Kjetil Husebø – Oscillations of Memory

Album cover for 'Oscillations of Memory' by Kjetil Husebø, featuring abstract dark textures with blurred lights and patterns.

My new album Oscillations of Memory.

Available now on Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, etc
Link: https://orcd.co/pre_oscillationsofmemory

Bandcamp: https://opticalsubstanceproductions.bandcamp.com/album/oscillations-of-memory

This album opens the Interiors trilogy with dark ambient textures, built from flickering layers, resonant tones, and unstable echoes of memory. It weaves together dark ambient, electroacoustic, and experimental elements to create an immersive journey through fragile atmospheres and ever-shifting sonic landscapes.

The title Oscillations of Memory refers to how memories are never stable, but always in motion. The word oscillations means swings, pendulums, or vibrations — movements back and forth that never settle into a fixed point. Memory works in much the same way: it shifts in form and intensity, vivid and near in one moment, dissolved or distant in the next.

At the same time, the title points toward the musical tools I use. In synthesizers, oscillators are the very core — generating waves and frequencies that form the basis of sound and texture. In Oscillations of Memory, these two perspectives meet: the unstable, living movements of memory, and the electronic oscillators that create the raw material of sound. The music thus becomes an image of both the fragility of memory and the perpetual oscillations of synthesis.

Kjetil Husebø
Synthesizers, samplers, electronics, compositions, mix & production at GrandisStudios, Oslo, 2025. 

Mastering: Helge Sten at Audio Virus Lab, Oslo.

Cover design: Lucas Dietrich, Berlin.

Kjetil Husebø – Piano Transformed – Interspace

My new double album Piano Transformed – Interspace.

Available now on Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, etc. https://orcd.co/pre_pianotransformedinterspace

Available digitally and as a 2CD digipack, complete with an 8-page booklet.

CD can be ordered here:

Bandcamp: https://opticalsubstanceproductions.bandcamp.com/album/piano-transformed-interspace

Platekompaniet: https://www.platekompaniet.no/kjetil-husebo-piano-transformed-interspace-cd

Big Dipper: https://bigdipper.no/optical-substance-productions/osp010/kjetil-husebø-piano-transformed-interspace-2cd

CDON: https://cdon.se/produkt/husebo-kjetil-piano-transformed-interspace-cd-27013d4d6b4e57d9/

Details:

Kjetil Husebø: Steinway Model B Grand Piano, Live Sampling, Electronics. Edits. 

Recorded by Juhani Silvola at Ugla Lyd (Morten Qvenild’s studio), Nesodden, Norway, May 22nd – 24th 2024.

Mixed by Kjetil Husebø at GrandisStudios, Oslo, Norway. 

Mastered by Helge Sten at Audio Virus Lab, Oslo, Norway. 

Design by Lucas Dietrich, Berlin, Germany. 

Produced by Kjetil Husebø. Co-produced by Juhani Silvola.

Portrait photo booklet: Jo Michael de Figueiredo.

Liner notes: Tore Stavlund

Supported by The Norwegian Composers’ fund (Det norske komponistfond). 

Kjetil Husebø – Live at Nasjonal Jazzscene

My first live album! Purchase and listen now!

New solo album – Live at Nasjonal Jazzscene – due for release October 9th 2020.

Kjetil Husebø: Steinway C Grand Piano. Live sampling & Live Electronics.

Recorded at Nasjonal Jazzscene (The National Jazz Scene, Victoria) / 
Tape to Zero festival on April 22, 2016, Oslo. 

Engineer: Johnny Skalleberg.

Mixed by: Kjetil Husebø, Oslo.

Mastered by: Helge Sten, Audio Virus Lab, Oslo.

Cover design: Lucas Dietrich, Berlin.

Photo: Ruben Olsen Lærk.

Cat. no: OSP008.

Format: CD digipack, digital files.

Distribution: Musikkoperatørene (Norway) / Phonofile (digital – worldwide) / Forced Exposure (U.S) / Discovery Records (U.K) / Galileo (Germany).

3 Quarks Daily about Piano Transformed

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Check out this article about Post-Piano:

“While electronics can completely dominate the production of sound, creating performances that no human could possibly manage on their own, some musicians are using technology to augment their playing. Consider Norwegian pianist Kjetil Husebø’s ‘Piano Transformed,’ from the eponymous 2017 album. Husebø plays the piano but its sounds are then fed into electronics that heavily process the source material, creating a sort of diaphanous context that is at once part of and completely independent of the more conventional sounds to which we are accustomed.” Misha Lepetic, 3 Quarks Daily

Read more at 3 Quarks Daily 

JAZZCD.no 8th Edition

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I am proud that the song “Circle” from my album Piano Transformed (2017) has been chosen to be part of the compilation album JAZZCD.no 8th Edition.
Snippets of the Norwegian jazz scene today, produced by Norsk jazzforum in close cooperation with Utenriksdepartementet (Norge) (The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs), Music Norway, and distributed by Norsk jazzforum and through Norwegian embassies and consulate generals all over the world. Available from January 2018.

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Listen to the compilation (Spotify)