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prugelknaben

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About Me

i am nils christian fossdal. when i make music with machines i call myself prugelknaben.
i like to work with voice, instruments and other organic sounds. some would call it electroacoustic music, some call it musique concrete. i have made music for several theatre productions, and also for contemporary dance. i am working closely with the contemporary dance company dybwikdans - www.dybwikdans.no
i have released some music around, try to find something here:
the one for the road variations
www.le-son666.com
the i wish for you a beautiful life variations
www.stroem.se
i have a track on this compilation
www.skyapnea.com/postawakeningsound
and on the disastrato
'salle de jour remixes' (hc055)
www.hippocamp.net
i have done a few colabs; like "silent night" with fredo viola
"heart of gold" with race4prize
"suddern freejazz" with mbazzy
"for the frogs" with bluermutt
i have played around a little bit, alone and with other people, like at blå in oslo, numusic festival in stavanger, galapagos art space in new york, escatelier in rome.
i have done electronics for other people too, like randi tytingvåg www.tytingvaag.no and athana www.athana.no.
and i made music for a short film. kontoret for ingenting by ketil karlsen.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/2/2005
Band Website: prugelknaben.com
Band Members: its just me. phew.
Influences: Aakon Keetreh Abstract Audio Systems Accurst Adiemus Aes Dana Ahasverus Air Alien Ambient Galaxy Alio Die Amythestium Aphex Twin Ashtorath Atom Heart Aural Planet Autechre Autumn Sara Ayers Wally Badarou Biosphere Alexandre Bischof Richard Bone Michael Brook Harold Budd Ray Buttigieg Coil Chillage People Cluster Balm DAC Crowell Holger Czukay being Dave Jonsen Deathprod De Facto Stuart Dempster Deuter diatonis DJ Spooky Kurt Doles Dracodacikus dreamSTATE Dub Trees Catherine Duc Dungeons of Darkness Dyr 6 Eluvium Empathi Entropica Enigma Brian Eno Farfield Florianz, Matthew Tim Floyd Forrest Fang FTSG Future Sound of London / Amorphous Androgynous Robert Fripp Don Falcone Gaop Gas Peter Gabriel Global Communication Jeff Greinke general fuzz Beaumont Hannant Jon Hassell David Helpling Higher Intelligence Agency Tetsu Inoue Karl Jenkins JuJu Eyeballs JunkDuster Junkielover Karl Sanders kneeL Luke Koyle KLF Land Daniel Lanois Bill Laswell Lustmord Lebzul LVXUS Maeror Tri Magic Sound Fabric Main Makyo Mariae Nascenti Matotumba Chris Meloche Moby AKA Voodoo Child Morgenstern A Murder of Angels Mystical Sun Pete Namlook Jan Nemecek Neptune Towers Loren Nerell Noise Button Northaunt Not Your Average Hippy Nuspirit Helsinki Numina Omicron One Umbrella The Orb Orbital Oto tussinspace.com O Yuki Conjugate Oambientone Palancar Parasme Plastikman Puff Dragon Raison D'être Radio Chong Ching Radio Massacre International Radiohead Redshift Rothko David Reeves Robert Rich Steve Roach Tom Recchion Erik Satie Klaus Schulze Jonn Serrie Adham Shaikh Shinjuku Thief Shite Shpongle Shulman Sephiroth Sophia Solar Quest Spacetime Continuum / Jonah Sharp Spiritual E Wolfram Spyra / Der Spyra Stars of the Lid Saul Stokes Tim Story Stratus Stray Theories Sun Electric David Sylvian The Synthetic Dream Foundation System 6 Terre Thaemlitz The Fireman TimeShard Amon Tobin Troum True Colour Of Blood TUU The Devil In The Design Twilight Ritual Undiscovered Moons Of Saturn Vangelis Vidna Obmana Violet Vision Edgard Varèse Vuotare Waveform Transmission (Rod Modell and Chris Troy, not Jeff Mills) Wavestar (with John Dyson) Windy & Carl Jah Wobble Woob Susumu Yokota Zoviet France Zilent Zpott (ha ha i am stealing other peoples lists)
Sounds Like: it sounds like how fragile we all are.
Record Label: none
Type of Label: None

My Blog

compilation

hey, i will have a track on a compilation from the numusic festival in stavanger, norway. its a darn good festival and i am very proud to be on this album. check the festival pages: www.numusic.no
Posted by prugelknaben on Thu, 10 Aug 2006 05:31:00 PST

new release

i have a track featured on teh great compilation www.skyapnea.com/postawakeningsound
Posted by prugelknaben on Wed, 15 Feb 2006 01:56:00 PST