InvisiBall
InvisiBall

InvisiBall is a new game concept for two persons. It’s a game played in a pitch black room, blindfolded or by blind people. It includes 3-dimensional sounds, infrared sensors, accelerometer control and music. InvisiBall will be presented in various contexts in 2012.

SynComposer
SynComposer

SynComposer in an ongoing collaboration between visual artist Dan Spegel and Håkan Lidbo. By playing the SynComposer game you also explore different ways of visualizing music. And at the same time you collectively create music and animated art.

Brevet
Brevet

“Brevet” is a collaboration between Jörgen Pettersson, one of the most respected saxophone players in contemporary music, and Håkan Lidbo. The dynamic, acoustic recordings of Jörgen’s saxophones filtered, edited and manipulated through Håkan’s electronics.

Yello.com
Yello.com

Swiss synth-legends Yello have made a new and exciting website. The production, mix and design of the website is a collaboration between Håkan Ullberg (design), Philip Clevberger (programming) and Håkan Lidbo (music and management).

Power to the people
Power to the people

The people that make the radio show Ström on Swedish Radio is making a film for Swedish Television. It’s about Sweden’s electronic music history. From the 50’s until present day. The film will be premiered on Swedish Television K-Special in late spring 2012.

HACK
HACK

HACK is an interactive, self-generating sound and video sculpture, a mountain made of old speakers, record players, cassettes, amps, turntables, VHS and TVs. It’s created, constructed and composed by Håkan Lidbo, Andreas Tilliander and Joel Dittrich.

Electrobusking
Electrobusking

After hundreds of years of street buskers; Irish folk fiddlers and Peruan pan-fluters, Voltfestivalen presentes busking in a new and modern way. Colouroid, Cornelia, Noisebud, Cynthia Stern, Kymatica, LM393, Sloppy Science and The Bird Who Fell To Earth take electronica to the streets.

The Remote Controlled Choir
The Remote Controlled Choir

At Voltfestivalen 2011, Uppsala’s Chamber Choir performed two influential songs from the history of electronic music. By Björk and New Order. Arranged by Mårten Josjö and initiated by Håkan Lidbo for Voltfestivalen.

3-step
3-step

3 players dance together—but also by themselves. Creating beats and motion graphics with their feet. Body movements are transformed into shapes and sounds. 3-step is created, designed and composed by Dan Spegel and Håkan Lidbo.

Visible Silence
Visible Silence

In the quiet environments of libraries, churches and museums fine sounds appear, sounds that we usually wouldn’t notice. But how does silence sound, and what would it look like if we could see it? And what if it was translated into music?

Quasimodo Jones
Quasimodo Jones

Quasimodo Jones is a guitarist, vocalist and song-writer from USA, collaborating with Håkan Lidbo in what came to be one of the earliest mixes between electro and trashy rock’n'roll. The album Robots & Rebels was released on Berlin’s Shitkatapult Records.

John Peel Session
John Peel Session

In june 8, 2004 Håkan Lidbo did a session for legendary radio presenter and alternative music oracle John Peel at BBC, radio 1. The music is an intense mash-up of the music released by Håkan Lidbo at that time.

Köksradion / The Kitchen Radio
Köksradion / The Kitchen Radio

Köksradion (The Kitchen Radio) is a new radio concept that explores how food, wine and music can be matched. They can strengthen each other or they can ruin the whole dinner. This is radio for all senses, not only for your ears, but also taste and smell.

Voltfestivalen June 11, 201.
Voltfestivalen June 11, 201.

Voltfestivalen 2011 offers electronic music spanning many different genres, from experimental projects, through smashing dubstep to pumping raw techno. Voltfestivalen 2011 is bigger and better than ever and focuses even more on visual art and VJs.

C Receptoribus
C Receptoribus

100 radio receivers play at full volume, spread out 1 meter apart. Different sounds from all of them. C Receptoribus was an installation at Voltfestivalen 2011. Radios provided by Swedish Radio Corporation, concept and performance by Håkan Lidbo and Ström/P2.

Birds Of Hedasen
Birds Of Hedasen

Birds Of Hedasen is a collaboration between electronica producer Motoko Ishii and Håkan Lidbo.Rhythms by Håkan Lidbo, amospheres, textures, vocals and mix by Motoko Ishii. An avant-garde story about nature and life expressed in 6 songs.

Stockholm City Honorary Prize
Stockholm City Honorary Prize

The annual Stockholm City’s Honorary prize go to people who are “important to the cultural life of Stockholm”. In 2011 Håkan Lidbo got the prize for the Sergel Symphony, performed as the opening ceremony for the Stockholm Culture Festival 2010.

Chinese whispers with music
Chinese whispers with music

The electronica radio show Ström and Håkan Lidbo has launched a new project. 14 Swedish producers will play the game Chinese Whispers but with music. July 8 the full track, edited together as one massive, more than one hour long track, will be presented.

Lost Bots
Lost Bots

As a part of the Voltfestival, 25 specially manufactured robots invaded central Stockholm and central Uppsala May 7 2011. The robots can do nothing but go forward. The goodness of people makes them fulfill their task, not any advanced CPU, GPS or AI.

8 Hours – A campaign for animals rights
8 Hours - A campaign for animals rights

Long animal transports are not only cruel but also unnecessary. The campaign “8-hours” has made a film to support the animal’s rights. To make it illegal to transport animals longer than 8 hours. The music was made by Håkan Lidbo.

Aviiva – A new game concept
Aviiva - A new game concept

Aviiva is a new game concept built on abstract graphics, sounds and music. It’s a strategic game where the ability to remember melodies is an advantage. The game will be presented in fall 2011 but until then the rules of the game is our secret.

Word Record Attempt
Word Record Attempt

Hakan Lidbo aims at breaking a World Record: most composers on one single track. Anyone with some skills with a music program can download the two samples and create 4 bars of music. The final song might turn out as the greatest electronic dance song of all times. Or maybe not. Deadline is june 27, 2011, then we will see.

Classical Masterpieces Remixed
Classical Masterpieces Remixed

Stockholm’s daily paper DN invited a wide spectra of Swedish DJs, producers of electronica and composers of contemporary music to remix a favourite piece of clasical music. The project was initiated by the music critic Martin Nyström and the CD was compiled and managed by Håkan Lidbo.

Kammartronika
Kammartronika

Kammartronika is a collaboration between Ström at Swedish Radio and Berwaldhallen, the home of the Swedish Radio Symphonic Orchestra. A concert evening where chamber music meets electronica. Ida Bach Jensen, Martin Herterich, Ström i P2, Chambertronica.

Floating City
Floating City

Hakan Lidbo did the music for Floating City, filmed, edited and designed by Viktor Blanke. The film had it’s first screening at Sydney Design In Motion 2010. Floating City is about urban structures, patterns and rhythms. With film and music in perfectly synchronization.

Trancelaysions
Trancelaysions

Trancelaysions is an exhibition at the House Of Culture in Stockholm Aug-Oct 2010. It’s also a web site where any text in any language can be processed by a chain of machine translators. Missunderstandings and errors occur and what comes back is both strange and inspiring.

The Sergel Symphony
The Sergel Symphony

August 10, Stockholm Culture Festival and the opening of Kulturhuset’s new library had a grand opening. The sounds and noises of Stockholm joined forces with a chamber music orchestra. Music composed and conducted by Hakan Lidbo.

Zuzuvela – the revenge of the vuvuzela
Zuzuvela - the revenge of the vuvuzela

Swedish radio have commissioned a short musical piece for the vuvuzela, the much debated plastic horn known from the football World Championship in South Africa. The music, called “Zuzuvela” had it’s premiere around the final of the World Cup.

grf_rmibht9 – DVD album
grf_rmibht9 - DVD album

Håkan Lidbo’s album grf_rmibht9 comes from a project at Berghs School Of Communication in Stockholm. The students were given one track each to make a visual interpretation. The theme is synch – Significant audio elements in the music should have a visual counterpart.

Voltfestivalen 2010
Voltfestivalen 2010

Voltfestivalen, the new electronic music festival. 2010 lineup was even stronger than the first year. Some of the most interesting international and Swedish artists. Art, visuals and installations. Welcome back to Voltfestivalen 2011, june 11!

Stockholm Noise Live
Stockholm Noise Live

April 24 2010, the citizens of Stockholm were asked to record the sound of Stockholm and come to Kulturhuset where 4 electronica producers took the recordings and remixed it into music. The event was a part of the annual Culture Night of Stockholm.

Xoiiox – The new innovative iPad music game
Xoiiox - The new innovative iPad music game

Xoiiox is a game and a musical instrument for two persons. Xoiiox is designed, constructed and composed by Håkan Lidbo and developed by Kondensator. Xoiiox is for iPad only. To be a successful player, just as in life – play the game and feel the music.

The Music From The Future
The Music From The Future

Every year the radio show Ström give an assignement to swedish producers of electronic music. This year it’s more ambitious than ever, and by far the most complicated. They get one future scenario each and their job is to create music the way it will sound – in the future.

P2Ström iPhone app
P2Ström iPhone app

8 The P2Ström iPhone application, a creative six-channel mix with some powerful effects and cool features. You can also click the “band” button and select which instrument you want to play – and if you hook up with some fiends with iPhones, you can start an electronic pop-band.

Oljud Stockholm/Stockholm Noise
Oljud Stockholm/Stockholm Noise

Oljud Stockholm / Stockholm Noise was an exhibition at the Museum Of Music in Stockholm at the Stockholm Culture Festival 2009. Håkan Lidbo and the ethnologist Elin Franzén asked five artist to make remixes of the most disturbing sounds in Stockholm.

Music For Alien Civilizations
Music For Alien Civilizations

June 4, 2008, a radiosignal was broadcasted towards Cassiopeia. From Esrange, Swedish Space Corporations sattelite station in northern Sweden. The signal was music for alien civilizations, a message from Earth saying that we are friendly – and we want to make contact.

Lidbo Van Beethoven
Lidbo Van Beethoven

8 As a part of promoting a series of 25 recordings of classical music, the biggest Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter have asked artists to make remixes of these recordings. Håkan Lidbo picked one of his favourites from Beethoven. The great 5th.

Musiken Vi Hatar/The Music We Hate
Musiken Vi Hatar/The Music We Hate

Håkan Lidbo’s radio show Ström asked 12 well-known Swedish artists to pick a song they dislike, or even hate, and produce it their own way. To confront their deamons and to get in touch with the origin of their musical creativity. Like musical regression therapy.

Pausfågeln Remixad / The Pausebird Remixed
Pausfågeln Remixad / The Pausebird Remixed

This album is much more than simply a compilation of cool digital birdcalls. For 42 years Swedish National Radio broadcasted “The Pausbird Of The Week”. The geekiest radio show ever. This album is also a memorial celebrating by-gone radio days.

60.01.60
60.01.60

60.01.60 – the techno equivalent to Wagners “Ring of the Niebelungen”… sort of. A collaboration with choreographer, film maker, graphic designer and designer. A 60 min. dance performance, 60 acts of one minute each, following strict mathematical patterns.

Ny Musik För Landssorg /Music For National Grief
Ny Musik För Landssorg /Music For National Grief

When Sweden is struck by a national dissaster. Like the murder of Prime Minister Olof Palme, or when the ship Estonia went down and hundreds of Swedes drowned, the radio play very mellow and careful music, old and traditional – so New Music For National Grief presents new, electronic music composed for this purpose.

Skiftet / The Shift
Skiftet / The Shift

8 electronica artists gathered in a studio in Stockholm to create music. The musical labour was only interrupted for lunch and coffee breaks. 8 hours of improvised electronica was recorded and each of the artists received one hour of music that they mixed and edited to one of the eight tracks.

Mass Individuality
Mass Individuality

The Swedish National Anhem Remix Contest
The Swedish National Anhem Remix Contest

As a part of the Voltfestivalen June 6, 2009, Swedish artists were asked to remix the Swedish National Anthem. It was written a long time ago and not many people know the lyrics to the second verse. We thought it should be modernized to reflect the new, multu-cultural, technological and open-minded Sweden.

Data 80
Data 80

Data 80 is Håkan Lidbo’s collaboration project with the self-aware neurological network Data 80. By analyzing every pop song available online, comparing with sales charts and number of hits on the net, the perfect pop songs were composed. Håkan Lidbo contributed with up-to-date electronic arrangements.

Industrial Cool
Industrial Cool

Industrial Cool is a project at The University of Lund where ethonologist Robert Willim explores the aestheitc aspects of industrialism and how it has changed over the years. In this project Håkan Lidbo collects musicians to interprete the sound of a Sugar Raffinery. Industrial music for laptops.

Chambertronica
Chambertronica

Chambertronica is a collaboration project between three classically trained, visionary instrumentalists and three composers that use elctronics as their main instrument and tool of composition. Tradition and technology. Chambertronica is music never heard before.

C3 loops
C3 loops

Håkan Lidbo is involved in the developement of a new software music and video instrument. The inventor is Rikard Lindell, former electronica producer. A beta version of the program was tested at the NMM festival 2008. Håkan teamed up with fellow electronica producer Sophie Rimheden and VJ Måns Nyman.

Mitote
Mitote

Mitote was ordered in 2003 by National Swedish Radio P2 for the 40th anniversary of EMS, the electronic music studio in Stockholm. Mitote is a piece of Electro-Acustic Music blending the aesthetic from EAM and noise art with electronica and the repetitive beats from the today’s club music.

Håkan Lidbo’s music for advertising
Håkan Lidbo's music for advertising

Håkan Lidbo has made music for internationally awarded campaigns. He did music for Absolut Vodka’s Ruby Red interactive rock musical. He also wrote one of Sweden’s biggest hits from commercials; the JC campaign that was awarded as the best advertising music in 2001.

Volt Guitar Trio
Volt Guitar Trio

Composer Mårten Josjö arrange electronic muisc in unexpected acoustic arrangements. At Voltfestivalen 2010 the Volt Guitar Trio performed some of the most important songs from the vaults of electronica. How does this sound on guitar? Find out here.

Dreamhack 2009
Dreamhack 2009

The World’s biggest gaming event Dreamhack was broadcasted live as a sports event by Swedish National Television. The games World Of Warcraft, Counter Strike, Streetfighter and Quake was broadcasted like a sports event, hosted by Miguel Bonett, World Champion in Counter Strike. All music was made by Håkan Lidbo.

Omnibus play Swedish techno classics.
Omnibus play Swedish techno classics.

Omnibus, Sweden’s finest Wind Chamber Orchestra, performed at the Voltfestivalen, June 6, 2009. They performed three classic Swedish techno 12″s in a stunningly beautiful arrangement by Mårten Josjö. The project was produced by Håkan Lidbo and the result was something very new and exciting.

Container Publishing
Container Publishing

Container Publishing is the only Swedish publishing company focusing only on innovative electronic music. The company is owned by Håkan Lidbo and Anders Mörén and represent the very best Swedish artists within modern electronic music,

Bobby Trafalgar
Bobby Trafalgar

Bobby Trafalgar did an infinitive number of recordings and soundtracks to some of the strangest films ever made. Unfortunately he hasn’t composed anything in the last 30 years. Some of his cult songs have recently been re-discovered, edited and re-mastered by Håkan Lidbo.

Jävla Kritiker / Fuckin’ Critics
Jävla Kritiker / Fuckin' Critics

Fuckin’ Critics is like any other records – but completely reversed. First 10 of Sweden’s most acclaimed music journalists wrote one review each – of a song that didn’t yet exist. The review were given to 10 established Swedish artists to interprate and make the music according to the review.

Kvarteret Skatan
Kvarteret Skatan

Kvarteret Skatan is one of the most establish comedy series on Swedish Television. In 2006-2007 and 2009-2010 the characters of Skatan entered the stage at the Rival Theater in Stockholm. this time they were not just funny. They also sang. The music was made by Håkan Lidbo.

The Three Gifts
The Three Gifts

In 2000, The Peter Schaufuss Ballet in Denmark, asked Håkan Lidbo to make music to the ballet The Three Gifts. An updated and modern version of Kermessen In Brugges.

Svensk Inredningsmusik / Swedish Interior Music
Svensk Inredningsmusik / Swedish Interior Music

Svensk Inredningsmusik / Swedish Interior Music starts with nothing. No sounds and totally empty electronic instruments. Their method is making sound and music out of silence. When they perform, the silent audience is the only sound source. No matter how quiet they are.

Pay TV
Pay TV

Pay-tv consists of the three glamour girls Chanelle, Claudia and Neena. The dynamic trio met at a party att the Rectum Club in Munich and then stayed close friends. When they were offered to perform Trendy Discoteque it all became obvoius for them, they suddenly had a purpose in life, they were ment to be superstars.