louie.lou – Ljusår (cassette)

Using the organ as the main instrument combined with field recordings, loop-pedals, synthesizer, and voice Louise Ölund creates diverse soundscapes where darkness and light coexist. The creative process is often about finding the balance between control and chaos, and through that create non-linear soundscapes that move between art music and electroacoustic compositions.

The starting points of these compositions are often thematic and partly revolves around the domesticated human. It approaches the thought of wiping out the boundary between human and animal. But also the perspective: of being an observer of this, an observer of civilization. To be in the borderland, at the edge of the forest.
Furthermore, it revolves around life and death. Not focusing on the beginning or ending of it all, but rather the thought of eternity. To be human, a plant, an animal or matter as a part of this eternity.
With these thoughts as starting points, comes the aspiration for total creative freedom and investigation of what music and sound can be.

About louie.lou
Behind the artist name louie.lou is musician Louise Ölund from the village of Drömme in Ångermanland, Sweden, now living in Umeå.
With a background in punk and folk music, she has spent the past four years focusing on composing music that lies at the intersection of sound art and electroacoustic music (EAM). The free approach within sound art became the gateway, and experimenting with various instruments, both analog and digital, laid the foundation for Louise’s magical soundscapes.
In 2022, she made her solo debut with the cassette Försvinnaren on the cassette label Do You Dream Of Noise?