AUTORHYTHM

Stockholm

Autorhythmic cells function automatically without the need of instructions from the brain. Joakim Forsgren (b. 1981 in Skutskär) moves freely between music and visual arts. After being diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease at age 33 he started making electronic music as AUTORHYTHM. The compositions drew from current research how sound can affect the human body down to the cellular level asking the curious question: what would the synthesisers play themselves if the artist would no longer be able to control them. Songs for the Nervous System was first presented at the exhibition Swedish Ecstasy at Bozar in Brussels, 2023. Swedens biggest newspaper, Dagens Nyheter, gave it 4/5: ”This is electronic instrumental music filled with warmth and, well, hopefulness. The limitation that a lifelong illness can entail has been transformed here into weightlessness.[…] You can refer to 70s pioneers like Kraftwerk or Cluster, but these 36 minutes land directly in the present.” In 2024 remixes were released by dub legend Scientist, Art Alfie and Pink River Dolphins.