
Fredrika Gullfot
Born in 1967 in Bern, Switzerland.
It feels preposterous to call myself a composer. I explore various kinds of sonic materials to extract musical meaning. I am mainly driven by curiosity, and a fundamental instinct to see structure and patterns in seemingly random complexity and vastness.
I am excited about existential interfaces, life, time. Concepts not to be described by language or mathematical formulae, but by music. My role is to explore and interpret. And sometimes just crying out loud.
My educational background reflects my curiosity and desire to go deep. I have a diploma in Assyriology, Classical Archaeology and Comparative Religion from Uppsala University, and studied Mathematics and Computer Science at Stockholm University. I have a PhD in Biotechnology from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. I have studied Music Production at AP Academy in Stockholm, Music and Sound Design at Dalarna University, and Electroacoustic Music at EMS in Stockholm.
My musical pedigree runs five generations deep. The story has it I was already kicking around to Stravinsky’s Firebird while still in my mother’s belly. She recently found some scores I had written as a preschooler. So I am back where I came from.