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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

Mass Individuality

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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, 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.

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

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.

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 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.