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Mikael Karlsson

About Me

Swedish composer happily transplanted to Harlem. Check out my homepage at mikaelk.com.Tired of the strict boundaries of academia while also a little frustrated by the occasional sloppiness of the downtown performer idea. I guess I'm looking for outrageous brilliance. Where is it? Is it you? Let me know, ok?I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/18/2006
Band Website: www.mikaelk.com
Band Members: Just me.... Mikael. And all the performers, of course. In the current clips Lykke Li and Jason Wingate perform Until We Bleed, Gang of Two (Chern Hwei Fung, violin. Hui Ping Lee, viola) play Nilon, and Claire Chase plays a flute / alto flute quintet with herself in Five Four. There are also two Battlefield Bad Company soundtrack clips in there. I wrote those with Tobias Wagner.
Welcome to Mikaelk.com
Influences: Karlheinz Stockhausen, Hermeto Pascoal, Morton Feldman, Jacob Druckman, John Cage, Yoko Ono, Arnold Schoenberg, Ruth Crawford Seeger, JS Bach, Wendy Carlos, Yma Sumac, Diamanda Galás, Pierre Boulez, György Ligeti, Robert Ashley, Iannis Xenakis, Henri Dutilleux, Giacinto Scelsi, George Crumb, Gavin Bryars, Fetish Park, Fela Kuti, Edgar Varèse, Jon Brion, Anton Webern, Alfred Schnittke, Alban Berg, Aphex Twin, Maria Callas, Witold Lutoslawski, Nina Simone, Tori Takemitsu, Tom Waits, Somei Satoh, Amy Winehouse, Deerhoof, Katie Eastburn, Robert Schumann, Franz Schubert, Patti Smith, Maurice Ravel, Luciano Berio...

Sounds Like:
Record Label: Please MusicWorks
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Interview by Jim Gladstone

Some gab gab gab with my good friend Jim!http://www.passportmagazine.com/departments/MikaelKarlss on.php
Posted by on Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:22:00 GMT

News March 2009

Newsies:Oh the recession.Fuck it. Let's never speak of it again. In fact, write "recession" on a piece of paper, fold it and give it to a stranger on the street. There! Now it's no longer yours to wor...
Posted by on Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:15:00 GMT

I Was Wrong (havoc version) by Mikael Karlsson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWeLlnxccds When things aren't ok.
Posted by on Mon, 09 Mar 2009 23:02:00 GMT

Aliens Are Attacking. Cue the Strings.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/arts/music/28sch...Classic ally trained musicians are finding new outlets for their talents in the booming video game industry. Funnnn
Posted by on Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:28:00 GMT

News February 2009

Hey gringitos and banditas,Some new things:LIFE CLASSLife Class is up and running at La Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris, as part of Francois Rousseau's exhibition Atélier. At this point ...
Posted by on Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:35:00 GMT

Privacy - on amazon.com and iTunes

It's finally here:amazon:http://www.amazon.com/Privacy/dp/B001HL8DA0/ref= sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1226224944&sr=8-1iTunes:http://i tunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=29669 1765&s=...
Posted by on Sun, 09 Nov 2008 02:11:00 GMT

Privacy is finished

So yeah, my next cd is finished. This is post the other stuff (by necessity), and I'm so so so proud of having the performers that I do on it. We're talking Claire Chase, Josh Rubin, Jason Wingate, Co...
Posted by on Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:09:00 GMT

Until We Bleed

So I just posted the all-cello version of Until We Bleed - that Lykke Li song that I wrote with Lykke and Kleerup last spring. The original version will be released May 21, on EMI. It's track 2 on Kle...
Posted by on Fri, 16 May 2008 20:42:00 GMT

New pics

I did a very fun photo shoot with Niklas Alexandersson in Stockholm (the main pic is from that shoot) on May 2. Makeup and styling is courtesy of the lovely Tommie and Isa Maxe. Bizarro-trash-glam. Mo...
Posted by on Mon, 07 May 2007 19:09:00 GMT

Online interview

I was recently interviewed by Jim Gladstone on the online entertainment site UsedWigs. Check it out at http://www.usedwigs.com/interview_karlsson.html
Posted by on Fri, 18 Aug 2006 08:13:00 GMT