February 3 2010
Krishve takes part in a diffusion concert this Thursday. That is tomorrow.
What's diffusion I hear you ask? That's pre-recorded music played back using a multi speaker system, in this case 23 speakers. This idea came about as an consequence of the emergence of musique concrete, and discussions about how to present this new kind of music in a live setting. The term acousmatic sound was created. In short it refers to the experience of hearing sounds without being able to see the origininal sound sources. Read Wikipedias article about acousmatic sound.
Listen to sounds whizzing about from loudspeaker to loudspeaker:
Place: The Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus, in the Synphonic Hall
Time: 8 pm
Price: FREE!
Read more about the concert (in Danish).
>> January 9 2010 <<
Krishve wishes you all a Happy New Year!
A few news bytes:
Ritual V-VII: The next part in the Ritual Series is almost ready for release.
This second installment includes Ritual V, played to a live audience at The Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus. The graphics are not quite finished yet, but expect Ritual V-VII to be available for download very soon. It will be available at the same online music shops as Ritual I-IV. That is iTunes, TDC Musik, shop2download (TP-Musik), all in all about 160 other online music shops internationally.
30 Seconds of Being Together (working title): A new project I'm working on at the moment.
Still a bit secret. Actually very secret! Otherwise it will not work. But I can divulge a few details... These elements are important parts of the puzzle: Strict time limits, the effect of several pairings of minds, random occurrences and one of the works of Sir Thomas Browne. Oh, what a give away! More on this later…
These are a few of the upcoming events in the world of Krishve in 2010. 2010 vs. 2001? I always preferred 2001…
>> October 10 2009 <<
Ritual I-IV available online
The first four Ritual tracks are available via DiGiDi. That includes the iTunes Store, TDC Musik and roughly 160 other online music shops internationally. If you feel frisky, go to the music page and get your own copy of Ritual I-IV.
>> June 3 2009 <<
Premiere of Caution, June 9th: Music by Kati Linek & Krishve
Caution plays at Archauz (Århus, Denmark) on June the 9th and 10th. The production is shown again at Skanderborg Kulturhus in September.
The performance is divided into two parts. Kati Linek and Krishve collaborated on composing music for the part choreographed by Louise Friis. The music was created using a minimum of audio material.
I mainly used recordings of cello, toy piano and radio static as the basic building blocks, mutating these well known sounds into something that the listener might not be able to identify, at least not all of the time. The point of this being to create a kind of ambivalence about what exactly it is that the audience is listening to. This underlines the themes of Caution. What is “real" and what is “unreal"? Who appears to be sane and who does not and why?
About the peformance
"Caution is the third performance by Archauz U-Kompagniet within just 1½ year.
A performance of tense energy, the young dancers desire of movement and a lot of physical challenge. Caution is a double-bill by dancer, choreographer and artistic director, Louise Friis (DK) and dancer and choreographer Lodie Kardouss (FR)." (From Archauz' website).
Read more about Caution and buy tickets at www.archauz.dk
Visit Kati Linek's Myspace profile.
>> April 26 2009 <<
Photos from the performance at Godsbanen 24th of April
Click on the pictures to view larger images:
Photos by Ole Frost Berry
The show went really well. Ritual VI turned out to be a bit more action packed than the previous parts of the series. Unfortunately I didn't get to record the show because of a slight mishap with my recorder. I might decide to create an alternative Ritual VI event, so that I can maintain the chronology for a later release of the Rituals. Some people might call that cheating, but I don't care as long as it works... ;)
>> April 23 2009 <<
Krishve – Live at Godsbanen in Århus – April 24
Krishve is playing at the opening of FLirkus Stationarium, an intiative by Frontløberne.
The project runs until May 17th. Tomorrow is the first day of the event and it's celebrated with a one day festival of weird and wonderful music. Admission is FREE and the music starts off at 15.00 and lasts until 23.00.
Krishve takes the stage at 22.00 to perform part VI of the Ritual series.
Find the entire line-up and more about FLirkus Stationarium at Frontløbernes website.
>> April 8 2009 <<
The Krishve 7 inch is now for sale at the excellent Smallfish Records in London.
You can order it at a very reasonable price via this link:
>> February 27 2009 <<
Krishve is DJ'ing at the opening of the new Works Unltd. shop this afternoon.
>> February 26 2009 <<
Here's a few pics from DIEM Elektro last night:
>> February 24 2009 <<
RITUAL V: LIVE
Wednesday the 25th Krishve is playing "DIEM Elektro" at the Royal Academy of Music in Århus. The show starts at 8 pm, and it's in Rytmisk Sal. Free admission. The rest of the lineup: Kati Linek, Noianiz & Benjamin Lesak.
Krishve will be playing part V (= five, right?) of the Ritual series. In other words, it's going to be a debut of the piece. What's more, the show is going to be recorded for some kind of, as yet undefined, future Ritual project.
>> February 18 2009 <<
Krishve is DJ'ing tonight at SPlab as part of "Bang og/eller 3".
Read more about this: Bang og/eller
>> December 1 2008 <<
RELEASE PARTY & THEN SOME
Come and hang out in the underworld of Slagtehal 3!
To celebrate the fact that I have made a slice of vinyl I invite you to enjoy a cool glass of Crémant d'Alsace. Ahhh...
The bubbly is free for as long as stocks last. Show up early if you want to be sure to get some.
If you are not into bubbles(?!?) you can buy cheap beer and cheap wine in the cheap bar. Cheap.
I'll be selling the single + a few goodies at a fun price so remember to bring cash.
Any remaining money can be spent in the bar. Did I mention it is cheap?
At some point during the evening I'll be playing a brandspanking new track. PORNOBÖDDEL. And it's not even Christmas yet...
TIME: December Tuesday 9th, 8 PM
PLACE: Slagtehal 3, Mejlgade 50, 8000 Århus C
>> November 15 2008 <<
Gæoudjiparl's final blow
Follow the link and listen to what the man has to say:
Manual for Radical Computer Music
War is over if you want it …
>> September 25 2008 <<
Krishve 7" vinyl
Nice ... 200 pieces of 7 inch vinyl. Tracklisting:
A: Coil of Wire
B: Universum Mittelwelle
Mastered by Lupo at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin.
Get it while it's hot.
>> July 22 2008 <<
Problèmes de Communication to tour Canada
Next week Krishve goes on a small tour of Canada as part of the band Problèmes de Communication. We perform a live soundtrack to the silent movie "Häxan – Witchcraft Through The Ages" (1922) by Danish director Benjamin Christensen.
>> June 27 2008 <<
Mort Aux Vaches Ekstra Extra – Krishve edition
Click the picture to view the book.
Here at last. My contribution to Gaeoudjiparl Van Den Dobbelsteen's Mort Aux Vaches Ekstra Extra.
Take a look at it here.
If you want to get involved you can read more at GvdD's warsite or get your own book via Smallfish Rcords in the UK. Join in the fun.
>> May 22 2008 <<
Berlin Biennial – Mort Aux Vaches Ekstra Extra
Well, it was quite an interesting time in Berlin. We did the Berlin Biennial thing, as you can see on this picture of the venerable Gaeoudjiparl Van Den Dobbelsteen presenting one of the new Mort Aux Vaches Ekstra Extra works to the astounded public. People were happy and much fun was had by all.
Click the picture to see a larger one.
More on this later, as I'll be uploading the entire Krishve Mort Aux Vaches Ekstra Extra on this site only!
This is an exclusive and unique work – a collaboration between Krishve, Goodiepal and unnamed beings (some of them human) from around the world.
Only 1 (that is one/uno/une/eins/en) copy exists in the known Universe! I promise this is going to be interesting. Below you see Krishve at DIEM presenting the work to Goodiepal and the public, after returning from Berlin.
Click the pictures to see larger ones.
We also had time to meet up with the very nice and accomplished Lupo at Dubplates & Mastering, to oversee the mastering and cutting of a forthcoming 12" by Lights People. Check these people out.
The mix was done live on the spot by Goodiepal, a woman from the Faroe Islands (I can't remember her name) and Guido of Gamers in Exile. This was used as master.
We visited Geert-Jan Hobjin at his newly built house to have a talk about the history of Staaplaat. He showed us a lot of the extremely beautiful cover art he's produced over the years. You have probably seen some of it. He's also doing a lot of installation and sound work that's really fascinating. I looked forward to meeting him as I have a great deal of respect for his work.
Last but not least we met Timeblind to talk about his music and SuperCollider. He is a dedicated user of the software and part of the developer community.
I've got loads of audio and video from this trip but unfortunately not the time to go through it. Maybe later. Probably never.
>> April 16 2008 <<
DIEM, Goodiepal and Krishve at the 5th Berlin Biennial for contemporary art
On the 16th of April 2008 Goodiepal will relocate his students from the Danish Royal Academy of Music in Århus to Berlin for what appears to be the last lecture in a series of computer and electronic music composition teachings for DIEM, Dansk Institut for Elektronisk Musik. Goodiepal, who has been leading the course, recently announced that unless changes were made to the way the school organizes staff, he would have to quit his job after the summer.
A link to this event at the Berlin biennial website.
This international event will also mark the premiere of a Goodiepal educational book called Mort Aux Vaches Ekstra Extra, which allows everyone participating to become the co-composer of Goodiepal’s new magnum work Mort Aux Vaches Ekstra.
The first graphical scores are already completed and we would like to bring your attention to a script by young Danish talent Martha Hviid, who the Goodiepal is very pleased to have as a co-composer on Mort Aux Vaches Ekstra.
Take a look at Martha Hviid’s composition.
To find out more, please materialize yourself here:
Wednesday, 16th of April 2008 at 20:00-23:00
City-Primary School, Berlin Mitte, Sebastianstrasse 57, 10179 Berlin-Kreuzberg
U2 Spittelmarkt, U8 Moritzplatz - free admission
After the Biennale some DIY scripts can be purchased for reasonable prices from Smallfish of London via their website.
Just type Goodiepal in the search box at Smallfish online, located at:
http://www.smallfish.co.uk
When I get back I'll post more about this event. Among other things I'll post pictures of my composition, and maybe some audio too.
>> March 18 2008 <<
Recently I mastered a 5 song CD for the band honning & mudder.
Actually it's quite good and worth checking out. In short, it's piano dressed up as guitar meets bass but falls in love with drums, while singer is busy singing. Later they have a meeting with PC to find out what's what. And I'm not saying this just because it's the troubled brainchild of a friend of mine, Mikkel Almholt. You can listen to it at honning & mudder (myspace) or you can get one from the band. I suggest getting one because that way you avoid the horrible MySpace mp3 *cough* "quality".
>> Febuary 25 2008 <<
Last week I attended a ... well, I don't quite know what it was, but a woman by the name of Roberta Settels came by DIEM to talk about a record she put out in 1985 called "Isolation". Actually it's the only record she has put out. Now it has been re-released by Jonas Olesens on his BIN label.
Roberta Settels was born in New York but lives in Sweden and France. According to one source she "is a composer and industrial designer, who composes electronic music for spiritual survival. She has been working with computer generated and processed music as well as concrete music at the EMS studio in Stockholm and IRCAM in Paris. Settels has also composed for TV-film, radio and concerts." She has worked with Xenakis and Boulez at IRCAM in Paris. Well, enough with the name-dropping. The bottomline - it's a great record. If you like minimal electroacoustic music buy this record. No. Buy two.
>> Febuary 5 2008 <<
I'm happy to announce that a Krishve 7 inch vinyl record is coming up in the very near future. At the moment the cover is being finalized and then it's a matter of waiting for the pressing plant to spew out some product.
More on this soon.
>> January 14 2008 <<
Every time I think about this it makes me angry ... Ultralyd, my favourite program on the radio, has been killed off. To me the only truly creative, and the most inspiring, program on the airwaves. Luckily the online archive of Ultralyd is stille available. Do yourself the favour of listening to a few of these broadcasts.
Ultralyd is, sorry, was ... a program on Danish Radios P1. Ultralyd used to be called Lydmuren and before that Lydpotten. Throughout it's existence it has been characterized by a playful attitude towards creating immersing soundscapes and
thought-provoking radio. The subject matter was a kaleidoscope of human reality. And now, help me build a bomb we can place under the Danish Ministry of Culture. These days it's filed under “football”.
>> January 4 2008 <<
You now have the unique chance to participate in an online experience involving sound, vision & the inimatable Gæoudjiparl van den Dobbelsteen!
Don't hesitate to click the link below and remember to follow the instructions to get the most out of this:
THE LINK
>> December 10 2007 <<
At last! Tonight “Den 11. time” airs the Goodiepal show. Krishve is featured as one of Goodiepal's students. It's on DR2, Danish national televison, at 11 pm.
The Goodiepal part of the show is only about a quarter of an hour in the televised edition, but online you are able to see the entire 50 minute session. If you go to the site you can find out more about Goodiepal and see/listen to presentations of the students who participated in the show, including Krishve. Go to the presentations.
>> November 19 2007 <<
Once again DR postpone the Goodiepal edition of “Den 11. time”. This is the show that was supposed to be aired on November the 14th.
>> November 17 2007 <<
The past week Goodiepal has been to Krabbesholm Højskole building three sound installations to be exhibited at the school. Krishve and six other students from DIEM came along to stay at the school and work on the installations.
Read a short news byte about it (in Danish): aarhus.nu and read about the history of the boxes, in which the installations are being exhibited, at the KBH Kunsthal website (also in Danish).
>> November 14 2007 <<
News just in: The Goodiepal edition of “Den 11. time” is postponed to Monday the 19th.
>> November 13 2007 <<
Tomorrow night at 23.30, Krishve is a guest in “Den 11. time”. It's a talk show on Danish television. Watch as Krishve, seven other students from DIEM, and their teacher/mentor/guru Goodiepal, turn the TV-studio into a classroom. Experience firsthand the unique teaching talents of the incredible Gæoudjiparl. The host of the show, Michael Bertelsen, take on the role as student.
Additionally the students will be featured on the website of the program. When I have a link I will post it here.
>> October 12 2007 <<
Tonight is "cultural night" in Århus and Copenhagen. As usual it's a mixture of consumer frenzy and cultural events of varying interest. Thankfully, some of the things going on are actually worth checking out. Talking of which, I want to promote some of my fellow students at DIEM. Karsten Pflum, Morten Riis and Jonas Olesen have accepted an invitation to play at the Danish Ministry of Culture in Copenhagen, tonight. Read more about it at the homepage of the Danish Ministry of Culture.
Check out the guys and their music:
Karsten Pflum
Morten Riis
Jonas Olesen
>> July 21 2007 <<
Today the music section has been updated. A list of releases featuring Krishve is introduced. Hopefully it will grow rapidly in the future. More mp3s have been uploaded, even a few brand spanking new ones! Check out "Alarm" and "BuzzMachine". Also all the tracks from "Cochlea EP" is now available for download. Go ahead and grab a few mpfrees in the music section.
Oh, and have you heard the one about iBeat? No? Well, a priest and three nuns go into a bar ...
iBeat.org is a fairly new site specializing in providing people with free samples. The samples are licensed under the Creative Commons License. Which basically means that you can do what you want with the samples, as long as you don't make any money from it.
All you have to do is go to the site, look around a bit and then grab the stuff that you like. If you're feeling up to it you can write a nice comment in the forum. You might even go as far as to upload the billion-$ hit in the making you have created with samples from the site. You even have a chance to win a prize for your work of art!
Krishve has created some of the samples you can download at iBeat. Check out the "Weird" and "Spanky" drum samples in the singleshots section. If you like Krishve's music and want to try to make your own Krishve-style track, then go and download the samples right away. Have fun!
In the future you'll also be able to download a bunch of loops created by Krishve.
>> April 25 2007 <<
And it's out! The new dark-ambient compilation "We Who With Music Beguile Your Pilgrimage To The Unknown II" featuring Krishve is out on Introvert Distortion. You can download the compilation here or by clicking the cover art below.
The track listing is as follows:
- Somnivore - A dialogue between a gasmask and the face of the sun
- Märgkvarn - Franz Josephs Land
- Howler - Equanimity
- Protoplasmic Reversion - Ripple
- Zerofication - Sunrise 92 Meters Below the Glacier Surface
- Krishve - Scala Vestibuli
- Protoplasmic Reversion - Antarktos
- Q Havelock - Hraesvelgr
- 1289481 - brilliant beast
- Kulturkrieg - Tabula Rasa
>> April 24 2007 <<
Tomorrow (April 25) Introvert Distortion release the second installment in the series of Nordic dark-ambient compilations "We Who With Music Beguile Your Pilgrimage To The Unknown". The first one was released in collaboration with TLHOTRA. Once again I'm happy to say that Krishve is in on the action with "Scala Vestibuli", the third track off of the "Cochlea EP". More details tomorrow if the release is out.
>> April 17 2007 <<
If you have the chance go and see the film Scott Walker: 30th Century Man, a documentary about – yes, you guessed it – Scott Walker. Anyone not familiar with the man and his strange and beautiful music ought to treat themselves to a fascinating look at one of the "weirdest men in pop", as one reviewer puts it. Come on, you know you want to.
>> April 5 2007 <<
I have uploaded the track "Scala Media (Letter From N. Megson)" from the Cochlea EP to the music section. Go and check it out. The track is made out of paper sounds. I recorded myself stroking, caressing, crumbling and tearing three pieces of paper. Afterwards the recordings were cut up, arranged and processed. I'm quite pleased with the result myself :)
>> March 15 2007 <<
You can read a review of Krishve's Cochlea EP at Thierry Massard's blog.
It is quite ... strange ...
>> March 8 2007 <<
LAST CHANCE!
Today is the last day you can download the Cochlea EP by Krishve, from Swedish netlabel FEED. Go and get it before it is too late.
>> March 1 2007 <<
Swedish netlabel FEED has released three new tracks by Krishve. The release is called Cochlea and is available from FEED for a short time only. You can download Cochlea during this period of time: March 1st -> March 8th 2007.
The download is free.
The three new tracks are:
- Scala Media (Letter From N. Megson)
- Scala Tympani
- Scala Vestibuli
FEED is worth watching as the label has an impressive ability to serve up beautiful and weird(!) music. The idea is to put up download only releases for a short time to create a feel similar to limited edition releases.
>> February 28 2007 <<
This is an interesting combination of psychoacoustics and extreme noise terror (no relation to the UK band, as far as I know): The Mosquito Kid Deterrent Device. I want one for Christmas ...
>> February 3 2007 <<
The Nordic dark ambient compilation "We Who With Music Beguile Your Pilgrimage To The Unknown", has been re-released on Introvert Distortion. Krishve is joining the party with the track "Ol' Nick".
>> December 17 2006 <<
Working on some tracks for a release on the swedish FEED label. One of the tracks is made out of recordings of me caressing, touching, feeling, fondling ... uuuh ... three ... pieces of ... paper ... aaaah ... That was ... mmmmmm ... nice.
>> October 9 2006 <<
My track "Ol' Nick" is out on new Nordic dark ambient compilation "We who with music beguile your pilgrimage to the unknown" on netlabel "Two left hands on two right arms". It's a download only release and it's abolutely FREE! You can get your hands on the compilation by going to the website of Two left hands on two right arms.
>> September 7 2006 <<
The computer game music is coming along nicely, thank you very much for asking. If possible I'll stick some of it in the music section later on. It depends on copyright/ownership/not announcing part of the product too early and all that lawyer speak.
>> July 29 2006 <<
Krishve performs with Torpedo vs. Selectricity at Psykopat Onsdag - Alléenberg, Copenhagen, August 2nd. We do unspeakable things to inanimate objects for your exquisite pleasure...
The show is on at 8 pm and it's absolutely FREE! In other words: No excuses accepted for not turning up.
Also appearing: One Eyed Mule and The Alpine.
>> July 13 2006 <<
There are some new images in ... wait for it ... the images section!
>> June 6 2006 <<
Working on music for some people making a computer game. More on this later ...
>> April 10 2006 <<
Because of glowing reviews by the nice Garageband community, Spermaceti Flop is track of the week in the experimental electronica category at Garageband. Krishve says "thank you" to all the people who took the time to listen to the track and who was kind enough to write a review.
>> April 3 2006 <<
Spermaceti Flop by Krishve is track of the day in the experimental electronica category at Garageband. In addition to being track of the day, the reviewers at GarageBand have given Spermaceti Flop the following awards: Best Keyboards, Best Programming, Best Production, Best Melody and Most Rocking Track in Experimental Electronica, week of 27 March 2006.
>> March 31 2006 <<
Grand designs for the rest of the year are brewing in my m-m-m-mind. When they assume some kind of tangible shape I will relate them to you.
>> March 28 2006 <<
This coming Monday (April 3) Spermaceti Flop is track of the day in the experimental electronica category at GarageBand. Go there and read some very nice peoples very nice reviews of the work of your humble servant.
>> March 21 2006 <<
New track Spermaceti Flop has been uploaded to the music section. I'm quite happy about the way it turned out. It took quite a lot of sitting up, lying down and flailing about.
>> January 5 2006 <<
The Krishve website is now running version 2. And what a difference it is! Gone are all the sad white stuff and the dancing mannequins. Ahh ...
>> December 21 2005 <<
What’s the matter with your face. Don’t look so sad.
... Well, you know ... it is happening again. I’m making great plans for tomorrow and then life gets in the way.
Ol' Nick is playing up again.
Decision of the Day: Attack is the best defense.
Anyway, now you are here you might as well listen to some noisecoreelectrohardcorepopglamgrinddancehallnewagerock’n’rollsoulpunk. Make up your own absolutely brain dead genre to file it under in your local supermarket.
I guarantee you will regret it. So ... Why don’t you go and fry your brain with some TV instead?