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Music /Projects
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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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