composer working across contemporary, improvisation, electro-acoustic and jazz idioms — often in collaboration with other art forms (dance, circus, visual art). Several albums explore new terrains in the Nordic jazz and experimental improvisation scenes, partly inspired by studies in North-Indian and other non-European traditions. I play the acoustic piano, keyboards, live electronics, hand drums, and a retuned harp zither.
What keeps drawing me back is the question of how a group can sense together — how listening becomes a form of collective orientation, and that orientation opens something that none of the individuals could have reached alone.
Since 2016 I am Senior Lecturer in Improvisation at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm (KMH), and was Director of the Master's programme in Jazz 2021–24. I hold academic degrees in History of Religions from Stockholm University, with doctoral work focused on Deleuzian philosophy, embodiment, and ritual studies — a thread that quietly feeds back into the music in ways that are often more felt than spoken.
What draws me, again and again, is the question of how groups can think and create together. My current research circles co-creation and improvisation; listening ecologies and postdisciplinary sanctuaries; transdisciplinarity across art forms and between philosophy and science; decoloniality; and neurodiversity. More recently, this has extended toward an inquiry into how particular practices of listening can become a form of sanctuary-making — a relational reorientation in the middle of things. Ongoing projects include AMIS (2024–26, KK Foundation) and a growing body of writing — Architectures of the Otherwise, Relational Orientation, Becoming Rain (forthcoming, Edinburgh UP) — building on and extending Music in Disorder (2016–19, Swedish Research Council).
Beyond the institutional frame: tending a garden, exploring what a neurodivergent practice of meditation might be, and reading Isabelle Stengers, Erin Manning, and Brian Massumi. The thinking, the playing, and the growing keep informing each other.
Letters welcome — klas@nevrin.se
