​Andreas Hiroui Larsson is a Swedish artist, musician, researcher, and writer.

Between 2020 and 2024, Larsson co-led with Johan Jutterström and Anna Lindal and completed the artistic research project Lethe, which explored forgetfulness as an artistic method. The project was funded by the Swedish Research Council and hosted by Stockholm University of the Arts. He is co-editor with Jutterström and Lindal of the anthology Lethe: On Forgetfulness as a Guiding Principle in Artistic Processes (Stockholm University of the Arts 2024).

Larsson conducts an interdisciplinary practice within which he moves in-between the identities of the artist, the musician, and the writer. His method of (non-)idiomatic thought, with which he contextualises cognitive science, philosophy, and ontology of art, literature, and music, enables the concepts and the materials to metaphysically play the roles and fulfil the purposes of one another. Thus, in terms of ontology, his works are—be it contemporary music, experimental literature, or textual music scores—as much works of music and philosophy as they are works of visual art. Larsson is a member of several critically acclaimed contemporary music ensembles, and he is the author of novels, and works on aesthetics, forgetfulness, music and site, ontology, and philosophy of mind.

Praise for his album Seduced by (a) last year (Thanatosis Produktion 2022):

“Enriching, intelligent and hugely rewarding.”
—Electronic Sound

“Allora, potremmo dire: la musica filosofeggia, il discorso filosofico diventa una performance artistica, e l’arte suona.”
—Music Map

“[E]n dialog mellan avantgardistiskt tonspråk och vad som känns som olika anföranden från diverse seminarieföreläsningar. Ibland fångas man av musikinspelningarna och ibland av innehållet i de akademiska utläggningarna vilket bildar en slags växelverkan när det gäller vem eller vad som tar platsen som det musikaliska i verket.”
—Nutida Musik

“Es geht dabei um fields of inquiry external to language und um non-linguistic performative acts, die dennoch auf ihre Weise Sinn machen.”
—Bad Alchemy

“A complex and dense, curious artefact; equally captivating and disorienting.”
—The Sound Projector

“Un lavoro serebrale e complesso incentrato sull’interdisciplinarietà di voci, impro jazz ed electro.”
—Il Manifesto

“Resultatet är ett fascinerande multimediaverk eller en text-ljud-bild-komposition med improvisation om man så vill. Ett intressant sätt att arbeta konstnärligt [...] samtidigt som det är experimentellt och utforskande.”
—Orkesterjournalen

Larsson's works have been published by Firework Edition and Firework Edition Records (SE), Stockholm University of the Arts (SE), Peter Lang (DE/US), Nutida Musik (SE), Relative Pitch Records (US), Lethe (SE/NO), Found You Recordings (SE), Olof Bright (SE/AT), Thanatosis Produktion (SE), Ideell Edition (SE), Pink Pamphlet (US/SE), Haphazard Music (SE), Ermatell (RU), and FMR (GB). His works are held in the collections of The Nobel Library of the Swedish Academy (SE), Princeton University Library (US), Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki (GR), University Library Dresden (DE), Stockholm Public Library (SE), and Sachsska Children's Hospital in Stockholm (SE).


Education

Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, Postgraduate Studies Philosophy in the Context of Art (2016–17); Uppsala University, Undergraduate Studies Aesthetics (2016–17); Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Diploma Studies Performative and Textual Sculpture (2013–15); Pernby College of Art, Stockholm, Undergraduate Studies Painting and Sculpture (2011–13); Royal College of Music, Stockholm, Undergraduate and Graduate Studies Jazz and Improvised Music (2006–10, 2018–20); Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, Undergraduate Studies Generative Improvisation and Experimental Composition (2008–09)


Work

Artist, musician, researcher, and writer (2006–); board member of the Association for Free Improvised Music in Stockholm, FRIM (2008–11)


​Awards and Grants

Swedish Arts Grants Committee (2021, 2022, 2023), Swedish Research Council (2020), Helge Ax:son Johnson (2017), Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien (2015), Swedish Arts Council (2011), Musikens Hus Vänner Uppsala (2008), Swedish Jazz Federation (2004, 2006, 2008)


Discography

Tallbarr, taltrast (Emil Strandberg, 2025, Haphazard Music), Plays Carter, Plays Mitchell, Plays Shepp (STHLM Svaga, 2024, Thanatosis Produktion),  1305 (Kasper Agnas, 2023, Haphazard Music), Tonpoem 2021–2022 (Emil Strandberg, 2023, Haphazard Music), Seduced by (a) last year (Andreas Hiroui Larsson, 2022, Thanatosis Produktion), Some of Them Were Never Unprepared (Alex Zethson Ensemble, 2021, Relative Pitch Records/Thanatosis Produktion), Vending Machine (Joakim Forsgren and Andreas Hiroui Larsson, 2021, Thanatosis Produktion), Ismalfa (J/L Duo featuring Adrian Knight and Frew Elfineh Taha, 2020–21, Lethe/Thanatosis Produktion), Bells and whistles (STHLM Svaga, 2020, Found You Recordings), LETHE (J/L Duo, 2018, Firework Edition Records), Varangian Guests (Martin Küchen Trespass Trio, 2017, Ermatell), Lovsång och hemlighet/Cerchio (J/L Duo, 2011, Olof Bright), Flora Can't See, Hear or Speak but She Can Feel (Boréal, 2011, Pink Pamphlet), Acksjöns kapell (Crime Scenes, 2009, FMR)


Exhibitions

​Vending Machine (with Joakim Forsgren, Kulturhuset Stadsteatern, Stockholm 2021), Broken Shadows/Bokens alla sidor (with Johanna Arve, KHIMAIRA 2018), Public Art Commission (with Johanna Arve, Sachsska Children's Hospital, Södersjukhuset, Stockholm 2017–18), Dagar mot dig (with Johanna Arve, University of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm 2016), ​Orientering och sanning (Kosmisk kastrering IV, Stockholm 2015)


Movie and Theatre Soundtracks

Tove (Helsinki-Filmi 2020), Manhattanprojektet (Unga Klara 2020)


​Bibliography

Lethe: On Forgetfulness as a Guiding Principle in Artistic Processes (co-editor, Stockholm University of the Arts 2024), Souvenir (Firework Edition 2023), Manès Sperber Park—Parkgasse—Schillerplatz (Ideell Edition 2022), Shadowboxing (Firework Edition 2022), Education (Firework Edition 2020), Essäer om europeisk estetiks epistemologiska relativisering (Lethe 2018)​


Research Papers and Conference Presentations

The Voice of Forgetfulness Speaks (Stockholm University of the Arts 2024), Lethe (International Symposium on Forgetfulness in Artistic Processes, Stockholm University of the Arts 2023), Forgetting That Which We Play: On Improvisation, Analysis, and Forgetfulness in Relation to Playing and Replaying from Memory (2023), Lethe (Research Week, Stockholm University of the Arts 2023), Lethe (Alliances & Commonalities, International Research Conference, Stockholm University of the Arts 2022), Lethe (Research Week, Stockholm University of the Arts 2022), Existerar icke-idiomatisk improvisation? (Nutida Musik 2021), Två grafiska partitur (Nutida Musik 2021), Seduced by (a) last year: Interdisciplinary Music Motivated by Non-Idiomatic Improvisation, The Non-Productive Attitude, and Pluralist Aesthetics (Royal College of Music in Stockholm 2020), Ett ontologiskt perspektiv på samtida musik (Nutida Musik 2018), On Roland Barthes' Concept of Music (What is a Mask?, International Philosophy Conference, Royal Institute of Art and Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy 2017), An Alternative Interpretive Model of Non-Linguistic Performative Acts  (2016), (a) space revisited (Swedish Arts Grants Committee 2014), Major and Minor Contextualization, Interpretation and Institutionalization (Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien 2014), Non-Idiomatic Improvisation (Princeton University 2009)


Contact 

[email protected]

Andreas Hiroui Larsson (2024)

Larsson is co-editor with Johan Jutterström and Anna Lindal of the anthology Lethe: On Forgetfulness as a Guiding Principle in Artistic Processes. The book is published by Stockholm University of the Arts, as part of the university's publication series X Position. Contributors to the volume include Andreas Hiroui Larsson, Johan Jutterström, Anna Lindal, Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback, and Christian Wolff (2024)

His metaphysical novel Souvenir is designed by Christoph Steinegger/Interkool and published by Firework Edition (2023)

As a culmination of the research project Lethe, Larsson curated with Anna Lindal and Johan Jutterström an International Symposium on Forgetfulness in Artistic Processes, 2–4 March, at Stockholm University of the Arts. Invited speakers were among others: Freya Bailes (Associate Professsor in Music Psychology, University of Leeds), Christian Wolff (Composer, Strauss Professor Emeritus in Music, Dartmouth College), Rögnvaldur Ingthorsson (Associate Professor in Philosophy, University of Helsinki), and Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback (Professor in Philosophy, Södertörn University). Photograph by Shauheen Daneshfar (2023)

His chapter "Manès Sperber Park—Parkgasse—Schillerplatz" is included in People and Places, a new anthology on music and site. The volume is edited by John Chantler and published by Ideell Edition (2022)

Larsson's album of interdisciplinary music Seduced by (a) last year is released by Thanatosis Produktion (2022)

His novella Shadowboxing is designed by Christoph Steinegger/Interkool and published by Firework Edition (2022)

Joakim Forsgren and Larsson's album Vending Machine is released by Thanatosis Produktion on 11 June, and is available in a vending machine at Kulturhuset Stadsteatern until 11 August. The installation is part of An Infinite Love, an exhibition project in three parts presented by Per Hüttner, Barbara Polla, and Joakim Forsgren, in collaboration with SKF/Konstnärshuset, Kulturhuset Stadsteatern, KL.9, and Vision Forum. Photograph by Jean-Baptiste Béranger (2021)

His work Re-take Babel (After Willem Oorebeek) is featured in Claes Entzenberg's monograph on art and interpretation, The Question of Understanding Otherwise: Rehabilitating the Interpretation of Art, published by Peter Lang (2021)

Larsson's performative short story Education is designed by ​Christoph Steinegger/Interkool and published by Firework Edition (2020)

​© Andreas Hiroui Larsson 2025