Erik Klinga, b.1991 in Sandviken, Sweden, is a composer and musician. Klinga is known from the bands Simian Ghost, Light Vibes and Horse Show and has played in multiple projects as a drummer including acts such as Solen, Dolce and Mi von Ahn. He has a studio based practice and creates electronic music with an interest in developing works focusing on timbre, melody and harmony in repetition based form structures. Driven by curiosity in finding new sound relations he’s mainly working with synthesized and acoustic sources together with field recordings. A substantial part of his work involves working with modular synthesis in the Buchla format, on which he composes and performs live. His music moves within and between genres such as dark ambient, drone, minimalism, and electronica. Klinga has performed his music live at festivals and venues, nationally and internationally, at Norbergfestival, Malmö konstmuseum, Organ Sound Art Festival (Copenhagen), Mengi (Reykjavik), Ekko festival (Bergen), KET (Athens), Organ Sound Art Festival (Copenhagen), Inkonst (Malmö) and Thanatosis festival (Stockholm) amongst others. Erik holds a bachelor degree in Electroacoustic Composition at the Royal College of Music, Stockholm, and a masters degree in Music Creation,
at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory, Copenhagen.