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Notes from Berlinale 2016

A report from the dangerous, exploding frontlines of cinema, Berlinale 2016. Where your correspondent prefers his quiet strolls in the celluloid post-apocalyptic aftermath. Rather than facing the migration trenches, the climate cannons, the gender guns, the unspeakable wounds of growing up or growing old or growing apart or growing upside down sideways…

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Workshop for “You Look Like You”

Recently spent a frosty weekend in Oslo, working with Israeli choreographer Yaniv Cohen for a workshop of his upcoming work “You Look Like You”, together with geniuses Asher Lev and Andrea Spreafico. We spent a few days at Scenehuset, a beautiful ballroom, with a splendid group of dancers and performers. The work aims to use multiple computers…

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The music for Mission Arctic (Oppdrag Nansen)

A short video about how we did the music for Mission Arctic (Oppdrag Nansen), a NRK documentary series about a group of fantastic kids travelling in the footsteps of epic explorer Fridtjof Nansen. They aim to reach the North Pole, exploring the consequences of climate change in the fragile Arctic regions.…

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Most memorable films, books, music, art of 2015

As always, an annual note on memorable media of the year. Films Lost River, by Ryan Gosling. I saw a Twitter post about the film: “Ryan Gosling confuses ‘making film’ with ‘assembling Tumblr of David Lynch & Mario Bava gifs’. Dumb-foundingly poor”. Uhhh? Tumblr confusion of David Lunch and Mario Bava…? Sounds like…

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Photos of “There Is No Here, Here”

Photos from the first public prototype of There Is No Here, Here, creating music video realities live on stage. Performed at the BEK 15th year anniversary at Landmark, Bergen, December 11th 2015. All photos by Eivind Senneset.

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Undercover at Blocksberg sampling witches

Went undercover at Blocksberg to record witches and the sound of witchcraft. Blocksberg, also known locally as Brocken, is the highest mountain in northern Germany. This is where Walpurgisnight happens, where the witches go clubbing one a year. The mountain is famous for bad weather. During the GDR regime, Blocksberg was on…

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Video report: Body Without Brain, Darmstadt 2015

Two-minute video report of my work on Body Without Brain, a performance with Indonesian choreographer Rianto. We just spent two weeks working at Staatstheater Darmstadt in Hessen, Germany. In this video I explain how I’m using internal body sounds as the source material for all sounds and music, generating realtime digital…

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Start work on Body Without Brain

This week I start my work on upcoming performance Body Without Brain by Indonesian choreographer Rianto. We are currently at Staatstheater Darmstadt in Germany for two weeks now, getting to know the material, researching sounds, and creating prelimenary sonic design and music sketches. At the moment we are working with sounds originating…

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Notes from Berlin Art Week 2015

Berlin Art Week is a huge art festival that takes place all over Berlin, in galleries, museums, fairs, expos, abandoned television complexes, river-side industrial factories, massive garages. Attending art festivals is like… if your brain was a person, this person would eat only pure antioxidants and superfoods aaaaall the time. Spinach…

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Notes from Ars Electronica 2015

Tea-cup clouds, dancing mecha-forests, geo-magnetic raindrops, paleo-apocalyptic VR, widescreen 1:train scope visual performances. In electronic arts, this correspondent does simply expedition into such cyber, very future. Ars Electronica is an annual festival for new digital media in Linz, Austria. It gathers artists, scientists and technologists for a long weekend of serious…

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