Presentation performance
I brought my project to the “Music Technology Days” conference held this year at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo, and as I did not have a separate presentation or talk but only a performance slot, I decided to…
Sinfonietta piece
I was invited to contribute to a project with the Trondheim Sinfonietta, mainly with a composition workshop for schoolchildren at Rissa Skole in Sør-Trøndelag, Norway, to which I prepared a piece that was performed both as a part of the…
Duo Improvisation
As part of a series of research concerts organized by the Music Department at my university (NTNU), I made a presentation and duo performance together with vocalist and fellow electronic artist Tone Åse. The event took place at Dokkhuset on…
Speech Music Symposium
With help from nyMusikk Trondheim and Norwegian University of Technology and Science (NTNU), I organized a symposium on the subject of speech and music. The event, which took place December 9 – 10, 2016 at Trondheim Kunstmuseum Gråmølna, featured performances…
Harpefoss Poetry Festival
I was very happy to be invited to Harpefoss poetry festival to perform in their musical program, this year curated by composer and performer Maja Ratkje. As a gesture to the occasion I recorded some of the poetry readings at…
Performance of solo composition
This is the first performance of a semi-improvised solo composition I made using a selectin of the ideas I have developed through improvisation earlier. Also first time with full 16 channel stage setup, organized as 12 acoustic transducer instruments hanging…
DAFx showcase set
This is a short demo improv set at a showcase concert at Rockheim, Trondheim, during the DAFx conference in December 2015. I was just trying to show some different musical possibilities and did not compose an overall form, hence the…
Rehearsing improvisation
By rehearsing improvisation I am exploring new sonic and structural possibilities as well as formal ideas, thereby gradually building a repertoar – a vocabulary if you will – for improvising with this material and setup. Some clips to illustrate different…
Test performance
First real test of live performance with audience. I wanted to see if I could maintain control and perform a coherent piece of music with my current setup in a live setting. I am still working on ways to approach improvisation…
Ensemble
After having spent some time exploring one instrument at a time I felt ready to combine different sound sources and explore a wider sonic palette in the role as improvising arranger and orchestrator. In the first piece, a duo of…
Organ chatter
With a full MIDI-enabled pipe organ at my disposal, I wanted to try how it would sound when controlled by my speech-to-music software. Since the organ is like an orchestra all by itself with all the manuals, pedals and registers,…
Talking Drums
Before setting up an “orchestra” consisting of several different instruments, I wanted to explore some possibilities one instrument at a time. This series of improvised studies explore the sounds produced by mounting exciter speakers onto drums and cymbals, playing back…
Piano conversations
After recording some improvisations using my current system involving the mechanical midi piano, I felt the urge to engage in a more direct musical dialogue with the material I was creating. I made these short piano duos with the mechanical…
First sounds
This is my very first go at improvising with a small “orchestra of speech”, consisting of a mechanical piano, my “acoustic drum machine” setup and some software synthesis played back through a transducer attached to the piano sound board. The…