Artist description mortenson, nosnetrom, mc homeboy, its all about a girl in barcelona... Mortenson is currently a one-woman band playing live concerts (or abstract dj-sets); experimenting widely from beat boxing to dusty organs and lush noises from loose cables. The music is melancholically brave with twisted beats, breaks and soundscapes of real life recordings. Crisp samples and layers of melodies are webbed into each other, varied with (reversed) vocals on top. Live on stage she takes use of machines, effect units, instruments and special-built microphones for the playing with words & voices. Mortenson was sellected as the titled Resident Artist of 2003 at the annual experimental festival LEM, based in Gracia, Barcelona. The past year has been very progressive playing concerts, making new tracks & songs, and touring Europe last April with visual constructor Mia Makela a.k.a. SOLU from Finland. Also an acoustic band was formed with Stéphane Olive and Juanca Aranda. Joined together in kicking ass on the acoustic field of a melt-together of folk/post rock/jazz. Straight forward and struggling the microphone with peculiar poetry.

Music Style something out of the pocket

Musical Influences ani d for president

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Artist History From a traditional training which included the study of accordion (which, according to her bio note, was a consequence of her family's activities, for her father was a mechanic and her mother an organist), Heidi Mortenson went on to study modern dance and choreography, practiced piano and acoustic guitar and finally decided to travel to Barcelona. Electronic music revealed both a new sonic universe and a creative and different scene. Thus, she began studying machines and computer in depth while recording her voice inside a washing-machine. She has since then moved onto sampler, melodica, beatbox, toy organs and walkie-talkies. A renewed interest in folk made her combine all these instruments with melodica and voice. Magical and melancholic music halfway between noise and melody on twisted beats.

Group Members one woman band

Instruments melodica, accordeon, acoustic guitar, organ, jewharp, voice.

Albums mortenson: "nosnetrom" (nosnetrecordings) / nosnetrom: "snippets of tape" (micro cassette recordings 01) / nosnetrom: "more snippets of tape" (micro cassette recordings 02) / compilation: (discosnoise 04) / compilation: "LEM 2002" (gracia territori) / varios artists EP: (softly 01) / compilation: "mmmzzz..." (oozebapcd014)

Press Reviews Heidi Mortenson (Nosnetrom), who is very experimental and always on the run for new figures in music. She expresses depth, freshness and melancholy. cio dór (shejay mag) [ October 14, 2003 ] PERCUSSIVE DANISH MP3S: Among the most recent posts to 8bitrecs.com are three MP3 files (all rich with abstract computerized percussion, and available as streams and downloads) from Barcelona-based, Denmark-born Heidi Mortenson. Mortenson and her deconstructed pop, one of the talented exiting surprises of the LEM festival. (mundo sonoro)

Additional Info i like to invent new instruments

Location Barcelona, Catalunya - Spain

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