Erik Lindgren
Erik Lindgren received his ba in Music from Tufts University in 1976 where he worked with T.J. Anderson. In 1974–1975 he spent his junior year abroad in London studying composition at the Guildhall School of Music with Alfred Nieman and piano with Birgette Wild. Lindgren received an ma in music composition and piano performance from The University of Iowa in 1977 where he studied with Donald Jenni, Richard Hervig and Peter Lewis.
As a contemporary classical composer, Lindgren has a catalog of over six dozen works, ranging from solo piano pieces to chamber music to orchestral works. He also owns Foot Foot Music, bmi that publishes all of his original compositions.
In 1978, Lindgren established Sounds Interesting Productions, a commercial recording studio and music production company based in Cambridge, Ma. In 1998, he relocated his facility to Middleborough, Ma. National and regional credits include original scores for all three networks, PBS, Eastpak, Boston Globe, Basketball Hall of Fame, Jordan Marsh, Prentice-Hall, and the Christmas Tree Shops. In 2009, Sounds Interesting Studios expanded with engineers Rob Pemberton and Brian Cass. Lindgren also markets The Well-Tempered Music Library that consists of seven cds of stock commercial music that he composed and produced. Read more…
Since 1980, Lindgren has been a founding member of the new music ensemble Birdsongs of the Mesozoic that Billboard Magazine described as “cacophony meets classicism in a mesmerizing instrumental venture into the space age jungle.” The quartet has toured extensively throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe and held residencies at Dartmouth College, Emory University, Duke, UNCA, Massachusetts College of Art, and Kennesaw State University. Birdsongs has recorded eleven cds for the Rykodisc, Cuneiform, Ace of Hearts, NEARfest, and PEL labels. The group has collaborated with Duplex Planet editor/NPR correspondent David Greenberger on 1001 Real Apes and a cd of that project came out in 2006. Also in 2006, the group collaborated with Atlanta bass baritone Oral Moses and released a cd of Extreme Spirituals. In 2009, Cuneiform released a 2-cd retrospective Dawn of the Cycads which contains Birdsongs’ complete Ace of Hearts recordings circa 1983–’87 plus unreleased material. This release was supported by an East Coast tour that summer which included original member Roger Miller. Read more…
For 35 years, Lindgren has run the ARF! ARF! label which has released over six-dozen archival cds documenting ;60s Garage/Psychedelic Rock and “Outsider Music.” ARF! ARF! has issued four cd retrospectives by his ’80s eclectic studio group Space Negros. Lindgren has also produced over one hundred records for such diverse artists as Willie Loco Alexander, the Turbines, the Cynics and Ed “Moose” Savage and his Litany of Complaints. Read more…