About Rune
Nov 14 2006
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In the summer 2002 I finished my three years at Aarhus Business College. I didn't choose the business college because I'm particularly fond of business or because I think I'm going to use it very much. I simply found the business college to be a better choice for me than the other alternatives available.
That same summer I started studying Computer Science and Multimedia at the University of Aarhus. Computer science because I like computers, programming, and to analyze and solve problems. Multimedia because I like to be creative and work with graphics, design, interactivity and art. However, after having studied it for one year (before I ever got to the multimedia part), I concluded that Computer Science was not a study well suited for me after all, since the emphasis is on theoritical math and lots of formalism from a technical point of view, with very little focus on the users of the software, and with practically no room for creativity, which is very important to me.
So in the summer 2003 I started studying Information Studies instead (still at the University of Aarhus), which is also focused on information technology, but from a more humane angle with emphasis on the interaction between man and machine. "The departmental research in Information Studies includes historical, sociological, communicative, and design-oriented approaches to the study of the development and application of information technology on the level of individuals, organisations and society." It includes some programming and system development too.
After I completed the two years of Information Studies I took the the third and remaining year of my Bachelor Degree under a Supplementary Programme in Multimedia, which allowed me to finally study what I intended to from the beginning. I chose to also get a Master's Degree in Multimedia with specialisation in Game Programming, which was one of four multimedia specialisations my university offered. In the summer of 2009 I finally finished my Master's Thesis about Semi-Procedural Animation for Character Locomotion.
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Dec 4 2004
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I like slightly experimental music that mixes several genres, but really, I have a broad taste in music. Rock and pop, electronic, downtempo and trip-hop, house, r&b and hip-hop. Below are listed some of my favorite artists in random order. Oh, it just happens to be alphabetical order. What a statistical curiosity. To get information about the trip-hop genre, which I like in particular, I recommend having a look at www.triphop-music.com.
"Triphop is a blend of electronica and hip-hop, urban and ethereal, street and ambience. It is music that is thought provoking, sexy, sensual, and deep."
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Air
Very interesting electronic music. Their album "10000 hertz legend" is experimental and unusual with a weird, atmospheric mood. No two tracks sound alike. My personal favorite is the almost surreal track "Don't be Light".
@ amazon.com @ triphop-music.com
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Alanis Morissette
Alanis really is a bit special. In one unique song after the other, some catchy and some intriguing, she expresses complex emotions and thoughts through highly intelligent lyrics.
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Björk
Crackling, militaristic, jungle-inspired breakbeats, ethereal instrumentation and Björks quite special vocal makes this music a hypnotic journey through an odd netherworld, which you will either love or hate.
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Cafe del Mar
"A tribute to the sunset." Breathtaking and emotionally smart chill-out vibes. The Cafe del Mar series provides warm, mood-inspiring ambient tracks; like taking a vacation where the air is clear and your mind is free to think of everything, yet nothing...
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Chemical Brothers
Providing experimental electronic music ranging from furious club beats to mellow and hypnotic vibes, these guys are experts at creating amazing and interesting soundscapes.
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Coldplay
Coldplay's music is mellow and emotional with a variety of different instruments and songs crafted skilfully and beautifully. Many songs start slow but build up later - the music is tinted with depression and yet uplifting in its own way.
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Faithless
Deft practitioners of all areas of modern music, their specialties are texture, seductive atmosphere, and haunting melodrama combining unnerving soundscapes, dance-floor mentality and chilling monologues.
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Gorillaz
A genre-hopping collection of tunes that draw on the many influences. A somewhat innovative blend of hip-hop beats and punk, ambient dub, dark electronica and atmospheric sounds. They call their own music "zombie hip-hip" and "lo-fi thriller".
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Lamb
Trip-hop music where drum and bass courts with jazz. Stuttering beats, that are sometimes untempered and sometimes more subdued, are mixed with lyrics of love and loss sung with amazingly emotive, seductive female vocals.
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Linkin Park
Being a rap metal band, they express anger, alienation and angst through their music with rapid-fire rhymes, screaming, and turntable scratching, but the music also features acoustic piano and sensitive singing, and some intelligent introspective lyrics.
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Madonna
Madonna's music swings from techno and dance style to acoustic, to pop, to smooth and calming musical tracks. I don't like Madonna's early music, but her albums "Ray of Light" and "Music" are both very good in my opinion.
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Mandalay
Though not very well known, this former group made some profound beautiful music, lead by the shivering vocals the female singer. They have a unique blend of pop, trip-hop with a little dab hip-hop and the musical and vocal variations are endless.
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Massive Attack
This legend of trip-hop retains the power to keep you transfixed with their dark shades of dub and songs that stretch with patient grace in a dark, almost claustrophobic atmosphere, with superb attention to detail.
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Moby
The album "Play" is like a sampler of the range of musical styles possible with electronic music. Some tracks are blended with punk, some are excellent ambient melodies, while yet others explore the mixing of old spirituals with techno.
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Morcheeba
Laid back and emotional music, mellow and seductive, spanning trip-hop, funk, blues, jazz and reggae, with soul inspired lyrics contemplating love, life and death, sung by the female vocalist's rich voice and filled with loopy rhythms.
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Norah Jones
Very relaxed, smooth and mellow songs in a warm kind of way. A mix of jazz, soul, pop and blues and a bit of country. She have a brilliant voice that sounds very crisp but still breathy, and at the same time innocencent.
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Portishead
Their mellow, deep music is a wonderful mix of blusey guitars, highly dextrous scratching and amazing female vocals, blend into an equally dark and hopeful soundscape.
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Röyksopp
Catchy semi ambient pop songs and rhythms. A wild blend of house, synthpop and ambient. Some tracks have vocals and they fit well, and every song has ingeniously designed little synth melodies.
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The Prodigy
The Prodigy's sound is memorable, energetic, and dynamic, characterized by intense and sometimes violent techno with industrial overtones and a rock and roll attitude, mixed with equal parts dance and rap music.
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About Rune
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Hi, I'm Rune, I'm from '83 and I live in the city of Copenhagen in Denmark, which is a tiny country in northern Europe.
