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 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…
Atrophy In The Key Of Dreaming Book is a realtime music-video work that investigates the sound of wisdom. It creates music from stored knowledge in the form of books, pages, words, shelves, libraries. The microscopic sounds of letters, words, pages and books swarm with gentle quietness through eerily quiet shelves, libraries…
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…
I’m performing segments of “There Is No Here, Here” at the Art App Awards, ZKM, Karlsruhe July 7th, 2017. The Art App Awards honors the best new art created in app format, both taking into consideration artistic and technological merit. The award is hosted by ZKM, Center for Art And…
The Last Ferry (Hardingtokt) is a commissioned musical work using black metal, folk, electronica, performed live aboard a ferry. The ferry acts as the main instrument, as a sound source, as the stage and main character. The work was performed live by Annlaug Børsheim, Stig Lundblad-Sandbakk and Gisle Martens Meyer,…
A live music video reality, questioning our digital realities, live on stage. Concept A musician is performing in a multi-cam green-screen setup, next to a large cinema screen. The person is performing, creating and editing his reality in realtime. As an audience we can always see the green screen, we…
I’m presenting and performing a new version of “There Is No Here, Here” at TechnArte, Bilbao, Spain, on May 11th and 12th 2017. TechnArte is an international conference on the fusion of technology and art, gathering artists and professionals from the world of art, technology and science, who “attend…
May 31st – June 3rd 2017 we will be roaming and raiding the western Norwegian fjords with the vintage ferry M/F Hardingen, performing the comissioned work “Hardingtokt” live in the fjords and in Vågen, Bergen. “Hardingtokt” is a work that uses the ferry itself as instrument, performer, stage and transport. The work incorporates…
The Drowned Lounge is an electro-accoustic live impro-mashup of hyperstretched evergreens, concert hall organ, triphop 30ies jazz beats and microscopic mechanical organ sounds. Performed by Nils Henrik Asheim and Gisle Martens Meyer, at Organ Night, Stavanger Concert Hall, March 24th 2017. The work takes vintage pop music hits of the 20ies…
Organoscopy is an electro-accoustic video- and laser-based sonic exploration of a concert hall organ. Performed by Nils Henrik Asheim, Birk Nygaard, Tijs Ham and Gisle Martens Meyer, at Organ Night, Stavanger Concert Hall, March 24th 2017. The work uses thousands of micro-samples from the concert hall organ to create a…
Together with composer and organist Nils Henrik Asheim and visual artist Birk Nygaard we’re creating a brand new electro-acoustic media-work for the huge, epic organ of Stavanger Concert Hall. The work sets out to investigate both sonically and visually what happens inside an organ – what are the all the invisible mechanics,…
February 24th and 25th 2017 we are creating live music videos at Østre, Bergen, Norway. “There Is No Here, Here” is a realtime multi-cam video performance that brings the challenges of our social media digital existence to hyper-real music video levels. These performances hosted by BIT Teatergarasjen will transition from music video mayhem to post-show…