Biography
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Carsten Bo Eriksen (a.k.a. mbd73) is a prize winning and award nominated composer. He works in the area between sound, space, image and form and works freely over genres, as a true renaissance artist. Soundart, installations, videoart, paintings and compositions go hand in hand. He's educated at the Royal Academy of Music as a composer (1997-2003), pupil of Professor Ib Nørholm, Ivar Frounberg and Hans Abrahamsen. As a painter he is selftaught. He had his debut from the extended studies program in composition in 2003. Furthermore he has studied at Berklee College of Music, Mass, USA. And has studied the balinese gamelan music in Ubud, Bali, Indonesia, with the musician Pak Tama. In 2004 he was granted by the Danish Arts Foundation with a 3 year working grant.
Since 1991 he has produced and established ensembles, among others the critical acclaimed ensemble Nordlys and art rockband Melonheads. He has established and been active in the realisation of music and media festivals like the World Music Days (1996) and ARTRA (2000).And he was a boardmember of the concert society for contemporary music Musica Nova (1997-2000). He's been appointed member of KODA's collective tape funds assets (2003/2004). He's been appointed jury member of ISCM (Danish section)(2000). In 2002 he was nominated for a Danish Music Award (grammy) for best chamber music release with his ensemble Nordlys on the record label DaCapo Records. In 2001 he was the 1st prize winner of the Danish Art Foundations electronica competition. In 2005 he won the 2nd prize for best journalism on the internet INSOMNIA, creating the sound. He's also committed to work with a broad scope of collaborators, as with multiscoped artist and singer Martin Hall, visual artist Jesper Fabricius, the symphony orchestra Copenhagen Philharmonics and Athelas Sinfonietta. He's been exhibited and performed on the most prestigious spaces in Danmark as the Museum of Modern Art Louisiana, Danish State Arts Museum, The Royal Library "black Diamond concerthall", Tivoli Concerthall, VEGA, Otto Braun Saal in Berlin. He has also been performed live and been aired on the Danish National Radio, and on other radiostations around Europe. He lives and work in Spain and Denmark. In 2009 he has established the Electro Acoustic Speaker Orchestra AIR and the concerts series EARUNIT, which invites and collaborate with various artists.
