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Thursday, March 13, 2025
Mørkeromsworkshop med Morten Krogvold
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Engebretsen: Art of noise (Unpublished)
Monday, March 10, 2025
Jørgen Lund Karlsen - saksofonist
Kjenner gåsehuden sitte enda. Over en uke etterpå. Det var dette øyeblikket… Som bare musikken kan skape. Kanskje bare en detalj, klang eller lyd i et musikkverk. Den som gir ekstrem velvære av noe vakkert. Denne gangen varte øyeblikket i flere minutter! Konstant gåsehud på grensen til Stendhal syndrom via ørene.
Vi må til utstillingsåpningen på Soli Brug søndag 2.mars.
Nye og spennende verker av Henrik Placht og Elisabeth Werp. Samt et gjensyn med
noen av Kai Fjell`s verker. Åpningstale av Robert Stoltenberg. Om utstillingene:
Gå og se!
Så skjer det som for alltid vil føles som noe helt unikt. Inn på tunet kommer det en «fyr» som spiller saksofon. Med folketoner kommer Jørgen Lund Karlsen spillende inn fra siden. Gjennom folkemengden. Opp til podiet foran Stabbursgalleriet. Så skjer det. I bakgrunnen har lydtekniker Jacob Dørje det viktige oppdraget med å sette i gang et forhåndsinnspilt lydspor av Jørgen, med riktig «timing». Synth og trommer med dype og lange romklanger. Jørgen spiller uavbrutt videre på verket, som nå tillegges en helt ny dimensjon. Tonene fra saksofonen, den underbyggende melodien og stemningen som presser seg frem. Vi er vitne til noe stort. Veldig stort. Publikum skjønner det.
Musikken svever over hele plassen. Det kan minne om Jan Garbarek på sitt aller, aller beste. Vi er vitne til en fremføring, komponert på folketoner, arrangert og utført av Jørgen Lund Karlsen. Her og nå.
Noe vi aldri noensinne har hørt. En
stemningsbombe, så selv de mest taletrengte blir stille. Det er store minutter
vi er vitne til. Alle føler det. Tror ikke det er bare meg. En utrolig
fremførelse som ikke er gitt ut på plate enda. (Hører dere ECM?) Mine damer og
herrer: Jørgen Lund Karlsen! Garbarek`s arvtager. Norsk folkesjel og et
mesterverk fremført.
Tekst og portrettfoto: Tom Ståle Engebretsen
Mobil/film opptak: Terese Fjell. (Takk for at du klarte å
filme dette øyeblikket)
Jørgen Lund Karlsen kan følges på instagram: @saksonfonizt
Natt og Dag - poesi
Natt og dag.
Tekst og foto: Tom Ståle Engebretsen
Jeg er natt og dag.
En solens mester som trives i lyset.
En budbringer om glede og tilhørighet.
Men bærer også godt på en skyggenes mester.
En mørkets livserkjennelse,
hvor tungsinnet har grodd frem av erfaringer.
Den dype satire er medisinen. Aldri et mørke uten optimisme og lys.
Mørket trives i selvmedlidenheten.
Men det er kanskje en overlevelseskamp.
Tilpassing er heller ikke noe mål.
Den sorte estetikk er forlokkende og forførende.
Den har en kreativ kraft.
Den positive energien er å foretrekke.
Den skaper mer. Mye mer.
Så står jeg i spagaten mellom disse to.
Det er natt og dag.
Men egentlig livet i seg selv.
Photoshoot session of Elrox by Ingar Aarvik
Ingar Aarvik is a photographer I have known for years! He is located in Vestby. So I was happy when he needed models for a photo project he was working on. (Autumn -24) So he arranged a photoshoot session where I, aka Elrox, could get some good pictures.
Shooting in black and white on film! No digital. Love it.
Fun time doing this for sure! Thx!
Peak no. 8 on ambient chart!
My song "Peaceful Wave" did peak No. 8 on Soundclick`s ambient chart in february. Pretty proud of that.
I have uploaded some songs on soundclick from time to time through many years. I must admit I really don`t know how big it is, or how many listeners there are. No stats to be read. But since the beginning this site has developed well, and I think very pro.
I put some songs on Soundclick from time to time. Mostly songs that doesn`t fit into another project of mine.- Or songs that I may use later. All together 3 top 50 songs, and probably 1K listeners on my stuff.
Since the site is growing, I really did not think a chart would be possible anymore. I was wrong. Perhaps I getting better myself too.... Listen to "Peaceful Wave" here.
Sunday, March 9, 2025
Cover art/design: Unts Unts - Contemporary electronic music from Norway
This is actually a community on facebook that I`ve been member, since long time ago. As a composer/artist. It is a forum where a lot of synth nerds in Norway are connected. Yearly releases since 2018. They are on streaming services like Spotify etc. But there also is a bandcamp site with lot more info.
As an artist myself I have contributed on these albums. But this year (2024 was released at the end of the year and is more like 2025 release) I also did the album covers! With both photo and design.
Listen to volum A by clicking this link.
I am also in it this year with my song: The Sirens Of Titan.
All together there is 30 songs or should I say Unts Unts Plinks and Plonks music. Extremely high quality on participations.
released December 31, 2024
Cover art and graphics: Tom Ståle Engebretsen
Mastering: Jørgen Kirksæther
Producer: Morten Birkeland Nielsen
Artist portrait of Jan Walaker
Artist portrait of Anne Chris Bakker
Artist portrait of Helene Fjell
"Lost Signals"
"Year of the Snake"
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
FAWM 2025 February Album Writing Month
Year Of The Snake by @engebretsen #tribal #indierock #electronic
Lost Signals by @engebretsen #cinematic #orchestral #instrumental
Peaceful Wave by @engebretsen #triphop #chill #ambient
Fragment by @engebretsen #oraclechallenge #drone #ambient
Chili by @engebretsen #chill #instrumental
Art Of Noise by @engebretsen #ebm #idm #noise
Life Goes On by @engebretsen #poprock #dreampop #synthpop
And I must reply this comments on "Life Goes On" from @cts
Sunday, January 12, 2025
Children In Space (Unpublish music. Yet.)
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
Spiritwalker 2 Video
Ok. Last post was about my video commitment and the use of black and white. And now... Something completely different. And with this video I introduce a brand new world. It is made using AI. But it is more to it than that. First of all I wanted to have control about the landscape this visuals move into. Using already AI generated pictures, that I have been working on for a long time. I do create my own world here.
And it is named: OLVENION. An earth like planet, and from my fantasy. This is going to be a music album in the future. I have used the named Olvenion on an earlier release. You find it here: Olvenion. But that time it was an experiment, and the artist name is all wrong today. But I like the Olvenion concept about this planet, so there will be more. (But another artist name on the release.) And of course it has developed a lot. I have been working on the music of course. But there is an era in the pictures too. They will be presented on a later stage. Maybe as an exhibition and book. Using some of these photos (AI) to make this more alive in a music video. It is my first attempt on doing video using AI. To get better quality I have to pay too much. I sure hate when you have to sign for subscription. I paid the cheapest one for now. But so it is. In this video I also use some Olvenion portraits of me. They who know me, probably recognizes me.
Anyway: This is way to early to announce this project. But I was really inspired when I made this video. AI is funny. But it sure is a challenge to get it within the design profile I wan`t. But the cost are all together low, and to make this video would have been impossible otherwise. So there is something good about it too.
Tuesday, November 26, 2024
VIDEO Manifest
Color is everything.
Black and white is more.
I min kunst handler det om å sette rammer. Gjerne et bevegelsesområde man holder seg innenfor. Dette skjer med både en psykisk og fysisk tilnærming. På godt norsk kalles det «location». Et sted der alt er lov i en kreativ flyt.
Med solid bakgrunn som fotograf tar jeg
dette med til film. Spontaniteten, som det er å fotografere, handler om å være
på rett sted til rett tid.
Men å planlegge hva som skal skje er oftest
en umulig forutsetning. Man henter inn hele seg selv til øyeblikket. En kreativ
boble. Filmoppskriften er normalt annerledes. Man jobber med manus og skript.
Noe som etter min mening begrenser den kreative friheten.
Grunntanken er 3 parallelforløp som
forteller historien:
1.
Hovedperson (er) Portrett, karakteristikk,
personlighet.
2.
Bevegelse i handling. Fra noe til noe.
3.
Et grunnleggende enkelt poeng som handlingen vil
frem til.
Bilde sekvensene i filmingen er derfor mer tilnærmet
fotografiet enn film. Det som skal skje på et sted, skal skje der. Impulsivt,
kreativt og i samspill med aktører. Det er slik man fotograferer. Det er slik
jeg vil lage filmsekvenser.
Grunnideen ligger klar på forhånd. En viss idè om hvor mange
filmsekvenser man trenger til en ferdig video, er også klar på forhånd. Resten
er opp til oss å skape.
Tom Ståle Engebretsen
November 2024
Elrox: Selveste Direktøren (Official Music Video)
Thursday, July 25, 2024
"Short Story"
Sunday, May 26, 2024
Elrox: "Somewhere" (Official music video)
Sunday, March 24, 2024
"Heaven"
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
"Spiritwalker" at Røros
Vinter
Det Gjør Ikke Det
Hvem skulle det vært?
I like the edge in here, good fuzz on the guitar and your voice sounds
great with it!
@kristian 2w
nice! Cool to hear norwegian lyrics too; far too few :) I don't think
this song is that aggressive to be honest; it's more like defiance and standing
your ground if that makes sense?
Monday, March 18, 2024
FAWM 2024 February Album Writing Month
February Album Writing Month. 11.th time this year. This community is really inspirering for doing new songs. And I always challenge myself to do thing that is outside my comfort zone. This year it was really a bad environment for me to work under. Except the beginning where I was at my cottage in Rendalen for 10 days. After that I had to be on Nesodden due to moving to a new apartment that was not ready. So I had the minimum of equipment to work with, in a really small space. Really small! But I worked it out somehow. 13 new songs. Or demo songs is maybe a better word. This is composer month and the real production coming up later. But as I did 2 years ago, I made videos of some of them this year also. (Only excerpts from the full songs)
fawm.org is really a friendly community. 2600 people are into this. Of course I can`t get to know them all. But over the years there are some good fellow musicians that I get to know. This year I will mention @heliosonorous that follow me and comments all songs. Thank you! I feel that I didn`t respond to all my friends this year as I should. That is because of the challenge I had to work under. The more you give the more you get. But this year I had to focus on time and space to actually get something done at all. All time low actually. But that is to change next year I hope.
I also did more songs with norwegian lyrics this year. To write lyrics is quite a challenge for me. I am an instrumental guy after all. But I think a challenge to struggle with, is good for the creativity.
So here are the title of the songs I did this year:
Home again by @engebretsen #techno #fawmtronica #synthpop
Gone Too Far by @engebretsen #fawmtronica #cinematic #soundscape
Hvem skulle det vært? by @engebretsen #rock #postpunk
Vinter by @engebretsen #fawmtronica #electronic #instrumental
There Was A Time by @engebretsen #disco #synthpop #80s
Tell me by @engebretsen #poprock
Det Gjør Ikke Det by @engebretsen #rock #singer_songwriter #dark
Heaven by @engebretsen #fawmtronica #instrumental #soundscape
Go Go Go by @engebretsen #electro_prog #prog #cinematic
Spiritwalker by @engebretsen #fawmtronica #cinematic #instrumental
Come Closer by @engebretsen #electronic #rock #pop_rock
Livet er kort by @engebretsen #folk #singer_songwriter #indie_folk
Don`t Care by @engebretsen #singer_songwriter #dark #softrock
So moody! Love the drums and the bass work, so catchy.
Dark as a moonlit landscape. Well done!
Dark? Yes please. That sinister bass is like butter. When it drops out
for the verses, it really leaves a hole, doesn't it? Nice one!
Dark and powerful, the melody hits hard and grabs the attention!
I really like the percussion here. The emotion comes across in the
lyrics, the arrangement and the music. It is hard when someone hurts you and
tries to come back to normal without a process.
This reminds me a bit of early Pink Floyd.
And a little bit of The Church.
Cool
little tune.