When your boss is a Rockstar….
My boss is Morten Huseby and he is a Rockstar.
Bold, artistic, revolutionary, sensational.
He creates, thinks BIG, turns standard formulas into a surprising new twist. He challenges the status quo and sees opportunities everywhere. This is how the whole Wirescan Digital concept came to life - hands on cable knowledge, masters in data science and signal processing and disruptive mind.
His genuine excitement is contagious. It inspires, drives us forward through periods of uncertainties. Trust him to bring a dash of unexpected humour to liven up a meeting. He has drawn together an incredible team of strong individuals to turn Wirescan into a disruptive force with remarkable growth. He thrives on working against the grain.
Where does all this creativity, passion, drive, thinking out-of-the box come from? Our customers and friends say: “This guy has a Rockstar personality”. He does. Except…. he is a true Rockstar. I mean, the genuine “bona fide” one with Fenders, Gibsons, JazzMasters, Stratocasters, concerts, live tours, new releases, Sportify, top 10 lists, albums, vinyl records, studios, producers – the whole package. Wherever you go - New York, London, Melbourne, Copenhagen, Tromsø, Houston, Singapore, Astana, Luxembourg, Ulan Bator, Moscow – you meet his fans. You get the idea - not your “weekend – garage – amateur” thing.
The Rockstar and his Guitar…
I can tell you a lot of stories about Morten. But what tells more about a true Rockstar than his guitar? This is a part of his soul, mind, his whole essence as an artist and a person.
When you come in your own as a musician, find your sound, you want a perfect partner to render it to the world. You need total harmony … you need “your”guitar.
They say that guitars have souls, they are often personified and are given names. They have heads, necks, bodies, waists, don’t they? They age, accumulate life stories and battle scars, they travel from a town to a town, they become one with their owners.
Morten has and plays many guitars but there is one which has definitely become his legacy and the most cherished one. This guitar has an invisible quality of the human care and his passion embedded in all seams and curves. This is the one he created and handcrafted himself, it is a match made in heaven. They have been playing together for more than 11 years, and both improve with age. Like an old married couple, smoothing the rough edges and becoming totally in-sync. He touches the string and it produces his sound.
They have often been on the road touring the country. Jack Stillwater is not one of those bands which play one concert a year in Oslo – they are true artists. Tromsø, Bodø, Lofoten, Bergen, Odda, Kristiansand, Hamar, Drammen, Narvik, Stokmarknes, Sandefjord, Tønsberg....
One night when Morten was about to leave for a concert tour, his little son Knut – 5 at the time – crawled on his lap, hugged him and said he would miss him and he wished to go with him. “If you draw on my guitar you will always be with me – at every concert, in every city and on the road wherever I have my guitar with me”, - Morten said. “ I will look at your drawing and I will always think of you”. And so little Knut did. He draw small sweet spiders with huge eyes and twiggy legs on the shiny surface, spider babies. In the prime corner appeared the big one – the spider Dad - watching over his jolly offsprings.
Sweet spiders babies with huge eyes and twiggy legs
The spider Dad watching over his jolly offsprings
The Rockstar and his legacy.
This is the story of Morten’s main guitar. This is the story of the source of the Rockstar creativity which translates into Wirescan Digital. Gradually but inevitably it is changing the world to a safer happier place. He creates Wirescan Digital with the same passion and unconventional approach as he composes his music and plays his guitars.
PS: If the twiggy legs spiders do not make you smile, sigh happily and get this warm fuzzy feeling in your chest , then (I am truly sorry if so) you are made of stone!