MT, aka TSE, sings in English, Norwegian and (he thinks) Urdu, and is furthermore humming, breathing and playing with all kinds of sounds.
The Schopenhauer Experience was founded in 2006. Morten Tønnessen, aka TSE, composed and produced more music in 2007. And then, in 2009, he was back - older than ever.
Latest songs: Gallstone blues (Chaos in the workplace) (completed July 2013), Cecilia (completed December 2012), Semioteque (July 2011), Mist (2011), Tweet Dreams (Are Made of These) (2010), What he said (May 2010), Troll Whisper (completed October 29th, 2009), September Song (instrumental, completed around September 26th), Atmos (completed June 14th, 2009); Oceans Apart (completed May 9th, 2009)... For lyrics, see below.
COVER SONGS
Bookends Theme (SIMON & GARFUNKEL)
The Face of Love (EDDIE VEDDER & NUSRAT FATEH ALI KHAN) !VIDEO!
The Great Event (LEONARD COHEN)
Harrowdown Hill (THOM YORKE)
I didn’t Understand (ELLIOTT SMITH)
I will (No Man’s Land) (RADIOHEAD)
Minute Prologue (LEONARD COHEN)
Skip Divided (THOM YORKE)
Strangest Tribe (PEARL JAM)
Street Spirit (Fade Out) (RADIOHEAD)
ORIGINAL SONGS, WITH LYRICS AND VOICE
Alene (På en Stein i Mørket) AMPLIFY MUSIC - NEWGROUNDS
Atmos !NEW!
Atomic
En Knott i Havet (Grønt Så Langt)
Heartbeat
Herfra til ingensteder
Hey, Thou
Hey, Thou (Tartu Remix)
Oceans Apart !NEW! Independent Artists Company
ORIGINALSONGS, WITH MECHANICAL VOICE (AND LYRICS)
This is God Speaking (The Many Voices of God) – featuring MICROSOFT SAM
Troll Whisper !NEW!
ORIGINAL SONGS, WITH VOICE/BREATH (BUT NO LYRICS)
Heleninha
Naked (Minimalist Junkie)
No Words This Time !NEW!Independent Artists Company
ORIGINAL SONGS, TRULY INSTRUMENTAL (NO VOICE)
Atomic (instrumental)
Let Your Spirit Talk
Noizette
Reminder September song (instrumental)!NEW!
Wille
Semioteque (audio from Umberto Eco's lecture in Tartu May 2009)
Featured voices: Alar Karis (rector at University of Tartu), Morten Tønnessen, Umberto Eco
[...]
MT: And I would like you to say something about what role fiction can be said to play within natural science...
Eco: No... No, I missed ... the real question.
MT: Let me finish. Um…
(MT: And I would like you to say something about what role fiction can be said to play within natural science... )
(Eco: No... No, I missed ... the real question.)
MT: And often in applied science, we start out with imagining something that does not exist – it’s totally mind-dependent; and then we carry it into life. … Isn’t that the work of fiction?
Eco: No! I... Take, for instance the cold fusion. Typical example of a scientific hoax.
Eco: I don’t say that it’s a fiction – it’s a mistake, which is different.
Eco: I say that there is fiction when the author pretends to say the truth, and asks you to pretend that you are believing it.
Eco: If not, it’s a lie. If I tell you there is an elephant outside… and you naively go out to see whether it is there or not, that is not a case of fiction, I am only a *** liar... And you are too naive, hehe.
Eco: Except, you are not Thomas Aquinas! His comrades told him… 'Thomas, there is an ass flying on the skies', and he went out … (to) look. Hehe…
MT: Isn’t that the work of fiction?
COVER SONGS
Bookends Theme (SIMON & GARFUNKEL)
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Time it was, and what a time it was, it was
A time of innocence, a time of confidences
Long ago, it must be, I have a photograph
Preserve your memories, they're all that's left you
The Face of Love (EDDIE VEDDER & NUSRAT FATEH ALI KHAN) !VIDEO!
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Jeena kaisa Pyar bina
Is Duniya Mein Aaye ho to
Ek Duje se pyar karo
Jeena kaisa Pyar bina
Is Duniya Mein Aaye ho to
Ek Duje se pyar karo
Look in the eyes
Of the face of love
Look in her eyes
Oh, there is peace
No nothing dies
Within pure light
Only one hour
Of this pure love
To last a life
Of thirty years
Only one hour
So come and go
Jeena kaisa Pyar bina ...
Look in the eyes ...
The Great Event (LEONARD COHEN)
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It’s going to happen very soon. The great event which will end the horror. Which will end the sorrow. Next tuesday, when the sun goes down, I will play the moonlight sonata backwards. This will reverse the effects of the world’s mad plunge into suffering, for the last 200 million years. What a lovely night that would be. What a sigh of relief, as the senile robins become bright red again, and the retired nightingales, pick up their dusty tails, and assert the majesty of creation!
Harrowdown Hill (THOM YORKE)
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Don't walk the plank like I did
You will be dispensed with
When you've become inconvenient
In the harrowdown hill
Where you went to school
That's where I am
That's where I'm lying down
Did I fall or was I pushed?
Did I fall or was I pushed?
And where's the blood?
And where's the blood?
I'm coming home
I'm coming home
To make it all right
So dry your eyes
We think the same things at the same time
We just cant do anything about it
So don't ask me
Ask the ministry
Don't ask me
Ask the ministry
We think the same things at the same time
There are so many of us
So you can't count
We think the same things at the same time
There are too many of us
So you can't count
Can you see me when I'm running?
Can you see me when I'm running?
Away from them
I can't take their pressure
No one cares if you live or die
They just want me gone
They want me gone
I'm coming home
I'm coming home
To make it all right
So dry your eyes
We think the same things at the same time
We just cant do anything about it
We think the same things at the same time
There are too many of us
So you can't count
It was a slippery slippery slippery slope
It was a slippery slippery slippery slope
I feel me slipping in and out of consciousness
I feel me slipping in and out of consciousness
I didn’t Understand (ELLIOTT SMITH)
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Thought you'd be looking for the next in line to love
Then ignore, put out, and put away
And so you'd soon be leaving me alone like I'm supposed to be
Tonight, tomorrow, and every day
There's nothing here that you'll miss
I can guarantee you this is a cloud of smoke
Trying to occupy space
What a fucking joke
What a fucking joke
I waited for a bus to separate the both of us
And take me off, far away from you
'Cos my feelings never change a bit
I always feel like shit
I don't know why, I guess that I just do
You once talked to me about love
And you painted pictures of a never never land
And I could have gone to that place
But I didn't understand
I didn't understand
I didn't understand
I will (No Man’s Land) (RADIOHEAD)
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I will
Lay me down
In a bunker
Underground
I won't let this happen to my children
Meet the real world coming out of your shell
With white elephants
Sitting ducks
I will
Rise up
Little babies eyes eyes eyes eyes
Little babies eyes eyes eyes eyes
Little babies eyes eyes eyes eyes
Little babies eyes eyes eyes
Minute Prologue (LEONARD COHEN)
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I've been listening
to all the dissention.
I've been listening
to all the pain.
And I feel that no matter
what I do for you,
it's going to come back again.
But I think that I can heal it,
but I think that I can heal it,
I'm a fool, but I think I can heal it
with this song.
Skip Divided (THOM YORKE)
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I'm in a skip divided malfunction
I flap around and dive bomb
Frantically around your light
Enveloped in a sad distraction
I got your voice repeating endlessly
Could you guide me in?
Could you smother me?
I swoop around your head
But I never hit
I'm blinded by your daylight
Electric veins pass through me
I thought there was this big connection
I only got my name I only got the situation
I just need a number and location
Without appropriate papers or permissions
I'm known to bite in tight situations
And I head into your french windows
I thought there was a big connection
I only got my name I only got my situation
I just need my number and location
And my mum keeps telling me
Hey hey hey hey hey hey
The devil may
Hey hey hey hey hey hey
You are a fool [x2]
For sticking round [x2]
Yeah you are a fool [x2]
For sticking round [x2]
I tried every trick in the book
I tried to look and knew
Every trick in the book
But how come I look?
No more common dress or elliptical caress
Don't look into your eyes cause I'm desperately in love
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