A year ago I began looking for musicians to form a jazz band to record a debut album. ✨💿

The release date was set to 5/5/2025 🌸

Nothing went quite as expected and just a month before release, I wanted to quit!

But somehow, we pulled it off in time! 😵‍💫

Footage from the release concert:

After failing another music theory test in university, I asked my professor how he knew every rule in the book yet never composed anything himself?

He replied,

Music comes first, theory follows. I can only recreate what already exists. But you can write new music that unlocks new theory!

In Swedish schools we have a gender equality policy. During music history our teacher was required to mention at least one woman for every era. He mentioned Hildegard but speculated more about her interest in psychedelic mushrooms instead of mentioning the fact that she wrote the world's first opera

Working on my debut album and I’m so excited for our release 5th of May! 🌸✨ #newjazz #jazzband #womeninjazz #newalbum #debutalbum #mckanagiants

Hope everyone comes out to see my band OCD/C this weekend. We cover AC/DC and if we miss a note we have to start the whole show over

I need to confess,

Sometimes I work professionally for no pay and even spend my own money in order to deliver something good that might attract other customers that hopefully will pay the bill.

That just never happens,

so can someone please explain to me how to deny unpaid commissions? 🙃

This is my latest poster design with a pop-up twist that reveals a mirrored G clef!

Just wanted to note that I don’t just compose music, I also work with other art forms around the music industry like this 🎨+🎶

#pop-up #posters #classicalmusic #multimedia

This book came in the mail today and I honestly thought it would be a pocketbook. No, no, no - It’s a Big Heavy Bible! 😂

Shout out to the author @ariherstand.bsky.social and @frederikakrier.bsky.social for recommending me this book

The first 60 seconds of my piece Hiding of the Hares 🐇

I wrote this when I was 14 years old and this year it finally got performed by live musicians!

Footage from the rehearsal at the Midwinter festival at Piteå School of Music, Sweden.
Performed by Sinfonia 941

#newmusic #composer #ensemble

Photos from the rehearsal yesterday with my new jazz band McKana Ginats! 🌸
We are now preparing for a studio recording that will be in the end of March. The goal is to release a unit debut album 5/5/2025 💿😎

#newjazz #womeninjazz #womeninmusic #newmusic #jazzband #newband #debutalbum #albumrelease

This is what happens when you compose a medley for a Childrens Music Band 🤣

Three years ago Rollin’ Phones visited my university for a workshop with us composition students. This is a excerpt from my piece “Klacken i backen” and they performed it a prima vista!

This piece also included step dance instructions, but they simply said that their stepping career was over 😂

A little repost from my Facebook page 😂
Remember, I’m a composer! 🙃

#composer #newmusic #womeninmusic

I’m working on a Spotify playlist consisting of instrumental jazz either performed, produced or composed by women. At the moment I have a total of 788 songs but the goal is to reach the limit of 10 000

Please check it out and let me know of any albums I should add!

open.spotify.com/playlist/6t5...

Instead of wearing band T-shirt like pop musicians do. I made myself a Galina Ustvolskaya Blouse a few years ago. Maybe this is how classical composers should design their merch 🤔

The print was designed in Adobe illustrator, Printed through @spoonflower-social.bsky.social and sewn by my self!

My greatest achievement last year was to compose my first piece for orchestra! This is my piece Bohccuid Mársa (March of the reindeer) performed by the Norrlandsopera Symphony Orchestra. Its also the world’s first score using Sami rehearsal letters!

Footage from the rehearsal:

#orchestra #music

Repost from my Instagram:

This is perhaps the worlds first composition in the shape of a slide puzzle! And yes, I made everything myself from composing the music to modelling the 3D print of the puzzle board! The piece will be performed by the pianist Anders Englund.

#3D #piano #contemporarymusic

Hello Bluesky! Let me introduce myself, my name is Basha Öberg and I’m a freelance artist from Sweden working mainly with art in connection with music.

Follow me if you’re interested in colourful art, modern music composition and women’s history!

Photo: Made with Adobe Photoshop & Firefly AI