PER ARVIDSSON-BREMMERS was born on the island of Frösö in Jämtland on the 7th July, 1959. He took the composition course at the Gothenburg College of Music from 1985 to 1990, studying with Mikael Edlund, Bo Holten and Åke Parmerud. He composes both notated music and electro-acoustic music.

Arvidsson-Bremmer’s background consists of various forms of improvised and aurally based music. He began to be interested in art music after coming in contact with the music of Charles Ives, Anton Webern and György Ligeti. As a performer he then devoted his time to classical guitar-playing, focusing on new repertoire composed since 1960, after which he became increasingly interested in composing.

Arvidsson-Bremmers attaches great importance to the individual gesture and detail and only makes use of pitch-based relationships as structural elements to a limited extent. Form can equally well be built up of contrasts consisting of varying degrees of density, order and tape width, and can also depend on the way a gesture is presented and on its surroundings. The composer says that traditional concepts such as monody, homophony, heterophony and polyphony also play an important part in this context.