i am a soundartist from kristiansand, norway. operating in the field of experimental music; acoustic, electroacoustic & electronic. in my soundart / project, i recycle sounds of everyday-objects/found objects and left-overs, and also different musical instruments, try to cultivate the beauty in them by manipulating in an editor in my old, noisy pc.
as a starting point, my sounds are handmade, you may say.
working with simple tools, my project - so far - has been to make & collect sounds in my house and the immediate local environment. i use contactmicrophones, digital recorder & other cheap microphones. found objects are also important parts in my sound-compositions, that be a scrap toy car, floorlamp, dried leaves or a piece of wood. i also use instruments like 4 & 12 string bass guitars, 3 stringed acoustic guitar, flutes & a mouth organ coming from an accordion. often the compositions - or the soundpictures - are a study of one object, worked with in a software-editor. the compositions often comes to life through improvisations - deconstructed & reworked.

i also like making pictures to go with the sounds, these also from my local environment. i have no formal education, but have always been drawing & painting, and did study various graphical techniques with well known artists back in the 1970's. i have also played in some different rock & punk bands in that period.

in 2007, i have released several tracks through the internet, - alone, and in collaborations with others - free to download.

in 2008, several releases came out: "dagbue" (homophoni - label, usa), "encoded" (tecnonucleo, spain) my first cd "septober" was released on the q-tone label in munich, and the 3"cdr "november x" (TIBProd. - norway) came out in the end of 2008. in between, there has been collaborations & participations on several compilations, on-line and on cdr's.

more releases are on their way for 2009.


http://www.myspace.com/terjepaulsen

experimental music