tag:,2013:/9 2013-04-23T07:54:13Z BJNilsen lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden, Born in 1975. He has been active with experimental music and sound since the early 1990s with various constellations. Since 1999 he has been releasing records as Hazard on the UK labels Ash International and Touch, making music and sound for documentary film, television and commercials. He is focused on the sound of nature and its effect on humans, field recordings and the perception of time and space as experienced through sound, sometimes electronically treated. Movable Type 3.35 tag:www.bjnilsen.com,2013://9.3905 2013-04-23T07:47:22Z 2013-04-23T07:54:13Z

May 2nd at Modern Art Oxford, 30 Pembroke Street, Oxford, OX1 1BP "DIGITAL IS DEAD is a festival about post-digital music practice. When digital technology is no longer novel, when zeroes and ones become ubiquitous in everyday life, what happens to the way people write music? Over three evenings and an afternoon from the 2nd to 4th of May, Oxford will play host to some of today's foremost electronic music artists. With headline sets from Tim Hecker, BJ Nilsen and Oval, this is an insanely rare opportunity to see some of the biggest names on the scene play on consecutive nights, all in the same place." More info here...

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@ General Public Release party for Hanno Leichtmann (DE) "minimal studies". Berlin. Thursday, March 28, 2013 20:00...

bjnlsen www.bjnilsen.com General Public Release party for Hanno Leichtmann (DE) "minimal studies". Berlin. Thursday, March 28, 2013 20:00 ]]> tag:www.bjnilsen.com,2012://9.3741 2012-12-18T16:14:37Z 2012-12-18T16:25:39Z

Sonic Acts - The Dark Universe @ Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Thursday 21 February 2013 Including: BJ Nilsen, J.G. Thirlwell, Jacob Kirkegaard, Jana Winderen, Maia Urstad, Kent Tankred, Finnbogi Pétursson, PerMagnus Lindborg, Christine Ödlund, Pomazzl Franz, Mike Harding, Tommi Grönlund & Petteri Nisunen and Carl Michael von Hausswolff...

bjnlsen www.bjnilsen.com Sonic Acts - The Dark Universe @ Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Thursday 21 February 2013 Including: BJ Nilsen, J.G. Thirlwell, Jacob Kirkegaard, Jana Winderen, Maia Urstad, Kent Tankred, Finnbogi Pétursson, PerMagnus Lindborg, Christine Ödlund, Pomazzl Franz, Mike Harding, Tommi Grönlund & Petteri Nisunen and Carl Michael von Hausswolff ]]> tag:www.bjnilsen.com,2012://9.3712 2012-12-04T16:00:11Z 2012-12-04T16:01:05Z

***STARTS WEDNESDAY*** [Tomorrow] FENNESZ SHOWCASES NEW MATERIAL • MASTERCLASS IN SOUND TECHNOLOGY AND DIGITAL MUSIC • PETER SAVILLE NAVIGATES THE BRIDGE BETWEEN DESIGN AND FINE ART • BRUCE GILBERT READING & MUCH MORE... "SOME KIND OF WOODSTOCK WHERE YOU WOULD LEAST EXPECT IT..." A two-day festival celebrating 30 years of Touch, with performances, installations and displays, and a full programme of workshops and masterclasses in design and music, recording, mastering and the digital realm. The full programme is now available to read below. Venue: Beaconsfield, 22 Newport St, Vauxhall, London, SE11 6AY Dates: 5-6 December 2012 The Festival Pass entitles you to access all events at this festival and is now onsale here: Buy the Festival Pass in the TouchShop Buy your ticket for 5th December 2012 (programme below) Buy your ticket for 6th December 2012 (programme below) Day tickets will be available on the door for £25 per night. Call on the day on 07958 984703 if you need to check on availability before you travel. Atmospheres 4 - Touch.30 at Beaconsfield is the main UK event in a year-round programme of activities celebrating 30 years of existence. Atmospheres 4 - Touch.30 at Beaconsfield is a two-day festival with performances, installations and displays, and a full programme of workshops and masterclasses. The Festival will explore all aspects of Touch: the music; the distinctive and influential design and photography; the process of recording and mastering; and the opportunities of the digital realm. Participation in the event will extend well beyond Touch artists and creative team into the hinterland around the label: academics, industry professionals, other ground breaking music organisations etc. Atmospheres will be curated by two of Touch's founders and the current creative team, Mike Harding and Jon Wozencroft, and produced by them with along with Touch's experienced digital and live production team already responsible this year for events in the UK, Germany, Belgium, USA and elsewhere detailed here. Day One – Wednesday 5th December 2012 Afternoon events, 2pm-6pm: • 2pm: Jon Wozencroft talks about the history of Touch, "Through the Digital Glass" • 2:30pm: Denis Blackham (Skye Mastering) and Christian Fennesz on mastering for digital manufacture and the demands of the "Venice" project • 3pm: "When did sound become music?" Sonic intervention from Panasonic. Chaired by John Kieffer: Denis Blackham, Jason (Transition Mastering Studios) and Jon Wozencroft, a panel on digital and analogue sound, and how this determines listening outcomes Sonic intervention from Ryoji Ikeda 4pm Break • 4:15pm approx. Edwin Pouncey discusses his record collection... • 4:30pm: Chaired by Tony Myatt (University of Surrey): Mike Harding, Seb Jouan (Aecom Acoustic Design & Arts & Culture) on multi-channel with Hildur Gudnadottir. This session reflects upon hi-audio formats, a specific example, and their future (Followed by questions) Screening Situations (upstairs), 6pm-7pm • Coda-plus 47 (audio by Fennesz & Ryoji Ikeda) • Liquid Music (audio by Fennesz) Evening Performances, 8pm-11pm • Hildur Gudnadottir - Leyfɗu Ljósinu (Beaconsfield version) • audio intervention by David Toop, a presentation of "Yanomamo Shamanism", released on 'Touch Travel' [T4] in 1984. • Philip Jeck • People Like Us - 4' 33" • audio intervention by BJNilsen, who plays a new piece recorded outside the School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, "The cackle of dogs and laughter of death". • Playback of a surround-sound rendition of his Touch.30 piece "Brussels Nord" by Chris Watson (in absentia) • Fennesz Day Two – Thursday 6th December 2012 Afternoon events, 2pm-6pm: • 2pm: Mike Harding introduces Touch's digital presence on the web with Philip Marshall (websites) & Tim Medcalf (iOS devices) followed by at • 2:45pm: Paul Wilson & Cheryl Tipp from The British Library on the TouchRadio archive • 3pm: Jon Wozencroft & Garry Mouat - "Bromides and Spray Mount" - Touch design in the early years • 3:45pm: Design Seminar by Jon Wozencroft - How Touch has responded to changing formats and download culture •: 4:30pm Jon Wozencroft & Peter Saville discuss their parallel experience of visual culture, and the movement of graphic design to the art world (Followed by questions) Screening Situations (upstairs), 6pm-7:15pm • The Whitstable Symphony (audio by BJNilsen) • The Suffolk Symphony (audio by Philip Jeck & BJNilsen) Evening Performances, 8pm-11pm • Thomas Köner • followed by an audio intervention by Bruce Gilbert - "Sliding off the World" • CM von Hausswolff • Jon Wozencroft introduces Jon Savage's and his pirate broadcast for Network 21 in 1987 • Biosphere - transfiguring Arnold Schoenberg's “Verklärte Nacht” Bar area: audio interventions by Simon Fisher Turner and others… In the Bar: Photography by Jon Wozencroft: The Listening Eye Buy the Festival Pass in the TouchShop Buy your ticket for 5th December 2012 Buy your ticket for 6th December 2012 ]]> tag:www.bjnilsen.com,2012://9.3668 2012-10-15T10:30:50Z 2012-10-15T10:37:48Z

Thomas Köner, BJNilsen, Philip Jeck Thursday 22nd November 2012, 8.00pm Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow...

bjnlsen www.bjnilsen.com Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow ]]> tag:www.bjnilsen.com,2012://9.3625 2012-08-30T15:47:47Z 2012-08-30T16:07:42Z

The Whitstable Symphony, with audio by BJNilsen and images by Jon Wozencroft, was commissioned by The Whitstable Biennale and will be screened on September 1st-16th 2012 at Whitstable Museum and Gallery....

bjnlsen www.bjnilsen.com The Whitstable Symphony, with audio by BJNilsen and images by Jon Wozencroft, was commissioned by The Whitstable Biennale and will be screened on September 1st-16th 2012 at Whitstable Museum and Gallery. ]]> tag:www.bjnilsen.com,2012://9.3624 2012-08-30T15:38:39Z 2012-08-30T16:05:53Z

WHO#02 - The Swifter Limited Edition Vinyl LP Projected release date: October 2012 (TBC) Track listing: A1: End of Capstan Bars A2: Neap tide B1: Swallow B2: Wave Guidance Allows Three Photography – Chris Bigg. Introducing The Swifter – a new trio featuring Andrea Belfi (drums and percussion), BJNilsen (electronics) and Simon James Phillips (piano). Their debut album documents the first encounter of the three musicians. Recorded live in the Grunewald Church, Berlin, careful attention was given to capturing the unique resonant acoustic offered by the airy, stone building, exhibiting the broad palate of aesthetic qualities the group are able to create. Subtly evolving sound worlds that evoke, at times, the loneliness within a ship’s hold; a relentlessly driven wall of harmonically rich sound or a sonic fog that lifts to reveal a delicate instrumental discourse. Nilsen sources material from the soundboard of the giant Bösendorfer Imperial concert grand played by Phillips. This setup facilitates a oneness of sound that Nilsen subtly manipulates to either augment or contrast against the unique sonic world of Phillips’ playing – which is carefully punctuated or driven by Belfi’s distinctive style. The album’s cover features double-exposure photography shot by Chris Bigg (David Sylvian/4AD). Available as a limited edition vinyl LP and as FLAC download on The Wormhole, a byproduct of The Tapeworm....

bjnlsen www.bjnilsen.com WHO#02 - The Swifter Limited Edition Vinyl LP Projected release date: October 2012 (TBC) Track listing: A1: End of Capstan Bars A2: Neap tide B1: Swallow B2: Wave Guidance Allows Three Photography – Chris Bigg. Introducing The Swifter – a new trio featuring Andrea Belfi (drums and percussion), BJNilsen (electronics) and Simon James Phillips (piano). Their debut album documents the first encounter of the three musicians. Recorded live in the Grunewald Church, Berlin, careful attention was given to capturing the unique resonant acoustic offered by the airy, stone building, exhibiting the broad palate of aesthetic qualities the group are able to create. Subtly evolving sound worlds that evoke, at times, the loneliness within a ship’s hold; a relentlessly driven wall of harmonically rich sound or a sonic fog that lifts to reveal a delicate instrumental discourse. Nilsen sources material from the soundboard of the giant Bösendorfer Imperial concert grand played by Phillips. This setup facilitates a oneness of sound that Nilsen subtly manipulates to either augment or contrast against the unique sonic world of Phillips’ playing – which is carefully punctuated or driven by Belfi’s distinctive style. The album’s cover features double-exposure photography shot by Chris Bigg (David Sylvian/4AD). Available as a limited edition vinyl LP and as FLAC download on The Wormhole, a byproduct of The Tapeworm. ]]> tag:www.bjnilsen.com,2012://9.3529 2012-05-17T08:40:58Z 2012-05-17T08:49:47Z

JUNE 07 # PIERRE HÉBERT & LORI FREEDMAN + BJ NILSEN & KARL LEMIEUX + MAUSSADE @ EXCENTRIS 8:30 PM...

bjnlsen www.bjnilsen.com EXCENTRIS 8:30 PM ]]> tag:www.bjnilsen.com,2012://9.3475 2012-04-11T07:19:24Z 2012-04-19T11:06:29Z

Broken Sound: BJ Nilsen (live), Achim Mohné (live), The Ash International Sound System (DJ Set), Mike Harding (lecture on TOUCH) Studio 672 Venloer Straße 40 50672 Köln, Deutschland +49) 0221 952994-0...

bjnlsen www.bjnilsen.com Studio 672 Venloer Straße 40 50672 Köln, Deutschland +49) 0221 952994-0 ]]> tag:www.bjnilsen.com,2012://9.3461 2012-03-23T16:41:49Z 2012-03-23T16:42:02Z

We have 40 free tickets available in the TouchShop for: May 3rd Touch.30 live at Kingston University Improvisation and Digital Arts Festival Market House, Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey UK Live: Philip Jeck - www.philipjeck.com BJNilsen - www.bjnilsen.com Chris Watson - www.chriswatson.net 1500-1700 Touch Seminar: Mike Harding chairs a panel with the artists 2000-2200 Touch.30 Live http://www.idaf.co.uk/...

Field www.field.nu TouchShop for: May 3rd Touch.30 live at Kingston University Improvisation and Digital Arts Festival Market House, Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey UK Live: Philip Jeck - www.philipjeck.com BJNilsen - www.bjnilsen.com Chris Watson - www.chriswatson.net 1500-1700 Touch Seminar: Mike Harding chairs a panel with the artists 2000-2200 Touch.30 Live http://www.idaf.co.uk/]]> tag:www.bjnilsen.com,2012://9.3386 2012-01-25T10:27:32Z 2012-01-25T10:40:44Z

New Urban Laboratory Artist-in-Residence Sound artist and musician Benny Nilsen has won a Leverhulme Trust residency to work with Professor Matthew Gandy. BJNilsen will introduce and work with sound at the UCL/Urban Lab throughout 2012. More info to follow....

bjnlsen www.bjnilsen.com Urban Laboratory Artist-in-Residence Sound artist and musician Benny Nilsen has won a Leverhulme Trust residency to work with Professor Matthew Gandy. BJNilsen will introduce and work with sound at the UCL/Urban Lab throughout 2012. More info to follow.]]> tag:www.bjnilsen.com,2012://9.3385 2012-01-25T10:10:04Z 2012-01-25T10:27:25Z

OREN AMBARCHI + DANIEL MENCHE + BJNILSEN...

bjnlsen www.bjnilsen.com OREN AMBARCHI + DANIEL MENCHE + BJNILSEN]]> tag:www.bjnilsen.com,2012://9.3384 2012-01-25T10:07:57Z 2012-01-25T10:17:28Z

Andersson Dance in co-production with Aarhus Theatre. Opening February 7th 2012 at Aarhus Teater, Aarhus. BAROQUE PAINTING AND NATURE AS MUSICAL SCORES FOR MOVEMENT ”Name of the next song” is the new creation by Örjan Andersson, created together with four dancers from the US, Spain and Israel as well as musician and composer BJNilsen who created electronic music with nature as a starting point....

bjnlsen www.bjnilsen.com Andersson Dance in co-production with Aarhus Theatre. Opening February 7th 2012 at Aarhus Teater, Aarhus. BAROQUE PAINTING AND NATURE AS MUSICAL SCORES FOR MOVEMENT ”Name of the next song” is the new creation by Örjan Andersson, created together with four dancers from the US, Spain and Israel as well as musician and composer BJNilsen who created electronic music with nature as a starting point.]]> tag:www.bjnilsen.com,2012://9.3383 2012-01-25T10:01:03Z 2012-01-25T10:09:57Z

KARL LEMIEUX (ca) & BJ NILSEN (se) Double Négatif Karl Lemieux makes short films and film performances also creating 16mm film for musicians such as Godspeed You! Black Emperor and The Black Keys. His Rotterdam visit, is one of dream fulfilment, allowing his very first live collaboration with Touch’s BJ Nilsen to become flesh. Primarily focused on the sound of nature and its effect on humans, BJNilsen’s powerful field recording based compositions will powwow with Lemieux’s freshly arid footage of Death Valley. @ WORM Rotterdam, NL...

bjnlsen www.bjnilsen.com WORM Rotterdam, NL]]> tag:www.bjnilsen.com,2011://9.3276 2011-11-07T11:33:05Z 2011-11-07T11:52:12Z

Huis a/d Werf Thursday 8 dec, 20:30 Powered by Gaudeamus Muziekweek / PUMP Tickets here: www.muziekweek.nl...

bjnlsen www.bjnilsen.com Huis a/d Werf Thursday 8 dec, 20:30 Powered by Gaudeamus Muziekweek / PUMP Tickets here: www.muziekweek.nl]]>