Artist: Öyvind Fahlström
Title: Öyvind Fahlström I Etern – Manipulera Världen / Öyvind Fahlström On The Air – Manipulating The World
Label: Fylkingen Records
Cat nr: FYCD 1016-1 1016-2
Format: 2xCD & Book
Style: Radio play/Spoken Word/Music Concréte
Enclosed in a 336 pages book published by Sveriges Radios Förlag (ISBN: 91-522-1817-1). It is written in Swedish and English by Teddy Hultberg. The CD’s were released by Fylkingen Records only together with the book. The book itself is enclosed in a slipcover. The Swedish texts on the recordings are translated into English in the book.
“Birds In Sweden” (1963) was produced by Öyvind Fahlström in collaboration with sound engineer Erik Winlöf at the Swedish Radio studios in the second half of 1962. The work was broadcast on January 14, 1963 as part of the monthly programme “Nattövning” (Night Manoeuvres), hosted by Börje Lindell.
The radio serial “The Holy Torsten Nilsson” (1966) was composed in 1965. The work consists of 34 chapters and was divided into five parts of different length, broadcast between 4.2.1966 and 4.3.1966 on Swedish Radio’s programme 2, on friday evenings from 10 p.m.
“The Holy Torsten Nilsson” was originally released by Sveriges Radio in 1968 on a 90-minute reel of tape with excerpts from the serial.
- Engineer Erik Winlöf
- Producer – Erik Winlöf (tracks: 1-1), Ingrid Hiort Af Ornäs (tracks: 1-2 to 2-12), Öyvind Fahlström(tracks: 1-1)
- Voice – Erik Winlöf (tracks: 1-2 to 2-12), Magnus Banck (tracks: 1-2 to 2-12)
- Voice [The Boy] – Thomas Ungewitter (tracks: 1-2 to 2-12)
- Voice [The Girl] – Emelie Lagergren (tracks: 1-2 to 2-12)
- Written-By, Composed By, Voice – Öyvind Fahlström
Tracklist
| Birds In Sweden | ||
| 1-1 | Birds In Sweden | 29:28 |
| The Holy Torsten Nilsson | ||
| 1-2 | Chapter 1, Ö.F. Eavesdrops | 4:39 |
| 1-3 | Chapter 2, The Laser | 3:00 |
| 1-4 | Chapter 5, First Visit To The Institution | 3:43 |
| 1-5 | Chapter 6, Erlander’s Legacy | 7:24 |
| 1-6 | Chapter 7, Lee And Raymond Wood | 10:09 |
| 1-7 | Chapter 8, With Erlander | 3:24 |
| 1-8 | Chapter 9, The Pleasure Yacht | 6:49 |
| 1-9 | Chapter 14, Happening In Shanghai | 8:51 |
| 2-1 | Chapter 18, My Undresses Lee | 5:57 |
| 2-2 | Chapter 22, My Is Interrogated | 5:51 |
| 2-3 | Chapter 23, Lee Awakens At The Graveside | 7:48 |
| 2-4 | Chapter 25, Sweden Gets The Upper Hand | 3:54 |
| 2-5 | Chapter 26, Attempt On Palme’s Wife | 7:09 |
| 2-6 | Chapter 27, The Stylites | 3:14 |
| 2-7 | Chapter 28, Sweden The Underdog | 3:38 |
| 2-8 | Chapter 31, The Sore Spot | 2:00 |
| 2-9 | Chapter 32, Ö. Enters På | 6:38 |
| 2-10 | Chapter 33, Wood In Kina | 5:17 |
| 2-11 | Chapter 34, Siamese Twins | 11:42 |
| 2-12 | Chapter 35, Lo’s Second Explanation | 11:17 |
