Norwegian Studio for Electronic Music

NSEM (Hal Clark in the middle), 1975. Source.

Norsk Studio for Elektronisk Musikk (NSEM) was founded in 1975 by Hal Clark and Arne Nordheim at the Henie-Onstad Art Centre in Høvikodden, while it was run together with the Music Academy, Norwegian Broadcasting Bureau (NRK), and Composers Union. As a result of controversy it moved to the Academy in 1978, and soon dissolved.

Gallery

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  Buchla synthesizer. [5]

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  Finn Mortensen watching Hal Clark programming the Buchla Music Box, NSEM, November 1976. [8]

Publications

Interview with Hal Clark about the Electronic Studio and music scene in Norway of the mid-1970s, sound recording, KPFA, Feb 1975, 52 min.

• Hal Clark, The Norwegian Studio for Electronic Music: A Comprehensive Instruction Guide, Høvikodden: Norsk Studio for Elektronisk Musikk, 48 pp.
• Harold D. Clark, "The Norwegian Studio for Electronic Music", AES 50, 1 Mar 1975, L-42. [9] [10]
• Hal Clark, "Norges første lydstudio", in Høvikodden live 1968-2007: Henie Onstad Kunstsenter som tverrkunstnerisk arena, ed. Caroline M. Ugelstad, Høvikodden: Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, 2007. Excerpt. (Norwegian)/(English)

See also

• Norway#Electroacoustic and experimental music

Links

• Norwegian Studio for Electronic Music 1975–1978, exhibition, Henie-Onstad Art Centre, 21 May-1 Jun 2025.
• Flickr gallery by Henie-Onstad Art Centre.