Ralph Lundsten

Ralph Lundsten

Birth : 1936-10-06, Ersnäs, Norrbotten, Sweden

History

Ralph Lundsten is a Swedish composer of electronic music, as well as a film director, artist and author. He was born on 6 October 1936 in Ersnäs, Norrbotten, in northern Sweden, and now lives in Nacka on the outskirts of Stockholm, still close to the forest and the sea. His home is Castle Frankenburg, dating from 1878, a wooden fairytale mansion which also houses his famous picture and electronic music studio Andromeda. Since 1959 he has lived an independent life, creating his own personal musical language, and preparing original films and exhibitions. His song Out in the Wide World serves as the signature tune for Radio Sweden International broadcasts. During the 1950s Ralph Lundsten built his own electronic musical instruments and was one of the first pioneers in this field. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ralph Lundsten, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​

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Ralph Lundsten

Movies

Hans Arnold - Sorcerer of the Pen
Himself
Documentary on illustrator and artist Hans Arnold.
I huvet på n' Gamlin
Music
Documentary about the Swedish humorist, film maker and artist Yngve Gamlin
Like the wind, my longing fades
A portrait of the musician and composer Ralph Lundsten in a film about art, music and philosophy - a cosmic journey in Sweden in music and images.
Kvindesind
Music
A psychological drama. The action takes place within a few hours in a woman's life. She is burdened by the decision whether she should leave husband and child in favor of an American she has fallen in love with.
Walk On Water If You Can
Music
Literature graduate Orlando begins a love affair with the Foreign Ministry official Anders. She follows him to Argentina. There she learns that he is already married.
Elvis! Elvis!
Music
The adventures of a small boy (Elvis), his mother and a male friend.
Breaking Point
Music
Bob is an unassuming office worker and train enthusiast who leads a double life as a schizophrenic and misogynist killer. He teeters on the edge of reality. Television news reports encourage him in ways no one realizes.
Thriller: A Cruel Picture
Music
A young woman, muted after a sexual assault as a child, is trained to seek violent revenge on those who have wronged her after being kidnapped and forced to work as a prostitute.
Exposed
Music
Lena is a young woman in need of excitement and sexual satisfaction. Torn between her meek and innocent boyfriend Jan and the sadistic partygoer Helge, Lena‘s life is turned upside down when Helge take some nude photographs of her. These photos could destroy her life.
Love Is War
Music
In this film, Norwegian writer, director, cameraman and musician Ragnar Lasse has fashioned an intricate, exquisitely photographed and multilayered examination of the lives, problems and relationships of a father and this two children, a boy and a girl. The story ranges over a wide time period and is covered in multiple flashbacks and from a number of different points of view.
Do You Believe in Swedish Sin?
Music
A German sociologist goes to Sweden to investigate whether the Swedish sin is myth or not. He stations himself in a student home for girls. His fiancée in Berlin fantasizes about the study, and to allay her worries she packs her bags and goes to find him, to convince him to come home.
Reseminne
Music
Fragmentary images from a journey to the Alps.
Reseminne
Director
Fragmentary images from a journey to the Alps.
Hjärtat brinner
Music
A film that places the bright and dark sides of life close together. From an understatement beginning, the movie drives up to an ecstatic highlight with a love act between two young people. The orgasm becomes an enormous image flow into the crematorium's death machine.
Hjärtat brinner
Director
A film that places the bright and dark sides of life close together. From an understatement beginning, the movie drives up to an ecstatic highlight with a love act between two young people. The orgasm becomes an enormous image flow into the crematorium's death machine.
Hej natur
Music
Experimental depiction of nature.
EMS nr 1
Music
An abstract audiovisual poem by electronic musician and composer Ralph Lundsten.
Hej natur
Director
Experimental depiction of nature.
EMS nr 1
Director
An abstract audiovisual poem by electronic musician and composer Ralph Lundsten.
Komposition i tre satser
Director of Photography
A non-figurative color film.
Komposition i tre satser
Music
A non-figurative color film.
Komposition i tre satser
Director
A non-figurative color film.
The Pulse of the Big City
Director
An experimental film about the city of Stockholm.
Främmande planet
Music
The film is non-figurative, painted directly on the film strip.
Främmande planet
Director
The film is non-figurative, painted directly on the film strip.