There was a certain amount of ambient noise soundscaping going on with contact mics and effects boxes, but with my two keyboards and Bjarne's guitar there was a certain amount of melody too. The noisiest thing I used was a dictaphone recording of me reading from What the Ostrich Sees in the Sand.

One audience member, who was interested in us doing a soundtrack for his animated film, said the music we created was "exactly a middle ground between 'industrial sounds' and theme music more akin to Lalo Schifrin (enter the dragon)". A young guy asked me if I'd ever played Final Fantasy, which turned out not to be a piece by Chopin, but a computer game. An old painter dude exclaimed to us, "You play like I paint! Dangerous, but beautiful!"

Links:
North:I Was A Chinese Free Improviser
Li Tie Qiao's myspace
Last FM: Li Tie Qiao
Kai Mikalsen
Interview with Kai
Kai's project Kobi
Kai and Bjarne Larsen are members of Origami Arktika
Bjarne is a member of Salvatore
Bjarne is a member of Lasso
My biography and fiction writing, including What the Ostrich Sees in the Sand
I am a member of Dacianos
Dacianos' myspace
I am a former member of Melek Taus