{"id":490,"date":"2025-07-18T22:25:52","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T20:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gustavnasmanolai.se\/biography\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T22:04:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T20:04:32","slug":"om","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.gustavnasmanolai.se\/en\/om\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gustav N\u00e4sman Olai<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Photo: Johan Nylin<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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I am a musician and musicologist, focusing on conveying the sound and history of medieval music.<\/p>

My musical journey began in Swedish traditional music, but over the years has deepened into medieval music and its instruments. I have a\u00a0<\/span>master's degree in musicology from Uppsala University<\/span> and today I work primarily with string instruments such as the gittern and citole, but also with bagpipes, shawms and singing.<\/span><\/p>

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My goal is to bring the world of medieval music to life through both research and practical music making \u2013 and to share that knowledge with others.<\/em><\/h5>

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As a freelance musician and educator, I am active both in Sweden and internationally, leading courses, concerts and workshops. In addition to my more regular music projects<\/a><\/strong>, I have contributed music and dance to SVT's (Swedish public service) Historien om Sverige<\/em>, played with Portuguese Na Rota do Peregrino<\/a>\u00a0<\/b> and am behind many of the sounds for Teenage Engineering's flagship EP-1320 medieval<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>

I am also involved in The Swedish Early Music Society<\/a><\/strong> and a member of the editorial board of the journal Tidig Musik<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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A selection of past engagements and collaborations:<\/strong><\/h5>

Paradox Interactive<\/a><\/strong><\/p>

Supercell<\/a><\/strong><\/p>

Blizzard<\/a><\/strong><\/p>

Kompani Bastard<\/a><\/strong><\/p>

Trollh\u00e4ttans Tidig Musik-dagar<\/a><\/strong><\/p>

NoMeMus<\/a><\/strong><\/p>

Olavsfestdagene i Trondheim<\/a><\/strong><\/p>

Medeltidsveckan p\u00e5 Gotland<\/a><\/strong><\/p>

Hallands Kulturhistoriska Museum<\/a><\/strong><\/p>

Torek\u00e4llberget<\/a><\/strong><\/p>

Scenkonstmuseet<\/a><\/strong><\/p>

SVT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>

Fackf\u00f6rbundet Kommunal<\/a><\/strong><\/p>

The Church of Sweden<\/strong> in, among others, Visby<\/strong><\/a>, Botkyrka<\/a>, Aspn\u00e4s<\/a> <\/strong> and Br\u00e4nnkyrka<\/a>. <\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Om Gustav N\u00e4sman Olai Musiker och musikvetare Foto: Johan Nylin Jag \u00a0\u00e4r musiker och musikvetare, med fokus p\u00e5 att f\u00f6rmedla den medeltida musikens klang och historia. Min musikaliska resa b\u00f6rjade i den svenska folkmusiken, men har med \u00e5ren f\u00f6rdjupats i medeltida musik och dess instrument. Jag har en\u00a0masterexamen i musikvetenskap fr\u00e5n Uppsala universitet\u00a0och arbetar idag […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"page-builder","ast-site-content-layout":"full-width-container","site-content-style":"unboxed","site-sidebar-style":"unboxed","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"disabled","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"enabled","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-490","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gustavnasmanolai.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gustavnasmanolai.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gustavnasmanolai.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gustavnasmanolai.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gustavnasmanolai.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":64,"href":"https:\/\/www.gustavnasmanolai.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1560,"href":"https:\/\/www.gustavnasmanolai.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/490\/revisions\/1560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gustavnasmanolai.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}