Anders Hultqvist, Professor em, University of Gothenburg. Hultqvist’s artistic research has mainly been within the fields of Urban and rural sound studies, Musical creation/interpretation, and Ecological Sound Art. Research projects, as well as artistic compositional work, frequently takes as its point of departure a combination of artistic, literary, cognitive, physiological, and social perspectives. Hultqvist’s various artistic projects consists of works for orchestra, chamber music, sound installations, choral works, musical drama, electroacoustic works, as well as film and theatre music. Also curating and producing musical and scientific activities as festival director, conference organizer, and journal editor.