Projects
A New way to Experience Classical Music
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Through Grieg Music Education and Music Interactive Technology (MusIT), Gisle has produced online and interactive education resources for students all over the world.
This video shows a learning resource for classical music presented by NRK, the official Norwegian Broadcasting. This learning resource was also used by the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, teaching US students about classical music in an interactive way.
International Music Collaboration
​Grieg Music Education produced the online interactive composing tool; Music Delta, allowing kids from different countries to collaborate and compose music together.
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The project here presents a colaboration between students in Brazil and Norway composing music together using Music Delta, presented by TV2 in Norway.
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A New Way to Present Artists
The OIID company was founded by Gisle in 2015, a company that developed a new music technology presenting music in STEM - format on phones and tablets.​​
Gisle and OIID was invited by Esperanza Spalding to stream the creation and recording of her new album EXPOSURE.
Gisle (co-producer), and the OIID team, lead by Robert Reinlund, filmed the 77 hours studio session and streamed it directly on Facebook. More than 4,2 million fans followed this Facebook streaming project.​
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International Prizes
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Esperanza Spalding and OIID won the Jazz FM Award for Best Digital Initiative of the Year for this project.
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Esperanza and Gisle receiving the prize in London.
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International Launch
OIID launching in Mexico with the Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg.
Presenting in the UN General Assembly
The SoundPlay Foundation was founded by Gisle in 2018, working with musicians around the world to collect, preserve and share traditional music.
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May 21st 2021, the director of our SoundPlay Foundation, Mika Shino, was invited to moderate the United Nations General Assembly’s High-level Event on Culture and Sustainable Development.
In conversation with ministers of culture, leaders in the fields of culture, the arts, and creative industries, Mika discussed the work of our foundation, and how our exciting new technology will open up unprecedented avenues of monetization for musicians and artists.
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A great honor for a Norwegian foundation.
