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Geir Jenssen was born in 1964 in Tromsø, Norway, in a small town 500 miles far from Polar Arctic Circle. At the end of 80s, after an adolescence immersed in a glacial silence of his place of birth, his first experiences in musical field see him linked to Bel Canto, a band very near to new age sounds, in which he cooperates with Anneli Drecker and Nils Johansen for the album "White-Out Conditions" . Dropped Bel Canto, Geir Jenssen set up the Bleeps, whose first album "The North Pole by submarine" becomes a multimedia project thanks to Casper Evenson's work, cinematographic director and later Biosphere's videos responsible.
In 1990 Jenssen starts his path as soloist through the project Biosphere, name directly linked to Biosphere 2 Space Station Project, a very big glass dome in Arizona desert where some families have lived for ages in an self-sufficient space. Inspired by this project, Geir Jenssen dedicated himself to the building of a sound universe that contains different emotions and sounds that spread in a renewed relation with the space and the time. Since 1991, "Micro-gravity" and "Patashnik" have been published, the two albums that delineate the celebrated arctic sound of "Biosphere", a mix of sound experimentalism and new dance-floor rhythms. Jenssen creates a kind of music that "could be the ideal soundtrack for a walk at North Pole", as he himself says. Sidereal techno and ambient atmospheres are the ingredients of Biosphere project, that deeply sign the following production: from "Cirque" and "Substrata" to the soundtracks for "Insomnia" and "The man with the movie camera", from the works on other author's compositions : the pioneer of Norwegian electronic music Arne Nordheim (to whom "Nordheim Transformed" is dedicated ) and Claude Debussy, whose recordings of compositions for orchestra on vinyl are the starting point for "Shenzhou" in 2002, up to "Autour de la Lune", inspired by Jules Verne's book "From the Hearth to the Moon", an imaginary trip where we are surrounded by pulsing frequencies and enveloping basses and finally the recent "Dropsonde" (2006).