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This, the first video for the Swedish trio midaircondo has been lovingly directed by the hotly tipped rising star Hanna Elin Åhman. The result is an engaging piece of video art which draws the viewer into the mysterious and evocative world of midaircondo.

midaircondo are a Swedish trio (Lisa Nordström, Lisen Rylander and Malin Dahlström) fusing highly visual performance with improvised live electro acoustic music. These three gifted musicians realised during a knitting session that that they all had a similar urge to experiment with sound and widen their musical range. The three developed their unique sound through improvised jam sessions using saxophone, flute, vocals and all of course laptops and samplers. By further incorporating a plethora of unusual instruments and abstract recorded sounds, their jam sessions developed into structured and coherent improvisations.

The light touch of humanity that midaircondo’s improvised sound deftly moulds is a breath of fresh air in electronic music. Whilst harnessing incredible sound design skills, they also manage to inject what can sometimes appear cold and calculated with life and vibrant colour. However it would be difficult to list influences, as Lisa, Lisen and Malin have been performing and working with music for far too long to pick single artists. As much influenced by a stray radio broadcast or a glittering pop melody as the latest star-studded albums, midaircondo are a self-contained musical constellation.

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