I know that your duo consists of a guy and a girl. Could you tell a bit about yourself? Like age, education, hobbies, jobs...

Lirim Cajani 26 years of age unemployed, basic drama training. Hobbies: to make and listen to music, to hang out in bars.

Johanna Rosenqvist 28 years of age works at the Museum of Art in Norrkoping. Master in Art History and History of Science and Ideas at Lund University. Hobbies: horses, to make and listen to music, create images of all kinds.

How has it happen that girl decided to play shit like power electronics?� In my country girls don't even know about this type of music.

In Sweden not a great deal of girls listen to-or less make noise/power electronics (there are a few exceptions how ever like there`s a girl in the band P2. (Releasing Eskimo) Johanna was basically just interested in harsch electronic music as a contrast maybe to the quiet country life where she was brought up. Since she moved to Lund she has introduced a lot of people to the music of BDN, Deutsch Nepal but also Genocide Organ as an concert organizer at a club in Lund. To play industrial music especially live also is a good way to get rid of agressions you-and certainly girls are NOT allowed to show in public otherwise.

How has it happened that you both met together and decided to form the band?

Lirim has played in several bands before and parallel to Institut. At first, in 90/91, the project went under his name LIRIM. In 1994 he changed the name to Institut and different live collaborations played at different locations in Malmoe. Since 1995 Johanna has been a permanent member of the band.

Could you tell me about your discography?

Institut have released their selves (sometimes under the name of Monte Carlo Tapes) in very limited editions.

MC1. LIRIM "Enver" 30 min. 1991
MC2. LIRIM "Straight-Megaphone-Ammunition" 80 min.1993-94
MC3. INSTITUT " From Frame To Engine" 80 min. 1996
MC4. INSTITUT /st 90 min. 1996
MC5. INSTITUT "Five Levels of Intense Arcade Action" 60min.-99
CD-comp .EoC

Comming soon from Cold Meat Industry:

cd INSTITUT "Great day to get even"

Why did you decided to play power electronics?

Institut don't really consider their music to be just power electronics. We are also inspired of disco+ concrete and monuments and large apartment complexes that the modernist era brought to day light.(Lirim is brought up in that kind of enviroment) What we like to say here is that we like art to be greater than our selves. Music wise inspiration comes from rythmical industrial soundscapes for example: Esplendor Geometrico,Klinik and Kraftwerk to name a few. You may say that Institut want to sway from cleanliness and order to the dirtiest noises a human ear can percieve. Instituts making of music is a search for this and a need to play it out loud comes natural! Institut want to explore the field of mostly analogue-synthesized sounds, to distort and to manipulate and eventually give it the shape of a tune. Rythm is an imported part of our music that allow us to manipulate firstly the rythm itself and on the other hand our audience.

CMI have chosen two of your songs. Do you know why? And do you think that these songs are good example of your music?

We actually sent in only 3 songs to the CMI compilation. We think Roger Karmanik made excellent choises. They are good examples of our music except that live we sound a lot more agressive. And on coming fullength album (on CMI) we have added some lyrics.

Someone said that The Esthetics... CD has maid all of you known over one night. Do you agree that this compilation has brought much attention to Swedish pe/ noise scene, and your band as an example, or nothing really changed?

As a band Institut has been most known as a good live act and has played on a large Industrial music festival at M/S Stubnitz last year (1998). No more opportunities has really come up as a result of the EoC. On the otherhand the compilation has been wide spread which has led to a lot of feedback and new contacts around the world.

I was told that some bands were born just for this compilation and they haven't existed before. Is that true?

We don't know. Some bands may have just got their act together in time for the compilation.

The tracks you've enjoyed most on EOC?

We like VEHM the most.

Every musician from pe/ noise scene tells me that his band has no political agenda. It looks like you (I mean industrial musicians) want to be extremists but you are afraid to be labeled as political extremists. Don't you think it's strange - no politics, but sexual perversions, serial killers and other "fantasy" crap? You try to avoid reality?

We believe that everything you do is politics. We think that even the most "unpolitical" band embraces the idea of total freedom for fantasies to be realized in a completly anarchistic way wich make even the tendency towards sexual perversions political.We think that they express unexplicable things in music as a test or theater mostly. Institut belives in Teamwork-Planning-Progress. Institut belives in the continuation of the Industrial/Futurist revolution. That?s the harsch reality.

What do you think about noise/ power electronics scene in Sweden? Do you have the scene or it's just a bunch of people who have no relations among them?

We think that it?s OK that it excist but we don?t have a scene as a virtual stage or a place to meet and exchange ideas.

Do you plan any new releases in future? Will you try to get a deal with some label?

Yes we hope to release a lot of new material preferably on CMI...

I've seen a review of Esthetics... release party. The guy said that your set was really good and violent. What do you think about the party and about your show? Do you play live often?

We thought it was quite a good party and for the show: We think that it was our best live act so far the action was really there and the support from the audience was great. We play live as often as there are opportunities for us to do so.

Institut is your hobby or you have a goal to achieve?

Institut is never ending fuel, Institut is a machine in perpetual motion.

�Contact addresses:

c/o Lirim Cajani
Skepparegatan 3
602 27 Norrkoping
Sweden

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