Hugger-Mugger

Sweden, b. 1999 by Maria Hägglund (1965), Catarina W Källström (1964) and Elinor Ström (1968).

MH & ES – Master of Fine Arts, The Department of Design And Crafts, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

CWK – Master of Fine Arts, University College of Arts Crafts and Design, Sweden.

First soundwork: First Born, 1999

It’s a mumbling, rumbling, tumbling in a raw huddle when Hugger-Mugger messes around and makes music.

Hugger-Mugger works with sound, music, performance and installations. The group has been active since the year of 1999 and has performed at festivals and in art galleries in Sweden, Norway and South Korea.

In their first public performance, Session nr.1 they gave a concert from a ordinary wardrobe equipped with a lot of loud speakers, aerodynamical effects and fireworks. They have transmitted their own radio shows from a gigantic radio made of corrugated cardboard, placed two hundred whooper cushions on a heavily trafficked pedestrians street and released a double CD, Begging for boogie, a rare and puzzling piece of DIY improv.

Hugger-Mugger’s music and lyrics are always very spontaneous and direct. All pieces are made just once. Live, directly into a Hitachi recorder with a built in microphone from the year of 1972. A confused heap of noisy, homemade sounds. Things keep on tumbling down until the final collapse. Sonic Bang!

They usually improvise around a theme or a question, to bring out a special energy or feeling. Unforgettable are jamsessions like " We got nothing to loose", "Saloondrunk" or "Far distant" which they recorded over a speakerphone in Elinors kitchen. Maria and Elinor jumping around in the kitchen with a keyboard and a drum-machine, and Catarina, pregnant, sitting on an oriental carpet in Falun, with a hurdy-gurdy ( built by an uncle of her newly married husband) in her knee. Knock on Wood! Silence Sucks …

Contact: mariahagglund65@hotmail.com

Links:

http://www.underhund.com/klubbvardag

http://www.fiberartsweden.nu/natgast/hu_mu01.html