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Electrobusking
After hundreds of years of street buskers; Irish folk fiddlers, Peruan pan-fluters and russian accordionists, Voltfestivalen presented busking in a new and modern way. Kymatica, LM393, Sloppy Science and The Bird Who Fell To Earth took electronica to the streets.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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 – 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.
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.
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 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 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.
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 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.
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
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.
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 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.
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.
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 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.
Hzx5
Vidiots did this magnificent installation at Voltfestivalen 2009. 5 screens with manipulated faces, disturbingly morphing in synch with the music made by Håkan Lidbo. Some sort of static, electric sound, playing from 10 speakers. Hzx5 is a shameless celecration to electricity.
The Piano Showroom Session
In May 26 2007, 9 o’clock in the morning, Mathtiiaas Rosén and Håkan Lidbo met at the Steinway Piano Showroom in Stockholm. The music was totally improvised and in a natural way it ended up as 8 sessions of about 10 minutes each. The Piano Showroom Session is a musical meeting, a conversation in music.
The Great Adventure – Short Movie
The Great Adventures Of Princess Galaxia and Capitan Jean Magoo – A short film made by Juan Fernando Maguid to the music by Håkan Lidbo. An animated space adventure. To be continued.