Bio

Erik Natanael Gustafsson is a musician, coder, composer and new media artist. His work brings the vulnerable and the invisible to the foreground through the use of sensitive sonic material and intricate software processes. We sit down with the tiny, the invisible, and the fragile to unveil a reverent and enchanted view of the world.

Erik has built several digital musical instruments, among them the neod, created public audiovisual installations, released a sound synthesis library, Knyst, and has written and produced music for short films, for which he received the award for Best Original Music, Novemberfestivalen 2016. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Composition from the University of Gothenburg and a Master of Arts in Art and Technology from the University of Limerick.

Since October 2019 he is active in the re|thread collective at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, bringing the invisible software that powers society to the ears and eyes of citizens through music, visualisations and interactive installations.