Helge Krabye

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Helge Krabye (born 1953 in Oslo) is a Norwegian composer, sound designer and video editor, and he has composed music for more than eighty television documentaries (many of these produced by NRK "Brennpunkt"), radio plays, fantasy stories and art projects as well as more than a hundred signature melodies and musical jingles.

Helge Krabye first started to work as a technician 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. 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. He has also contributed (bass, acoustic and electric guitars) to the American ambient artist Kit Watkins on his 2007 CD "SkyZone".

Helge Krabye's music is a blend of ambient, acoustic, electronic and world fusion.

As a sound designer, Helge Krabye was responsible for the Dolby Digital 5.1 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. "Deadline Torp" was the first (on January 13, 2005) Norwegian drama production to be transmitted in true Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound to the public. By using the Dolby E encoding system, NRK (National Television in Norway, where Helge Krabye works) encoded the 5.1 audio mix and recorded it on Digibeta tape, then decoded it and encoded it to Dolby Digital AC3 before transmitting it via satellite.