Max Käck
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I was born in 1951 in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden. I studied cello in Härnösand and in Folkwang Hochschule, Essen, Germany. From 1975 until 1978 I played the cello in the orchestra of Stora Teatern, in Gothenburg. I also studied composition with Torsten Sörenson, Sven-Eric Johanson and Rune Lindblad. From 1979 till 1986 I worked as a freelance composer within electroacoustic music and multimedia. After that I studied musicology and philosophy for some years at the University of Gothenburg. 1990-1997 I was editor of the cultural magazine Ny Kultur.
From 2003 to 2019 I was artistic director and producer for Kalvfestivalen, a festival for new music in the village Kalv. I also started Ubbhult Barockfestival, a festival for music from the baroque. I have worked as producer for among others ensemble Gageego!. As a composer I mainly work with chamber music for solo instruments and ensembles. I was elected a member of The Society of Swedish Composers in 1983.
In my compositions I have been working with tonal, modal, 12-tone, serial, aleatoric and algorithmic techniques. I now use my own method, the result of my musical and human experiences. My prime sources of inspiration are baroque music, Balinese gamelan and certain forms of minimalism.
Instrumento Solo
Prologos α - (2020)
Prologos β - (2020)
Stilleben med solnedgång Still Life with Sunset (2006)
Få av båda Few of both (1999)
Preludium Prelude (1980)
Ensamble de Cámara (5 - 9 instrumentos)
Väven, rummet The fabric, the room (2019)
SEJ in memoriam - (2018)
Avlyssnade ohörda Eavesdropped Unheard (2014)
Alba Patera - (2003)
Pavonis Mons - (2003)
Grupo de Cámara ( 2 - 4 instrumentos )
Canon à 3 Omaggio a JD Zelenka - (2018)
Fyra fragila fraser Four Fragile Phrases (2017)
Fragment 30 - (2017)
Andra kransen Second Corona (2008)
Studier i tonens vibration Studies in the Vibration of Tone (2008)
Sonatkrans Sonata Corona (2002)
Beröring The touch (1978)
Andra kransen Second Corona (2008)
Avlyssnade ohörda Eavesdropped Unheard (2014)
Beröring The touch (1978)
Canon à 3 Omaggio a JD Zelenka - (2018)
Få av båda Few of both (1999)
Fragment 30 - (2017)
Fyra fragila fraser Four Fragile Phrases (2017)
Pavonis Mons - (2003)
Preludium Prelude (1980)
Prologos α - (2020)
Prologos β - (2020)
SEJ in memoriam - (2018)
Sonatkrans Sonata Corona (2002)
Stilleben med solnedgång Still Life with Sunset (2006)
Studier i tonens vibration Studies in the Vibration of Tone (2008)
Tilblivelser Becomings (2017)
Väven, rummet The fabric, the room (2019)