Herman Müntzing

Herman Müntzing is a Swedish musician, composer and educator whose work moves between freely improvised music and the invention of new musical instruments. Following early work as a bass guitarist, he developed the flexichord, a self-built amplified string instrument that allows unconventional playing gestures and sound combinations.

Since the 1990s he has performed and taught in experimental music, working with Swedish and international collaborators. His use of the flexichord reflects an interest in making the construction and limitations of an instrument part of the compositional process. Creative Sources documents his practice in a collaborative improvising context.