M Wingren
About the Artist
M Wingren is a multimedia artist who creates audio-visual performances and game-like music systems. Their music falls into the broad category of experimental pop with sticky melodies, brutal sound design, and sporadic beat-driven structures. M’s performances are reactions to conventions within electronic music. The default often involves someone standing behind a laptop on stage, which can be indistinguishable from checking email. M has played with this inscrutability by posting to social media “live on stage” and by appropriating PowerPoint slides and Karaoke into their audio-visual performances. M also designs musical interfaces with the aim of creating more physically expressive musicianship. For example, by using a heart rate sensor to control the pulse of literal dance music and flashing lights. Recently, M has been releasing music in the format of web-browser games. These compositions explore the interactive, nonlinear, and multimedia potential of digital music. M holds a Masters in Sound and New Media from Aalto University School of Arts Design and Architecture. They have recently performed and exhibited at Berliner Festspiele’s 70th anniversary “The Sun Machine is Coming Down,” and at the Ars Electronica Festival for Art, Technology, and Society.
