Surprise oldskool team trivia! The cover artwork for the Ugress album Black Anorak is made by Kåre Martens, who also did the legendary Loungemeister music video! On the previous album The Wrong Future I worked with Stephan Hövelbrinks, whom also like the Loungemeister video, works with pixel-based art. I really…
I’ve been awarded a one-year scholarship from Komponistenes Vederlagsfond (Composers Renumeration Fund) to create Skugghug (old norse for “to remember shadows”). The work will be based on the sound of extinction, and will through extensive sampling convey the hidden music in all that we loose. The sound of endangered species dying…
Cinema-electronica project Ugress will have a very busy November, with new album, live show in Oslo, and a special birthday celebration. On November 9, the next Ugress album Black Anorak will be released. The music combines old norse folk tones, hard electronica, black metal and symphonic film-music with samples from abandoned…
Friday Oct 26th I am performing “Atrophy In The Key Of Dreaming Books” at Insomnia Festival, Tromsø, and in addition also holding a workshop in creating musical works from field-recorded samples. The full festival programme and workshop details has not been published yet but workshop is scheduled for Oct 24th…
September 16 I’m performing a new live score to the silent classic La Passion De Jeanne D’Arc at art-house cinema Cinemateket USF, Bergen. Tickets available, here is the Facebook event. The Passion Of Joan Of Arc (1928) is considered a landmark of cinema, especially for its stylistic visual production, Dreyer’s…
Quirky book tour: Early June I’m doing a mini-tour of western Norway with Atrophy In The Key Of Dreaming Books, a book symphony made from the sound of knowledge. I’m doing a book bath in a huge swimming pool, a very cozy hygge version on an ancient Norwegian farm museum,…
Lost in the static of virtual realities. New Ugress music video for “The Little Cloud That Wouldn’t And The Rainbow Who Couldn’t”, from the latest The Wrong Future album. A black angel roams an time-lapsed Tokyo, glitching in and out of realities. The video is created and performed live on stage…
Music of a world without us. withoutusness is a filmatic music performance combining the sounds of post-apocalyptic landscapes with old norse folk tones, contemporary black metal and gritty electronica. The 45 minute long performance takes place in blackboxes, abandonded buildings, old theatres, clubs and cellars, and creates an eerie and…
What is the sound of knowledge? What music is hidden in libraries? On Wednesday April 25th I’m performing a live concert version of Atrophy In The Key Of Dreaming Books at Deichman Hovedbiblioteket in Oslo. The concert introduces a fascinating universe of microscopic sounds, textures, playful rhythms and swarms of…
The Wrong Future (Extended Edition) by Ugress. Breaking up with the future through dystopian EDM. The Wrong Future is the 7th album from Ugress, available for direct download or stream the exclusive extended edition directly from us through Bandcamp or listen to the regular release in Spotify, Soundcloud, Apple Music, Youtube, Amazon Prime, Google Play and all other services. There Is…
The future is falling apart and Ugress delivers an EDM-dystopian score to accompany it. The first single “There Is No Here, Here” from the next album “The Wrong Future” is out now, in Spotify, Soundcloud, Apple Music, Youtube, Play, Prime. Featuring The Internet, a huge crowd-sourced choir with thousands of voices,…
On the next Ugress album “The Wrong Future”, the Internet will be one of the featured artists. I am asking fans, listeners and followers on social media to participate by recording a simple phrase, through a simple process on the artist website. After just a few days, I’ve already received…
How do Artificial Intelligences (AI) develop emotions? When is their heartbreak real enough? “I and the AI” is a musical performance using realtime virtual reality and AI, exploring the emotional challenges of developing, co-existing and breaking up with machines. The work will be realised as a 45 minute performance, and…
A musical performance by Gisle Martens Meyer based on the sound of knowledge – books, paper, words, shelves, libraries. The concert uncovers a hidden universe of fantastic microscopic sounds, mysterious textures, quirky rhythms and lively swarms of dancing letters – gently haunted by a gentle digital ghost – does it want…
For the month of september 2017 I have a residency at Circolo Scandinavo in Rome, Italy. As part of the residency, there will be an artist presentation and I will create a new work, tentatively titled Librum Canticum (the singing library). I’m researching and developing the sound of wisdom; what…