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Game Music

NTNU’s new online game, “Kampen om framtiden”, has lately recieved a lot of attention. The game is developed by Terravision and NTNU, and we’ve produced the music.

The theme is based around the same theme we made for NTNU in an earlier campaign, but updated to sound more ‘gameish’. The tune we initially created for NTNU gradually established itself as the university’s musical identity. The background music is available as a mobile ringtone by sending SKAPENDE to 2097 (1,- NOK). Enjoy!

Kapp til Kapp wins the Audience Award

«Kapp til Kapp» received The Audience Award at The Norwegian Documentary Festival in Volda. The documentary series is made by Ekkofilm and Klipp og Lim has produced the music.

The series follow Espen and Matias and their efforts to hitchhike from Norway’s northernmost point to the southernmost point of Africa. The premise for this undertaking is to travel without spending money.

Besides this major disadvantage of not having any financial means, the globetrotters have to face a number of challenges. They must make it through freezing winter, Finnish forests, pyramids, deserts and intense heat, starvation, wildlife, poor roads, tropical climate and probably an engine failure or two.

The series has been sold to TV 2 and will be aired in the course of 2009.

Official Secrets Act – So Tomorrow

Came across this awesome video, created by James Houston who also created the amazing “Big Ideas” remix. I just love how he’s thoroughly designed every single scene in this video to look so extremely retro-futuristic.

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TrondheimSoloists nominated for three GRAMMY Awards

We congratulate our partner and client, TrondheimSoloists, on three GRAMMY-nomitations for Best Surround Sound Album (Divertimenti), Best Engineered Album and Best Small Ensemble Performance. This is the first time a Norwegian CD has been nominated in three categories. The 51st Annual GRAMMY Awards will be held on February 8, 2009, at Staples Center in Los Angeles and will be broadcast live in high-definition TV and 5.1 surround sound on CBS.

Congratulations!

The Archive

I found this short documentary well worth watching. There’s been online discussions regarding the question if this archive is really worth saving, if he’s just greedy wanting money for it or if it’s a great shame that no one has offered him the collection’s worth yet. Even if you don’t care about the cause it’s still a good story, and in my personal opinion it’s would be very sad if this collection wasn’t preserved for future generations.

If you’ve got too much money on your hands and want to buy the collection for yourself, check out the official site.

Sonans

We’ve produced this little commercial spot for  Sonans:

Audio Production in 5.1 Surround

I’ve recently acquired a full 5.1 Surround system which I’m playing around with. For those not familiar with the term, here’s a short introduction:

A multichannel sound technology that produces five channels of sound in the left, right, center, left surround and right surround positions. 5.1 systems also have 1 channel for LFE (low frequency effects) which is usually sent to a subwoofer. (from webopedia)

Simply put, you get a much richer 360° experience when producing audio. This is not only a lot of fun, but really takes it to the next level in terms of making music or sounds for any project where there’s a 5.1 system available for playback, and is something I’m hoping we’ll get to put to use soon. For instance, the new TrondheimSoloists album Divertimenti, released on Blu-ray (the world’s first music Blu-ray actually), utilizes this technology and it’s safe to say more will be released in the future.

Check out www.umfeld.tv to witness an intense 5.1 project – and make sure you’re not using tiny laptop speakers when hearing this :)