Mai 9, 2008
I Like What You've Done With The Place
Since the last blog things have ticked along nicely but I've been unsure about what to blog about. I've stayed at home and we've been hosting a number of "cultural events", as we tend to do. Here are some pictures, each one enlargeable by clicking. This first pic shows the exhibition of Clas Hansen alongside the banner for a live radio broadcast that Radio Nova did from our bar on 10 April.
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April 25, 2008
Sceneity
Memories, music, words, ambiguity and mathematics will all feature in this blog entry. It is the third - and will surely be the last - time I write about the band Hanny. The first time I wrote about how I liked their first album. The second time I was actually in the band (a period that lasted for about six months) and I wrote about that experience. This time I'm writing about the new album, Sceneity, which I played on. I attended the album launch at the Henie Onstad Art Centre on 20 April and it was the first time I'd seen the band play since my departure...
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April 13, 2008
North London
A sad London scene: an alcoholic takes his only companion, a Christmas Tree he calls "Rover", out for a walk.
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Mars 30, 2008
Vorspiel og Nachspiel
The time has come for me to introduce you to a couple of very important concepts in Norwegian culture. Vorspiel and Nachspiel. These are in fact German words - I don't know why - but they describe the first and third phases of a night out in Norway. Vorspiel means the "before party" and nachspiel means the "after party". In between, you go out and buy expensive beer in a bar, concert venue or club. Perhaps that's the origin of these essential parties: they reduce the price of going out in the most expensive land on Earth.
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Mars 15, 2008
Mu: Acoustic Laptops, Charles Hayward and Ergocracy
Bored, bored, bored of people making electronic music "on their laptops"? Then welcome to the iFolk, the new generation of acoustic laptops.
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Mars 5, 2008
South... to Berlin
I was in Berlin this week. Yes, this blog has once again crept away from Scandinavia to have a look at the outside world. And I chose to visit a post-apocalyptic wasteland, as you can see from the above picture.
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Mars 1, 2008
Supporting American Music Club
On Friday 29 February my band Dacianos supported American Music Club at the venue called John Dee (yeah it's really called that) in Oslo. Here is a treasure of memories of the event.
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Februar 24, 2008
By;alarm
Here you can see Origami Arktika smashing up Sound of Mu.
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Februar 10, 2008
Photos of photos. Hmm. I shouldn't do that, should I?
Another sneak peak into the gallery that is Sound of Mu. This week we have an artist exhibiting from Berlin. The photographs are by Tina Schimansky and appear on one wall of the bar in her hand-made frames.
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Februar 3, 2008
Birds
I've been neglecting the "Norwegian art" category of this blog. Plus, I don't think I have ever shown you any of the exhibitions at our gallery at Sound of Mu, and we've had about two a month for over two years. So, I promise from now on to give you a slice of contemporary Norwegian art. This is the current exhibition, by Hanna A. Høiness, casually photographed by me. Amateur photographs of professional art: it could be a new movement.