Born: January 14, 1971 Primary Instrument: Synthesizer
1991 - my first notes on protracker - amiga 1991-1997 experimenting with many genres, made 100 modules. 1997 - hischool / poetry 1998- 2000 wrote poetry 2001-2005 did things i shouldn`t have done 2006-2010 founded harlequins enigma - the band
Me, Myself, and I hi! i`m åge riisnes, owner & founder of the group harlequins enigma. i`m male, 40 years old. i live in bergen, in west norway by the sea. i am single, restless & had periods in my life where music was calling on me for strange reasons. it is sort of a puzzle.
birthday: 14.01.1971
weekday of birth: thursday
birth time: 20:26
zodiac sign: capricorn
chinese starsign: dog
numerolgy number: 8
power animal: blue tit
in the beginning in 1991, i sat down with a new amiga & started experimenting on a program called startracker, i quickly swapped for protracker which was alot better. my first notes came in the x-it tune which was mixed in 2009 on a amiga 1200 where i live now, with a nice result. the amiga scene back in the 90`s was packed with exciting music & since most had or could afford an amiga it was easy to take a step into the music world sampling your 8 bit sound from cd`s or getting some shareware floppy disks.
these 8 bit tunes will become a retro harlequins enigma line & will be eq`ed & enhanced & maybe multi-tracked, & some will even be re-made in studio with acoustic drums etc.. ” this line will be called the harlequins enigma ophidian series.
equipment used during those days was: ensoniq sq1+, ensoniq eps16+, ensoniq vfx, korg wavestation, korg m1, yamaha qy20, roland r-70, kawai k1-ii, kawai k4, roland jv80 & a sample cd
my last tune after starting was jazzy harlequin in 1997, and i felt i had gotten above an intermediate state i recall. i then went to school & got ill later ” many a struggle it was but recovered.
3 years ago harlequins enigma was founded by me, & like 600 tunes was made during that 3 year period.
we now look ahead & seek a record contract
In the beginning in May 2008, Harlequins Enigma had some involvement with Maniacs of Noise, but the co-operation ended shortly after, where Åge Riisnes, Elin Berge, Sara Jensen and a little later on Katie Leung did co-ops and sessions with Klaus Schulze, Jean Michel Jarre, Tangerine Dream, Jan Garbarek, Dave Weckl, Kitaro, Vangelis, Tori Amos and several others.
430 16-bit tracks and 170 8-bit tracks were made in this period from May 2008 until February 2010. Night Lights was then released at Tunecore in August 2010. In the two previous months they released twenty four music videos. The videos “Sun Moon Stars” and “Million Thrills” were taken down due to a mix-up in Katie’s name and an issue with Øistein Eide. sun moon stars have been re-released at a later time. 31.12.2010 dark light is released via
tunecore. 8 singles & 10 albums have been released since new year. albums are: ruby & jade photograph, lyra, stargazer, heartbeat, octagon volume 1. ” the following 3 were best of albums in a series of 3 albums called “the journey of harlequins enigma” ” released via cdbaby.com. & of course octagon volume 2. harlequins enigma are now on jango.com - radio, hoping the world will spot them, & hope their material form octagon volume 2 is being taken seriously.
christian: no direction of belief goes into areas of buddhism, romanticism, technology & the human rights
anti jante, agnostic!
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