Track 5 on the album Time Incantations, previously released under my real name, Flemming Christian Hansen.
Instrument used: Sequential Prophet XL

Slowly Dancing With The Glitch

Track 1 on the album Bindi, previously released under my real name Flemming Christian Hansen.
The album consists of 6 tracks, each half an hour long and extremely minimalistic.
Instrument used: Sequential Prophet XL

Mtvaris Gundi (Moon Choir)

Track 5 on the album Bindi, previously released under my real name Flemming Christian Hansen.
The album consists of 6 tracks, each half an hour long and extremely minimalistic.
Instrument used: Sequential Prophet XL

Gwylio, Aros (Watching, Waiting)

Track 6 on the album BIndi, previously released under my real name Flemming Christian Hansen.
The album consists of 6 tracks, each half an hour long and extremely minimalistic.
Instrument used: Sequential Prophet XL

Dvali af Trjám (A Dormancy of Trees)

Ninth track from the album “Drones from the Evenfall of Mankind” - a dystopic album, musically depicting the last years, days or minutes of mankind on earth. Most tracks have a destructive edge to them - noisy soundscapes, voices or instruments sounding broken in different ways and an overall mood of despair, facing the consequences of our abuse of our lives on this planet. However, there are also moments of quiet remembrance and mourning of what has been lost.
Coverart by Threin Ottossen.

Broken Requiem

A quite lengthy improv, made on a snowy day at home.
Instruments used: 
Wing Pinger from Meng Qi
DFAM from Moog
- and a bit of reverb from my presonus mixer.
Also available as a video on Youtube - but it only shows some semifat white guy trying to groove with the machines, so..... ;)

Music on a Snowy Day

A long single in cooperation with awesome sound artist Hanne Raffnsøe.
Instruments:
Haken continuumini
Suzuki Wakaru
Boss RC-300
Cooper FX Generation Loss

Jonshel (with Hanne Raffnsøe)

Solnat (with Hanne Raffnsøe)

One of many sketches, processing ideas for two concerts later in January 2023: Dunkelfødt 1 and 2 (Darkborn)
Copenhagen Jan. 26 at 8 PM and Nakskov Jan. 29 at 5 PM

Darkborn sketch (Dunkelfødt)

Third single with sound artist Hanne Raffnsøe. This one is a pretty long improvised spoken word flow in Danish, Swedish, German and Arabic - all held sublimely together by Hanne. I deliver a background of noisy DFAM-percussionish sounds and musical remarks on the Haken Continuumini. Releases Feb. 1, 2023 on all streaming services.

Gør jeg? (with Hanne Raffnsøe)

Track 1 on the album Poetic.
Instruments used:
Suzuki Wakaru - Soma Cosmos - Sequential prophet XL

Rite of New Beginnings

Track 2 on the album Poetic.
Based on the poem "Mark my woods" by myself:

Strange blue 
woman dancing
Strange blue 
woman dancing

Blue woman,
feel my forest,
mark my woods

Instruments used:
Moog DFAM - recorded sounds - Haken Continuumini - Boss RC-300

Strange Blue Woman Dancing

Track 3 on the album Poetic.
Based on a poem by Simon Grotrian "Svaner set gennem tårer"/"Swans seen through tears":

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Instruments used:
Roland VT-3, Haken Continuumini, Moog DFAM, Meng Qi Wing Pinger, Boss RC-300, Cooper FX Generation Loss

Swans

Track 4 on the album Poetic.
Based on the poem "Nocturne" by Eino Leino, translated by Rupert Moreton:

Hark! My ears are catching corncrake’s clicking,
Silver moonlight shines on cobhead corn;
Summer evening’s blessing me, enriching,
Valley’s wreaths of smoky slash and burn.
Neither joying I, nor grieve I, mournful;
But for forest’s darkness am I yearnful,
Rose-gilt clouds the day’s protracted ending,
Windy sleeping hill o’er all extending,
Fragrant twinflower, shortening, lingering shade;
These the things from which my heart-song’s made.

Lady June-July, for you I’m singing,
Great the silence of my ardent heart,
Merry music make, for faith is mounting,
Verdant wreath of oak eternal start.
Foolish errands now I’ll make no longer,
Fortune blessèd hands will grasp the stronger;
Rippled pool of circles now decreasing;
Time has ceased and weathervane is sleeping;
Stretches road at twilit end of day,
Bound for home unknown, I take its way.

Instruments used:
Mauritian Valiha - a bowl of water - Soma Cosmos - Sequential Prophet XL - Haken Continuumini

Great the Silence of my Ardent Heart

Track 5 on the album Poetic.
Based on the poem "Med lukkede øjne"/"With eyes closed" by Gustaf Munch-Petersen (translated by myself):

it is as if
no current can drown me
no sorrow suffocate me
completely -

it is as if
love comes to me
across all seas
because a soft string is always vibrating
in me -

Instruments used:
Roland VT-3 - Sequential Prophet XL - Soma Cosmos - Haken Continuumini

It Is As If

Track 6 on the album Poetic.
Based on a poem from Gertrude Steins “Stanzas in meditation”, more precisely part V, Stanza LXV:

They did not know
That it would be so
That there would be a moon
And the moon would be so
Eclipsed

Instruments used:
Moog DFAM - Meng Qi Wing Pinger - Haken Continuumini - Soma Cosmos - Cooper FX Generation Loss

So Eclipsed

Track 7 on the album Poetic.
Instruments used:
Suzuki Wakaru - Sequential Prophet XL - Soma Cosmos

Rite of New Endings

An afternoon with the DFAM and the Wing Pinger - wish I had a cat....
Synth loop added is Yamaha Reface CS.

Chill with a Tiger

The day before our concert at Hosek contemporary in Berlin Pausa a Pausa and I had our first rehearsal. The result was pretty good in our own opinion, so here it is :)

Rehearsal with Pausa a Pausa April 11

My solo set from a concert together with Pausa a Pausa at Madame Claude, Berlin July 31, 2023. I brought only my Soma Terra - one of the first concerts with this awesome instrument <3
Listen to all 4 of us in this video: https://youtu.be/0Qsb38L2OY8?si=wpKRyHKMHiXfggQt

LIVE at madame Claude, Berlin (playing Soma Terra)

My third concert in Berlin in 2023 - October 17 at Hosek Contemporary. This time a solo set, playing around with Yamaha Reface CP, Drumkid from Matt Bradshaw and Cosmos from Soma. 
I was invited to play the first set and kind of warm up for Ste van Holm & friends - thanks for inviting me 😊 Their sound engineer, Jens, recorded the music.

LIVE at Hosek Contemporary, Berlin

How does January sound? 
Instruments: 
Haken Continuumini
Soma Terra
2 x Soma Cosmos

January Waves

My 2024 project will be to integrate my voice in my electronic universe. Listen to the first three sketches here. All made with Soma Terra, 2 Soma Cosmos and a Roland VT-3

Voice sketches

This album consists of 13 tracks, crossfaded in ways you cannot determine for a normal streaming service, and therefore uploaded as one track. On Spotify etc. the tracks are available without crossfading (unless you automatize it in the settings for the app)
If you would like to access the individual tracks you can use these time codes:
0.00 Cormorant
7.16 Goodbye
9.13 Grains
13.20 Cage
15.35 Contraption
19.16 Orbit
24.23 Subway
27.58 Ballad
33.20 Downtown
37.30 Skaters
40.57 Sevensevenfour
46.57 Barren 1
49.55 Barren 2
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Instruments used in the music
1 Cormorant:
Yamaha Reface CP, Matt Bradshaw Drum Kid, Soma Cosmos
2 Goodbye:
Sequential Prophet XL, Matt Bradshaw Drum Kid
3 Grains:
Haken Continuumini, Matt Bradshaw Drum Kid, Koma Field Kit
4 Cage:
Sequential Prophet XL, Matt Bradshaw Drum Kid
5 Contraption:
Haken Continuumini, Boss RC-300, Soma Cosmos
6 Orbit:
Haken Continuumini, Boss RC-300, Soma Cosmos
7 Subway:
Sequential Prophet XL, Matt Bradshaw Drum Kid
8 Ballad:
Haken Continuumini, Boss RC-300, Soma Cosmos
9 Downtown
Koma Field Kit, Soma Ether, Matt Bradshaw Drum Kid, Sony Walkman
10 Skaters:
Sequential Prophet XL, Matt Bradshaw Drum Kid
11 Sevensevenfour:
Soma Terra, Boss RC-300, Haken Continuumini
12 Barren 1:
Sequential Prophet XL, Matt Bradshaw Drum Kid
13 Barren 2:
Sequential Prophet XL, Matt Bradshaw Drum Kid

Music from a Tiny House

A kind of appetizer for my new, microhouse-ish album "Music from a Tiny House", release April 19, 2024 at 19.00 CET on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/HdHzbknBZRY

Birch

An experiment with my voice, run through a voice transformer (Roland VT-3) and a looper (Soma Cosmos). Synth sounds come from Yamaha reface CS. The short text is from a folk song, but the actual melody is not present in any way.
Mixing and mastering: Lars Koldkjær

Lay the Bent to the Bonnie Broom

Please comment and let me know, if you would consider this to be microhouse music :)
Instruments:
Moog DFAM, Soma Cosmos, Yamaha Reface YC, Matt Bradshaw Drum Kid

Microhouse?

On my YouTube channel, I have a playlist called 'Another Day in the SoundOkapi Studio.' This recording is a spin-off from that, but it's considerably longer, as the videos are only 3-7 minutes long. Here, I improvise for nearly an hour on the Soma Terra and the Soma Cosmos. Enjoy! :)
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The playlist on YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRf2bSLgdsq-6zw9RX7In6Mt-N7nS6pqc&si=v1myiVnj7hZkjbc_
My homepage: http://soundokapi.dk

Another day in the SoundOkapi-studio - special edition

A short gloomy improv made on the Yamaha Reface CP run through the Mod Core from NUX.
You can watch the original video of my live recording here: https://youtu.be/YIuxkyG0Tzg?si=_P9DYzgo9dD076C8
Photo by Stefano Pollio on Unsplash.com
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My homepage: http://soundokapi.dk

Okapi Shadow

If you like this track, you should check out my album Music from a Tiny House 😊
Instruments:
Soma Terra through Soma Cosmos
Matt Bradshaw DrumKid through Dreadbox Kinematic
Website: http://soundokapi.dk

Hedgehog in the Rain

SoundOkapi is a Danish sound artist known for his distinct blend of minimal music, ambient, micro house, noise, and experimental genres. 
Synths, augmented by guitar pedals and loopers, are central to his eclectic sound, which also includes his own vocals. Collaborating with other sound artists like Hanne Raffnsøe and Berlin-based trio Pausa a Pausa, SoundOkapi has performed in Danish churches, festivals, and Berlin venues. 
Trained originally as a classical organist, he transitioned to experimental electronic music, exploring improvisation and innovative techniques, marking a new chapter in his musical journey.
Read everything on http://soundokapi.dk

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