Biography:
Risto Holopainen (b. 1970 i Sweden) studied composition in Härnösand, Sweden (1990-93) and at the Norwegian State Academy of Music with Lasse Thoresen and Yngve Slettholm (1994-98), and musicology at the university in Oslo (1999-2001), exploring some techniques of sound synthesis and signal processing. He was a co-editor of the Norwegian contemporary music journal Parergon, since its start in 1997. On rare occasions, he has been known to perform improvised music on keyboards and hawaii guitar, amongst others with the electronic trio (x,y,z). In 1992-1996 he contributed to the degeneration of swedish folk music as a pianist in the ensemble Sälta. Other activities include computer animation and composing music for dance in collaboration with choreographer Vivild Bergersen.
In 2008 his Garbage Collection was released on MERE records; soon after it was almost sold out. Currently he is a PhD research fellow at the Department of Musicology, University of Oslo, with a project on adaptive and self-organising synthesis.