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Expedition Report: Berlin Atonal

Berlin Atonal is a music festival in a huge abandoned power-plant. The church of contemporary electronic music and visuals. The music at this festival is of course insanely awesome and the sound and visuals are so insanely great and people are super nice and everybody actually shut up and listen when artists perform.…

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New Ugress material

Ugress is my most active artist project, but it’s been a few years since the last major release. New material is coming up now, with the first track already out, Big Trouble In Neural Bubble.

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The Bow Corpse – Concept, method, performance

A two minute video summary from a performance-talk at Klangsamfunnet, about upcoming ochestra work The Bow Corpse, performed by BIT20 Ensemble, 12 musicians and thousands of digital clones in realtime swarm simulators. In this talk I’m introducing the concept and theory behind the piece, big data, social media and privacy. Then I’m…

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Video Report: The Bow Corpse – Orchestra Workshop

Three minute music video report from orchestra workshop for The Bow Corpse. A week ago we did the first play through of the music score for The Bow Corpse, a commissioned work for Norwegian contemporary music ensemble BIT20. This was not a full setup with every performer, but gave us a…

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Notes from Transmediale 2015

Transmediale is a festival for new media art and digital culture, held yearly in Berlin. This year’s theme was “Capture All”, dealing with our upcoming life under predictive data capitalism, gamification, algorithmic control. Your correspondent put on his pixel-safe vest to bring you this report. But first, about books. What…

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Report: Bow Corpse – Swarm Software

The Bow Corpse is a commisioned work for BIT20 Ensemble, with 12 performers, using realtime flocking simulators to create swarms of ghost clones of the musicians. Premiere is June 1st. A short report on the sounds and software currently in development! The video above gives a short introduction to the source…

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Memorable films, books and LPs of 2014

Oh dear it’s almost 15 already. Time for my annual lists of memorable media. Films We’re heading for a future where it is no longer that boot stamping on a human face forever  – it’s those sweet, inviting walls made of cake and confectionary. Who put a cookie house here, shouldn’t there…

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Notes from Ars Electronica 2014

Went to Ars Electronica 2014, heaven for new media art geeks and dystopian digital futurists. Expedition time! A bewitched report! This was my first year at the festival, and what I liked most mostest of most, was being that mouth-gaping, clumsy-stumbling map-reading newbie. Is. This. For. Real? All this, for me? Here,…

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“Portal” – Residency Report, Portugal

Two weeks at O Espaco Do Tempo a convent in Portugal, working on “Portal”. A report! Photos! Video! “Portal” is a contemporary dance performance with live music and sound, premiering at Oktoberdans in Norway, October 20th. I’m doing the music and sound, working with Nuria Guiu Sagarra, we worked together already for La…

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