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…
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…
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…