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Oljud Stockholm/Stockholm Noise
Oljud Stockholm / Stockholm Noise was an exhibition at the Museum Of Music in Stockholm as a part of the Stockholm Culture Festival 2009, August 16-23. Håkan Lidbo and the ethnologist Elin Franzén asked five artist to make remixes of the most sounds that people in Stockholm find most annoying.
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Music For Alien Civilizations
June 4, 2008, a radiosignal was broadcasted towards Cassiopeia. From Esrange, Swedish Space Corporations sattelite station outside Kiruna. The signal was music for alien civilizations. a message from Earth saying that we are friendly and want contact. Music by 12 Swedish artists supervised by Håkan Lidbo.
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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. Thsi album is also a memorial to by-gone radio days.
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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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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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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.
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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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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 clothes design group. A 60 min. dance performance, 60 acts of one minute each, dancers following the strict mathematic of the music.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Uppsala Analog Synthesizer Symphonic Orchestra
One of the unique projects at Voltfestivalen is the Uppsala Analog Synthesizer Symphonic Orchestra. World’s largest orchestra with only analog synths older than 1983. The conductor and maestro of the orchestra is Erik Möller. Håkan Lidbo was one of the initiators of the project.
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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.
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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.
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You don’t like it?
This is a collaboration project between Håkan Lidbo, Shitkatapult label-mate Magum 38 and legendary Swedish cartoonist Lars Ljunesson. The project consist of an EP, a comic book, an online pinball game and some tasty merchendising things, t-shirts and stuff.
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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.
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