FRID & FRID
Frid & Frid is a boutique production studio in Stockholm.
It was founded in 2010 as a musical collaboration between the brothers Karl and Pär Frid.
Recent works include the music for Swedish drama features and television series such as Allt och Eva (All and Eve), Pleasure and Sommaren 85 (Dreaming of England).
Today Frid & Frid also consist of collaborators and co-workers Ludvig Klint and Anna Hylander.
Frid & Frid strive to work on the highest level with artist collaborations across disciplines.
With varied backgrounds in composing, performing, thinking and producing Frid & Frid form a unique team, specializing in tailor-made cutting-edge music production, as well as audio-visual story telling resulting in productions such as documentaries, commercials and IP development.
Karl and Pär are members of The European Film Academy.
PÄR
With a background as a classical composer, Pär tends to work beyond the conventional separation of musical genres, art forms, and intellectual tasks. Besides focusing on his role as a composer, Pär also lends his creativity and heart to IP development and music business development in various roles.
Early in his career, Pär studied in Gothenburg, CNMAT UC Berkeley, and in Paris at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et Danse and the research institute IRCAM (Centre Georges Pompidou) with full scholarships from the French State and the Swedish Royal Academy of Music in 2003-04. Since then, his music has been performed worldwide. Today, Pär's musical catalog includes around 400 works, continually pushing musical, aesthetic, and technical boundaries. One of Pär's pieces, "Déjà vu, over and over again," featured on the album "Unheard of Again" from Phono Suecia, won a Swedish Grammy Award in 2010.
His latest work, Pär's first symphony, utilizes sophisticated spectral tracking methods of acoustic signals derived from endangered bird songs. This symphony will be part of a new album featuring works commissioned by conductor Christian Karlsen for symphony orchestra, soon to be recorded…
KARL
Karl Frid (b. 1979) studied classical music at the Royal College of Music in London with trombone as his main instrument, before making a musical u-turn. He went to study afro-cuban music at the CNSEA in Havana, Cuba before finishing his studies in afro-american music at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. Since then he has worked as a full time freelance musician, composer, arranger and producer. His vast knowledge in music ranges from classical and jazz to latin and electronic pop music.
Karl’s latest work for film is the feature Pleasure, by Ninja Thyberg, which was in the official selection of the Cannes Film Festival 2020 and later premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2021, where it received outstanding reviews with special mentions of the score.
Karl is a longtime member of Swedish salsa group Calle Real. They are considered as one of the best latin groups in Europe. Karl is also a member of Platina Jazz, a Swedish jazz group performing original arrangements of Japanese anime music. For several years Karl was also a touring bandmember of Swedish jazz-electronica duo Koop.
LUDVIG
Ludvig Klint (b. 1993) has collaborated with Frid & Frid since 2016.
With a background as an instrumentalist (drums and guitar) he contributes to the Frid & Frid team with a focus on rhythm, production and shaping sounds.
Ludvig studied music production, first at Linneus University in Växjö, graduating in 2016 and later at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm where he received his Master of Arts degree in Music in 2018.
Under the alias Klint Peacewood he creates electronic music with a heavy focus on interesting rhythms and beats.
Ludvig is the only one in the studio that can actually perform a standing backflip.