Coming up: My first concert ever!

(Me practicing for my first concert in the basement. Selfportrait) The 2. june I will have my debut concert at "Musikkens dag" on "Signalen", Nesodden! This is really outside my big comfort zone. But it`s there it happens they say... So for the next 3 weeks I have to practice each and every day. I have picked out 5 songs that I have to find a way to play LIVE. It will be, of course, major playback, but I have to do something on stage. Bass guitar, and vocal! Ohh yeah. That´s scary to think about. I am so nervous, but also excited to take part of this big arrangement with a lot of different band. I got about 30 minutes to present myself. I made myself a rehersal-room at the basement. I thought it would be more quiet to my neighbors. But I´m really not sure if this is a good solution. I was testing this out today,(see picture) but you could hear me in the entrance of the building. Since I´m trying to sing, I really need to be all alone, and no one to hear... Yet. I been to my parents house and they have this old store house that I maybe try instead. Moving there probably these next days. Only 3 weeks before I´m on stage for the first time in my life. Gaaaasp!

Foto fra Nesoddmarka

Some photo`s from yesterday´s photohunting with H. These pictures was taken at a marvelous place nearby Røer gård at Nesodden. A beautiful forest, and we will soon do some more photos here... I´m using my new objective "Lens baby" for the first time. I really enjoyed using this lens. Mostly because I´m always like those painting feelings, but normally I cant get anything sharp, to achieve this. But this objective did that marvelous. Finally I can control what I want. Looking forward to a good photosummer.

Rock FM på Tangenfestivalen 2012

Årets Tangenfestival ble en suksess. Godværet tittet frem og vi Rock FM hadde en herlig økt på festivalen. I år var vi 3 som hadde anledning; f.v.: Geir Fosby, Tom Ståle Engebretsen, Jon Christian Lie. Vi fikk virkelig promotert Rock FM i år. Undertegnede hadde rollen som konferansier og informant for Tangenfestivalen. Samtidig var vi flinke i år til å snakke om Rock FM. Og det ble servert musikk av beste Rock kvalitet. Det sørget vi alle 3 for! Klapp, klapp!

Herunder er også oversikten over mine program i det siste. Når dette skrives har jeg passert 100 programmer på Rock FM!

Drawings Celebrities

Bill Nighy - actor. One of my favourit actor. I like´d him a lot when he play the chief editor in the english original BBC version of "State of play".

Woody Allen - His films are getting better and better. Respect!

Maybe I should do a lot more drawings. I did a few today, and I was thinking of Andy Warhol... By no means, mine are far out from what he did. But is enjoyable to do this. And only the actors and artists that I like!

Salsnes i Fosnes kommune Nord Trøndelag

Music commercial

I made the music in this promo video for Wings of Desire. It´s gonna be a book by Helene Fjell and fakir Håvve Fjell.
I made 6 short songs to do this video. The best one is that who´s used. No doubt. Maybe there can be a market in doing short songs for commercial use... Just thinking loud. I enjoy doing this, and Helene is great in making videos from her own photographs.

DJ Mix: Jazzman

One of my most played program on mixcloudis the first Jazzman I made. So this is the follow up program. and it´s probably some of my best mixes ever. I never thought that it should be with jazz music, but it is. This one is so relaxing and lovely to listen to. It´s there!
I made the cover from my own picture, and I used a little time on this. I have made a double CD box inside a DVD cover. I will send this out to my customers that hire me as a DJ. An exclusive box. It´s not what I play as DJ (yet) but I think this is really good music to listen to. Click the play button beneath and welcome to my music world in one and a half hour.

Jazzman 2 by Tom Ståle Engebretsen on Mixcloud

Zarepta på Rock FM Oversikt program 82-90

Her er oversikten over mine program nr 82-90 på Rock fm!
Det ble blant annet 4 programmer om Alan Parsons Project! Den første kan du høre under her! Ellers ligger resten av denne serien på min webportal på Mixcloud. Her legger jeg ut mange av de beste programmene mine, så det er bare å klikke seg videre!
Ellers vil jeg gjerne si noe om designet til disse coverne jeg lager til radioprogrammene mine på rock fm (Som altså heter Zarepta) Det går sport i å ikke bruke mer enn 10 minutter på å lage de. Jeg får en kjapp ide på hvilke bilder jeg har i fotoarkivet mitt, så skal det tilpasses og designes på 10 minutter! Ikke alle blir like bra, men stort sett blir de OK. De skal være informative med hensyn til spilleliste. Ikke vurder disse som en del av design-tingene jeg gjør. Det bruker jeg lenger tid på! Ihvertfall ideen til coverne. Rock fm coverne er bare en trening i hurtighet og effektivitet. Uansett er det musikken som teller og på Mixcloud.com
ligger det MASSE forskjellig musikk. Ta en titt innom, så finer du det du liker også. Nesten garantert! Kos deg med musikken.

Zarepta No 86 The Alan Parsons Project part 1 by Tom Ståle Engebretsen on Mixcloud

Black and white photo

Dovre Dovrefjell in Norway.

This is from Erdalen outside Stryn/Oppstryn i Norway. Absolutely my favovourite photo place!

Kjenndalsbreen as it was some years ago. Wonder how it look`s today...

Black and white photo

These pictures are from Helnæs in Denmark.

Lyskrydder fra naturkilden

Noget inspirert av Lars Hertervig er denne blitt i disse dager. Splitter nytt lyskrydder bilde anno 2012. Vurderer sterkt å holde utstilling neste år i Oslo. Søknad skal sendes. Krysser fingre.

Please! Pay attention when I take your photograph.

Hidden treasure´s

A few more "Hidden treasure´s". Well I´ve done with all my dias/positive films, in this scanning prosess. Maybe there is something amongst my negatives 135 film to. I have done a lot of photoseries these days. There is more to come. Really in the thinking box these days. Where is my expressions... I have found some themes that seems to be cool enough. Coming up.

Pictures from Norway

Some pictures from me. Postcards from Norway. These photos are from the west side inland of Norway. You know, the Fjords and that stuff.

Røros

Some pictures from Røros in Norway. I took this picture years ago, but until now I haven´t looked at them. You can ask me why, and I really don´t know. They are awesome! Technic: Crossprossessing from film. Then scanned and adjusted in Photoshop. Røros is a cold place in winter. It´s an inland small city, not far away from the border of Sweden. It´s a charming city, and tourists favourits. But you can see for yourself here.
I do like the "coldness" in my picture. It was really cold that day, and I think you can feel that on this pictures.

Hidden treasure´s

More hidden treasure´s. Well what is this? The past days I have going through my negatives and dias films. The idea behind "Hidden Treasure" was to find something that I have not seen before. Or notice at my pictures. Well, and how did that go? Not so good actually. I thought I would find much more. The result is not a large number of pictures. "Hidden treasures" was ment to be a photoserie, that could be something new and creative. What I did find is a lot of nature picture, both colored and black&whites. I think my best and biggest series is here. So I do a little of thinking, before I go on with the scanner.

Hidden treasure´s

More from today´s work...

Hidden treasure´s

Hey; Who care´s about scratches... Me not. Time to do something new. More art. I will tell you later about what I´m doing. I´m just started up. More to come sooooooon!

Scanner process

I have 14 days now, to go through my negative/dias archives. I really would like to do a new thing. Be creative somehow. So the next 14 days I do so. This is one picture from todays work. I have many pictures that is never used for any purposes. Time to look for the "Hidden treaure´s" amongst my photograph. More to come. This is a taste.

5 years anniversary today!

It´s 5 years today, since I started this blog. Hey; Celebration time. (You can see the ”Napoleonskake” on my jubilee picture!)
So what´s up then…
Several things going on, but not so much for the blog these days.
A lot about music. Several mixes, and also stuff that I made.
I haven´t been taking many photographs the last year. But it will come.

So what´s going on then?

I have made some goals to do this year:
First of all I´m going to make a fanzine, a small book, with text, performances, pictures and so on. My deadline for this is this summer. I will put a lot of energy in this. And new pictues for shure. But I will also write some poems and different kind of text. Many ideas, and looking forward to spring.
I will also make 4 songs in the ambient genre, that will be on a CD in this book. I hope I can get it printed and distributed early fall.
The working title is in Norwegian: ”Kjør på” (Do it)

My music:
Well, I do use a lot of time on this. Bought me a Kaos kaossilator, and testing it out. It not so many years since I started making music, and I think it´s getting somewhere now.

A really big project this spring is the compilation Nes!O with artist from my homeplace here at Nesodden. 18 contributors! All electronica. I just got 10 000,- NOK from Nesodden kommune to do this project! I´m so thankful of that. Thank you, thank you!
This money goes for a newspaper, presenting all the artist and more. A big job, and a great job. Really can do everything that I like on this. Talking to people. Take photos. And finally do the design to the newspaper.

This 2 projects is gonna take most of my time.
I´m also maybe into making a new photo exhibition. At ”Fotomessen” last week, there was some good input on this… More to come.

The next 14 days I will do a lot of scannings of my nature pictures during my photographic years. (From negatives and positive films) Some of them I shure will put here on my blog.
My bad news lately is that I fall on the ice. My shoulder almost broke, but its better now. The worst is that I can´t hear on my right ear! But the doctors said I have to wait for some weeks, and it will be good again. This set´s me a out a little though. But allright. I do other stuff than music, meanwhile.

But today is celebration time. 5 years of blogging is really something that I´m proud of. There are over 300 artikles and blogpost to find inside here. Have fun. And thank you for following me. I enjoy this, and I say to myself all the time: More blogposts!

Dj set mix: Bloomix 5 Chill kind of techno

This is a cool one. A Dj mix set with chill techno ?! Yes. You can either listen to it or dance to it. It´s not so hard as No 4. But it´s deep, nu-disco, sort of.. Enjoy. Always use a lot of time to find music. I think there`s must be work into making this Dj set, before it can be good. Well: I use a lot of time to find the right songs, that fit together in a mix. It´s not about the same BPM. It´s about music I like. And how to present the songs. Enjoy.

Bloomix No 5 by Tom Ståle Engebretsen on Mixcloud

Dj set mix: Bloomix 4 Techno Time!!! Dance party

Time for Techno Trance Progressive House, Disco! This is awesome. It´s all about music these days. I´ve even made a quiet compilation with jazz music. Coming up soon. Really all styles these days. This one`s for the electronica fans. Almost like a good old fashion rave party. But its new music in this mix. Push "play" on the button belove, and you`re on!

Bloomix No 4 by Tom Ståle Engebretsen on Mixcloud

Dj mix set : NEW FUNK

This was a Dj CD ment to be a gift to my friends before christmas. But it took awhile before I could finish up the cover. So instead I made a dj set, and put it on mixcloud. You can listen to it here. (Press the play button) Partytime!

New Funk by Tom Ståle Engebretsen on Mixcloud

It´s so much music these days. All kind of styles. Listening to everything. And making own music. I´m not shure if this really is healthy... But I can´t stop.
Playlist.