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This page is curently under construction.
It was started in 1996, but won't be finished in a long time.
It was last updated 5/2 2004.

Hello! Maybe I ought to tell you a little about myself...
My name is Martin Kahnberg and I'm a 26 year-old Heavy Metalist from Falkenberg on the Swedish westcoast. To find more about my musical interests check in my musicpage and also my link page. I've tried to make them show what type of music I like, and also some parts of my other interests.
I have been studying in Karlstad to become a teacher in Maths and Chemistry, but I found out that I didn't want to work as one. I'm now studying Mathmatics and computerscience in Gothenburg, and after 5 years of studying I hope to be a great great programmer (probably not so great, but I think I'll like the work). The first two years was mostly mathmatics, but the 3rd year the fun began, and will probably continue throughout the 4th and 5th year as well.
This first year I also studied German a top of all the other subjects. This means I study one and a half year instead of the normal one year. (It's rather complicated to simplify.)
The second and third year, I've (and will) been taking courses in Astronomy as well, also on top of the Maths and Computer science. This is not just for fun, but mostly because I'd like to work somewhere near astronomers sometime in the future (as a programmer, though...).
A more detailed view of my education this far can now be found here as well...

My hobies are: Heavy Metal, Fantasy, Astronomy and Volleyball. If you don't think it's a good idea to combine heavy metal and fantasy, then you haven't listened to Manowar or Blind Guardian. These two groups really combine those things. I also like playing role-playing-games (RPGs), but at the moment I don't have anybode but myself to play with (i.e. I'll have to play the games available on the computers, for example Eye of the Beholder, Dungeon master and Might & Magic). I've recently found two more friends here in Gothenburg with whom I'll start playing with when we get the time. I'll also put out a link to a great RPG society in Falkenberg as soon as I get the address.(their site has moved and been reworked...)
If you want to know more about the volleyballteam I played in when I was still living in Falkenberg, please check out the official FVBK homepage. This page is in swedish, but I think some visitors know that language to.

I'm also about to include a page where I write about books and what I think of them. This work is far from completed (it probably never will be), but here's the link to see what I've done...The review part of it is almost up to date, and I'll put out more as soon as I get more to write about...
At the moment there are quite a few books on this part, but there will always be enough space to add some more...

The computer I most of all like working with is an Amiga, but I'm sorry to say that I don't use it very much anymore. I don't get over any good things that I can use on it anymore, so I mostly have to work on my bloody PC, partly because the programs will have to be written on a PC. For those of you who are still interested in Amiga, check out the Amiga.info site to get up to date.

Apart from being a normal student I'm also frequently singing in different choirs. In -1994 I started singing in a youth choir in Falkenberg called Camerata Vocale, and over the years I've had lots of fun with that choir. This year (written -98) we've been touring Sweden and Denmark and also participated at a youth choir festival in the Netherlands as the only scandinavian choir. When we were there we were invited to two other festivals in the Check republic and in Slovakia, and at the moment it seems like we're going to the festival in Slovakia this summer. That will most certainly be a lot of fun... (never got there, due to too few sopranos, and too little cash)
In -97 I joined two choirs in Karlstad, and although I now live 250 km away I still get invitations to participate in their concerts. I did so a weekend (shortly before X-mas -98) as a matter of fact.
This week (written -98) I'll start practicing with a choir here in Gothenburg called Guldhedskyrkans kammarkör, and that gives me one and a half weeks practice before my first concert with them. After that I have two weeks 'till the next concert, and then one and a half week until the next concert in Falkenberg with the youth choir. I just wonder how I'll get the time to study...
The concerts at christmas went well, and also the concert we had at Easter. At the moment we're looking forward to our next concert, Johann Sebastian Bach's mass in A mayor, which we're going to perform on the 29th of May this year. We'll do it in Oskar Fredriks Kyrka here in Gothenburg at 17:00, and everyone who wish to hear us may come (only 50 Swedish Crowns). (written -99)

The concert went quite well for all of us, but we had hoped to have a little greater audience. I guess there were about 100 persons listening to us, but since I don't sell all tickets, I'm not sure about the real number. I hope the chior will put out a home page as soon as possible, since I now know for sure that we don't have any.
A web site for the Choir in Gothenburg is in progress (here's what's been done this far), but I doubt it will be here very soon. But at least I could tell that we'll be singing 3 more concerts before X-mas, and all those only than 8 days apart, so I guess I know what I'll have to do by then. Especially since I'll have two exams in that week as well. Well, wish me luck! (written -99)

Those of you interested in new CDs with Choir music ought to check the Camerata Vocale home page, where the new CD ought to be available soon...

To all choir singers throughout the Nordic countries: Every 3rd year there's a great choir festival called Nordklang in one of the Nordic countries, and if you've never visited it, you'd better do it the next time (which is 2004 in Finland, at the moment). It'll probably be one of the hardest weeks in your life, but without doubt one of the funniest as well. There's singing from early morning until after midnight throughout the week, and you usually learn lots of great choir stuff you'd never have heard about otherwise. There are usually 600-1100 singers divided into smaller groups from your music taste. In the smaller groups you'll learn something thematic (it could be everything from opera to latinamerican to christian to folk to rock), and in the mornings and evenings you'll learn a few wisely chosen songs from each of the nordic countries. Many of these are sung throughout the nights in the pubs festival after festival...


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If you're interested in hearing some songs (midi-format), some of what I've written are available at the listener.
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