Backlogging...

Dear blog, long time no see! Just realize I have not been updating this blog for a year now which has it's reasons. Nevertheless there is some things I want to share about what I have been doing the last year so therefore I now following will post some things Ive been up to since last time.

Cheers, Björn

Things coming up in august...

Ok... been so long time since i blogged now - so i take the opportunity to write about some different things coming up. Both ongoing projects and some starting soon in august. Here we go...

Avatar Orchestra Metaverse is a project I have been involved in since februar 2007. This is an virtual orchestra in Second Life that have about 15 members all over world. We play different new music that are composed by the members. We only use virtual instruments and in-world sounds but we often appears in mixed reality situations/events. I have been writing three pieces for the orchestra, Rue Blanche, FRAGULA and Vicky's Mosquitos 13 (which was the virtual adaption of Harold Schellinx project Vickys Mosquitos).

Since earlier works with Rinus van Alebeek in spring in Eskilstuna/Stockholm it has now happened that I am responsible for the virtual section of festival day 10th august 2007 of Das Kleine Field Recordings Festival in Berlin by Rinus van Alebeek. I will be in Berling during the festival days 10th and 11th aug. I will be playing on Stralau 68 on the 11th aug. See more on the the festival blogsite.

After the Berlin stay I will go down to south Germany to meet the Pomodoro Bolzano group... there i am along other things curating/producing the Plac.Art.X , an 12 hour placard/headphone festival in the gallery of Leeren Beutel in Regensburg. This is taking place on 18th august during the art.xxXtenxion weeks in august 2007.

... and last but not the least (and related to the above happenings) I am glad to tell that I am artist-in-residence during this summer 2007 at Pomodoro Bolzano the media art group in Regensburg, Bavaria, Germany. I am sure the stay there in august will
be awesome. Some of the above projects that we will work on has been long planned during all spring and some other projects not mentioned here will surely be expanded in unknown directions. I am sure I will have things to blog about later on all these things...

Take care!

Avatar Orchestra Metaverse

I am right now investing pretty much time and energy on the virtual music project called Avatar Orchestra Metaverse. Please read more on this at AOM Blog. I have done (even written scores) some pieces for this orchestra, among them the sinus tone series based piece called Rue Blanche.

.microsound pi project 2007 - ludolph & lambert

There is an Miulew track for the recently project over at .microsound
This is once again a pi project. You can listen/download my track along with the other contributions over at the podcast page
Ludolph and Lambert is my track entitled and the reason why is that these two figures was kinda important to our days understanding of the pi number. Here is my track description:
>ludolph_and_lambert.mp3 >some sinus tones related to the pi number were tweaked about 3.1415 times >and a master sound was produced. then about 3.1415 times this master sound >was processed further. / miulew [http://miulew.podomatic.com]

If you are into podcast receiving, please also check the other podcasts over at .microsound. Here you find the most of the .microsounds project from last years.

Vicky's Mosquitos #13

The 14th of march 2007 was the date of the thirteenth Vicky's Mosquitos. This was made from within the virtual world called Second Life and also at same time streamed and screened in "Real Life" at WAAG in Amsterdam. There is more to read and listen to elsewhere, but I suggest a first visit to Harold Schellinx soundblog.

If you just want to listen (or download) to how the performance sounded you can go to my podomatic post.

PlacardX in Helsinki - line up

17/Jan/2007
.18:00 (EET)	.squidroses. - .shoegazin 4-ever. - (+) - .post post proust progfolk.
.18:30 (EET)	.nosfe. - ..... - (+) - .improvisation.
.19:00 (EET)	.Rene Kita. - .Nietzsche recitation. - (+) - .Deconstructive reading of Nietzsche accompanied by acoustic guitar, forks scraping on metal and squeaky rubber rats.
.19:30 (EET)	.Lola Jane. - .Lola without Lubrijkaa. - (+) - .cute midi.
.20:00 (EET)	.snowy mountain. - .mini-musique. - (+) - .guitar, vocals, mini-synths.
.20:30 (EET)	.kuupuu. - .spooky boogie. - (+) - .loops, vocals, tapes.
.21:00 (EET)	.Harmoniüm. - .Slowpokes. - (+) - .Droning soundwaves.
.21:30 (EET)	.VerhaverbekeWiderberg. - .nosumo. - (+) - .[gitarr + laptoppi] x 2.
.22:00 (EET)	.O Samuli A. - .Bleeps and Styles v.1.0. - (+) - .Chipsound meets Peräkammarielectronica.
.22:30 (EET)	.ImproMasters. - .ImproMasters. - (+) - .Free Improvisation group with technology.
.23:00 (EET)	.ImproMasters. - (+)
.23:30 (EET)	.ImproMasters. - (+)
18/Jan/2007
.00:00 (EET)	.marko timlin. - .turtlegun. - (+) - .the sense of loosing the beauty of time.
.00:30 (EET)	.Hundre haubajas. - .free improvisation on keyboards.
.01:00 (EET)	...Kreshimir... - ...Electromotor 8-18V... - (+) - ...Its spinning and it used to be in hair trimmer...
.01:30 (EET)	.siBOLiUS. - .classical moisture. - (+) - .ham monde from school of meat cutting.
.02:00 (EET)	---
.02:30 (EET)	.Erik Minkkinen. - .perc. - (+) - .pings pangs and shouts.
.03:00 (EET)	.Miulew. - .Dust Hereby in Stereo, pt 2. - (+) - .remote live stream from sollefteå sweden.
.03:30 (EET)	---
.04:00 (EET)	.B.iAs. - .san miguel cnx. - (+) - .electronika stream from barcelone.
.04:30 (EET)	.in. - .out. - (+) - .early morning farming.
.05:00 (EET)	.Hans Kompis utan Kompis. - .morhan:. - (+) - .Don Nou.
.05:30 (EET)	---
.06:00 (EET)	---
.06:30 (EET)	---
.07:00 (EET)	---
.07:30 (EET)	---
.08:00 (EET)	---
.08:30 (EET)	---
.09:00 (EET)	.Kulkija. - .Rising with the Sun. - (+) - .NWOFNA -drones.
.09:30 (EET)	.kerttu. - .still balcony. - (+) - .immobile botanical voices and harmonies from a group of two and a half persons.

Dust Hereby in Stereo - pt 2

Later in the same night (actually happening on my birthday) there will be a part 2 of this set from Miulew. Now happening at the PlacardX-helsinki taking place at The Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland. This will be a 30 minute set. The Placards are usually not going on in the winters so I guess this will be a very special one.