| Heidi Mortenson | |
|---|---|
| Background information | |
| Birth name | Heidi Mortensen |
| Also known as | nosnetrom |
| Born | 19 August 1975 |
| Genres | Soul, Experimental, Electronica |
| Occupations | Composer, Singer, producer |
| Labels | Wired Records |
| Associated acts | The Uncontrollables |
| Website | http://www.nosnetrom.net |
Heidi Mortenson is a Danish electronic composer, singer and producer. Heidi is performing live as a onepieceband building up songs by sampling her voice through efx pedals and singing.
Heidi grew up listening to the metallic sounds of her dad repairing cars and her mother playing the organ. Heidi moved to Barcelona and started to experiment with sound and acoustics.
After playing her first concert Mortenson was selected Resident Artist 2003 at the annual experimental LEM Festival in Barcelona. Hereafter she went on a European tour with visual artist SOLU, with whom she later performed the Opening Act of Transmediale Festival 2004 in Berlin.
That same year Heidi moved to Berlin where she started working on her debut album.
Mortenson's style is not easy to categorize as her songs are unbound to any specific genre. The cassette tape release Circular Tape is made from using a microphone and 7 effect pedals. The sound source being Heidi's voice. The songs are recorded using instant composing style; meaning onto one track without arrangement or preparation.
The Danish music magazine Musiktidsskriftet Geiger selected her album Don't Lonely Me as one of the 100 Best Albums of 2007. The song Hurt Machine from Don't Lonely Me is featured on the popular American / Canadian TV series The L Word in season 6.07.[1]
Mortenson gained attention from her concert at the SPOT Festival 2008 which got good reviews by the press. The music magazine Gaffa credited her 5 stars,[2] Musiktidsskriftet Geiger wrote "overall probably the best concert of this year's SPOT festival and musically absolutely the bravest",[3] the UK Telegraph stated "if Madonna really wants to start pushing popular music into new areas she should forget working with established American production talents like Timbaland and give this mad Dane a call"[4]
In 2010 Heidi took part in Laurie Anderson's remix contest and got an honourable mention + streaming on Laurie's website. [5]
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In the start of her career, Heidi used only her second name Mortenson and (reversed) Nosnetrom to mask her gender.
Mortenson speaks several languages: she is fluent in English, Spanish and Danish, and also speaks some German and mixed Norwegian/Swedish. In a 2007 interview, Mortenson revealed that she has Asperger syndrome, like her father and grandfather.[6]