Biography

Homeless Balloon is the music project of Norwegian composer Helge Krabye. His background is in sound design, and he has composed original music for more than eighty television documentaries, radio plays, fantasy stories and multimedia projects. He is known for combining acoustic instruments with experimental, electronic sounds. His music is inspired by both world fusion, electronica, acoustic, classical and jazz. Helge Krabye learned to play violin at the age of six, and he picked up the guitar as a teenager. In his early thirties he started experimenting with computers, MIDI and synthesizers, and his background in classical music has made his compositions suitable for moving pictures.