Biography Hans Fjellestad

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1 biography

1.1 life
1.2 career

1.2.1 music career







biography
early life

hans jorgen fjellestad born on may 02, 1968. studied music composition , improvisation @ university of california, san diego in san diego, california.


career

a classically trained pianist, has composed film, video, theater, dance , has toured music , film work throughout u.s., canada, europe, australia, japan, taiwan, new zealand, mexico, , brazil.


in 2002, directed first documentary film, frontier life. explores tijuana, mexico, focus on local underground electronic music scene. 2 years later, in 2004, directed moog, feature-length documentary music synthesizer pioneer robert moog, premiered @ karlovy vary international film festival. in 2009, writer , producer 2009 music documentary heart drum machine juliette lewis, elijah wood, john frusciante, , jason schwartzman. in 2010, released film depression-era life , art, when world breaks, premiered @ 2010 doc edge festival in new zealand.


in 2012, directed documentary sunset strip, premiered @ sxsw 2012 , broadcast on showtime. hollywood reporter describes entertaining fault, color-packed doc boasts lifetime s worth of glamour , sleaze featuring mickey rourke, johnny depp, ozzy osbourne, keanu reeves, sofia coppola, hugh hefner, sharon stone, courtney love, among others.


he co-founded trummerflora collective, , has worked curator/producer international art initiative, insite 05. artist-in-residence @ steve allen theater in hollywood 2008-2011, curating , hosting monthly live music series resbox.


he directing new documentary offshore radio outfit radio caroline, shooting in london , planned 2014 release.


music career

he has extensive discography both solo artist , in collaboration many musicians in international experimental music scene including muhal richard abrams, george lewis, peter kowald, lé quan ninh, lisle ellis, haco, miya masaoka, money mark, yoshimi p-we, thomas dimuzio, g.e. stinson, damon holzborn (with whom forms duo donkey), tetsu saitoh, david slusser, baiyon, kazuhisa uchihashi, jakob riis, p.o. jørgens, carl bergstrøm-nielsen, mike keneally, nortec collective, among many others. music available on hollywood records, accretions records, circumvention music, brain escape sandwich, barely auditable records, pan handler , vinyl communications.


he records , performs under own name, has sporadically employed alter-ego 33, performances @ roxy in prague , bimbo s 365 club in san francisco. track abominatron on moog original film soundtrack (hollywood records) credited 33. strangely, 33 title of fjellestad s 2003 solo cd (accretions records), making artist s intentions behind moniker unclear.


kobe live house (accretions records) released in february 2006 , prime example of how keyboardist approaches unconventional mix of acoustic , electronic sounds. recorded live on october 17, 2003, @ big apple (a jazz club in chūō-ku, kobe, japan) concert part of club s 14th anniversary special concert series. both sets unedited , appear did night of show in kobe, performed grand piano, nord lead 3 synthesizer , custom software instrument programmed in maxmsp. more recently, music projects in studio , on stage produced entirely on analog electronic instruments (mainly moog) 2007 release.








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