Bjarte Ludvigsen, a.k.a. Blue, is a record producer from Bergen, Norway. He started out as a drummer for the Norwegian-Grammy Award

Grammy Award

A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...

 winning band Poor Rich Ones

Poor Rich Ones

Poor Rich Ones was a pop and rock band from Bergen, Norway, composed of lead singer, songwriter and guitarist William Hut, keyboardist Bjørn Bunes, bassist Tor Sørensen, guitarists Eivind Kvamme and Espen Mellingen, and drummer Bjarte Ludvigsen ....

. In 1997, after working as a session musician for several years and as an assistant engineer at the recording studio Sigma recording, he started a recording studio named Tinnitus recording with Christer Hjelmeland. In the beginning they mostly helped up and coming artist develop their potential and recording skills, but later the studio also became popular with more established Norwegian artists.

In 2004, Bjarte Ludvigsen took over the company and is now the single owner of the studio.

In 2007, he produced and engineered William Hut's gold selling album Nightfall, and on this record he also did drums, keyboards and programming.

Artists Bjarte Ludvigsen has been working with include; William Hut, Askil Holm

Askil Holm

Askil Holm is a Norwegian singer and musician from Namsos.In 2006, he was a part of the big success when he played together with Espen Lind, Alejandro Fuentes and Kurt Nilsen. Their record Hallelujah Live sold 260,000 copies in Norway.-References:...

, Corvine, Lorraine

Lorraine (band)

Blackroom formerly known as Lorraine are a 3-piece band from Bergen in Norway consisting of Ole Gunnar Gundersen , Anders Winsents and Paal Myran Haaland . They signed to the major record label RCA Records in 2007 after parting ways with Columbia Records...

, Furia, Ralph Myerz and the Jack Herren Band

Ralph Myerz and the Jack Herren Band

Ralph Myerz and the Jack Herren Band is a Norwegian electronica group.-Career:The band was formed in 1997 when Erlend Sellevold asked for people to play percussion with him during a party in Bergen. Thomas Lønnheim and Tarjei Strøm showed up through a combination of mutual contacts and high-school...

, Röyksopp

Röyksopp

Röyksopp is a Norwegian electronic music duo from Tromsø, formed in 1998. Since their inception, the band's line-up has included Svein Berge and Torbjørn Brundtland....

, Brimstone Solar Radiation Band, Tucos lounge, Ephemera

Ephemera (band)

Ephemera are a Norwegian pop trio consisting of Christine Sandtorv, Inger-Lise Størksen and Jannicke Larsen. Formed in 1994, their first album, Glue, was released in 1996. After several years of touring, studying music, and writing new songs, the second album, Sun, was released in 2000...

, Matias Tellez

Matias Tellez

Matias Tellez is a Norwegian singer songwriter, composer and producer. Matias is one of the many young artists that the press have called the New Bergen Wave...

, Syme and Malsain.

Bjarte Ludvigsen owns Bluenoise Plugins. The company aims to create useful and professional sounding plugins for the studio recoridng business. The first plugin released was MyDrumset (now Drummix) which has over 12 000 users worldwide. The software so far has been free but the company will release their first commercial software in mid 2011. Drummix, which is the full featured version of Mydrumset and Bandecho are some of the promising effects to come out of the company in the future.

Bjarte Ludvigsen has written seversal screenplays and was in 2010 signed to the company Woolf+Lapin for a story named The Divided Story.