Helge Krabye (born 1953 in Oslo) is a Norwegian composer, sound designer and video editor, and he has composed music for eighty television documentaries (many of these produced by NRK "Brennpunkt"), radio plays, fantasy stories and multimedia projects as well as more than a hundred signature melodies and musical jingles. Year 1953 ( MCMLIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. (called Christiania from 1624 to 1878 and Kristiania from 1878 to 1924 is the Capital and largest city of Norway. The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation ( Norwegian: Norsk rikskringkasting AS) which is usually known as the NRK, is the Norwegian
Helge Krabye first started to work as a sound engineer in the Radio Drama department in NRK in 1986, and director Kyrre Haugen Bakke invited him to compose music for the fantasy story "The Magician's Nephew", one of the books in the "Narnia Chronicles" by C. S. Lewis. Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963 Helge Krabye later wrote his own story with music and sound effects for children, "Herr C og bestevennen som ble borte". Helge also composed music to several of radio journalist Arnfinn Christensen's fantasy stories like "Den gåtefulle øya" og "Orden og Kaos".
In 2001 Helge Krabye composed original music and was the sound designer for the five part documentary series "Det gåtefulle Kina" (Mysterious China). The series has been shown in National TV in countries like Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Australia.
In 2004, Helge Krabye composed original music for nature documentarist and photographer Arne Nævra and his nine part television series "Villdyr og Villmark" ("Global Safari"), an adventure and wildlife series shot in Russia (Wrangel island and Kamchatka), Rwanda, India, Borneo and Alaska. Parts of this documentaries will be released on DVD in 2006.
Helge Krabye has contributed to other artist's projects as well. He played acoustic guitar for Amethystium (Øystein Ramfjord) on his CD project "Evermind" (2004), an album that climbed high in the ambient and new age charts around the world. Acoustic music refers to music that solely or primarily uses instruments which produce sound through entirely acoustic means as opposed to Electronic means Amethystium is an ambient- New age electronic musical project whose sole member is Norwegian producer/composer/multi-instrumentalist Øystein Ramfjord He has also contributed (bass, acoustic and electric guitars) to the American ambient artist Kit Watkins on his 2007 CD "SkyZone". Kit Watkins (born 1953 is an American progressive-ambient-jazz recording artist based in Brattleboro, Vermont.
Helge Krabye's music is a blend of ambient, acoustic, electronic and world fusion. Ambient music is a Musical genre in which sound is more important than notes Electronic music is music that employs Electronic musical instruments and Electronic Music technology in its production World fusion music is a Fusion genre of World music, blending musical traditions from around the world and possibly mixing them with modern music such as jazz or
As a sound designer, Helge Krabye was responsible for the Dolby Digital 5. Dolby Digital is the marketing name for a series of lossy audio compression technologies developed by Dolby 1 surround mix of the television mini series "Deadline Torp" in 2005. The drama series was directed by Nils Gaup (known for his Academy Awards nominated movie "Ofelas" ("Pathfinder" or "Veiviseren" in Norwegian) in 1987. Nils Gaup (born April 12, 1955) is a Sámi Film director from Norway. "The Oscar" redirects here for the film see The Oscar (film. Pathfinder (original title in Sami: Ofelaš and in Norwegian: Veiviseren) is a 1987 Norwegian film directed "Deadline Torp" was the first (on January 13, 2005) Norwegian drama production to be transmitted in true Dolby Digital 5. Dolby Digital is the marketing name for a series of lossy audio compression technologies developed by Dolby 1 surround sound to the public. By using the Dolby E encoding system, NRK (National Television in Norway, where Helge Krabye works) encoded the 5. Dolby E is an Audio encoding and decoding Technology that allows up to 8 channels of audio to be compressed into a Digital The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation ( Norwegian: Norsk rikskringkasting AS) which is usually known as the NRK, is the Norwegian 1 audio mix and recorded it on Digibeta tape, then decoded it and encoded it to Dolby Digital AC3 before transmitting it via satellite. Betacam is a family of half-inch professional Videotape products developed by Sony from 1982 onwards Dolby Digital is the marketing name for a series of lossy audio compression technologies developed by Dolby Dolby Digital is the marketing name for a series of lossy audio compression technologies developed by Dolby
In August 2007, Helge Krabye set up the independent record label "24 Chillout Music" and released two audio CD's with his music project "Homeless Balloon". "Travel in Silence" contains 18 tracks of ambient, chill out, world fusion and electronica music. "Mysterious China" has 27 tracks of world fusion and chilled beats were traditional,Chinese instruments have been mixed with acoustic guitar and electronic effects. The music on "Mysterious China" are based on the original music Helge Krabye composed for the five part television series "Det Gåtefulle Kina".
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