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Electric Mashup
As a part of the Eurovision Song Contest, Håkan Lidbo performed a mashup of four Swedish hit songs, all named “Electric”. The music was arranged like some sort of archeology as these song have been strongly infuenced of each other. Sometimes even shamelessly copied.
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CCC Pad
CCC Pad is a creative music interface where sounds and video can be played in a new and intuitive way. January 11th, Håkan Lidbo performed an electric mashup at the Swedish semifinal of the Eurovision Song Contest with a prototype of the CCC Pad.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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