PerMagnus Lindborg 林博培, PhD, is a researcher in technology-driven music composition, sound art, and soundscape perception. He is the author of more than 160 outputs: scholarly publications, compositions, and media artworks.
He is a Fellow with Arctic Circle (2023), SCM SoundLab (2020–), and TBA21 The Current (2016), and Principal Investigator for Multi-Modal Hong Kong (GRF 2023–25). Peer-reviewed outputs include journals such as Applied Acoustics, Applied Sciences, Frontiers, IRCAM-Delatour, Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, Leonardo, Organised Sound, Routledge, PLoS One, Springer-LNCS, Sustainability, Vernon Press, and proceedings from ArtTech, DAFx, EUSIPCO, EKSIG, Euronoise, Forum Acusticum, ICAD, ICMC, ICMPC, ISEA, NIME, Inter-Noise, Siggraph Asia, SMC.
Lindborg’s multimedia artwork was awarded at Cannes Short Film Festival and ISA Awards (2020), and music compositions awarded the First prize at Stavanger Symphony Orchestra Prize (Norway 2002) and Audience prize at Forum International (Montreal 1997). His music and media works appear worldwide, e.g. Asian Composers League (New Zealand 2022), ArtScience Museum (Singapore 2021), Osage (Hong Kong 2021), CubeFest (Virginia 2019), Berlin PianoPercussion (2018), Xuhui Museum (Shanghai 2017); Tonspur (Vienna 2016); National Gallery (Singapore 2015); Onassis Centre (Athens 2014); Moderna Museet (Stockholm 2008); Centre Pompidou (Paris 2003).
Promoting “data art for climate action”, he initiated and directed cross‑disciplinary events such as the DACA Conference (2022) and Soundislands Festivals (2013, -15, -17). He serves as a board member of the International Computer Music Association, currently as Vice-President for Asia-Oceania (2021–) and is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Electroacoustic Music Studies Network (EMS).
After completing studies in piano and composition (BMus Oslo Academy of Music), PerMagnus worked as an independent artist for nine years while pursuing music computing (IRCAM Paris 1999) and contemporary musicology (MPhil/DEA Paris 2003). In 2015, he defended his PhD dissertation Sound Perception and Design in Multimodal Environments (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm). After working in higher education for over twenty years (France, Singapore, Korea, Hong Kong), PerMagnus will take up a position as Research Associate at Gerald Chua Neuroscience Institute, The Chinese University of Hong Kong in September 2026.
My perception research is anchored in artistic work as a composer and designer of interactive sound installations and computer music. I am interested in cross-modal correspondences and how individual differences such as personality traits influence perceptual, cognitive and psychophysiological responses to sound. My long-term aim is to enrich the science-art bond by applying empirical results in the design of artwork as well as extracting analytic data from sensory experiences.
Joining the HK Auditory Neuroscience Lab i September 2026, I currently focus on multisensory integration, with projects on vocabulary acquisition through audio-visual association, and on ASMR genre classification through perceptual ratings and audio-visual features.