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The Lost World – silent film concerts

Kaiju opera film concerts! Premiere in Oslo on April 16th, 2026. The Lost World is a silent sci-fi classic from 1925. Daring adventurers explore a mysterious plateau of pre-historic monsters deep in the Amazon jungle, following a lost expedition. The film is based on Arthur Conan-Doyles best-selling novel, and has astonishingly…

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Ugress – Retrotopia, 2025 album and tour

“To what end do I chase these shadows of the pasts?” My twelfth studio album Retrotopia is now out in a final Director’s Cut version, and the tour is well underway with shows in most Norwegian cities and some European summer festival gigs. Retrotopia investigates the…

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Soundtrack “Lett bris fra nordvest” released

An epic, chillaxed trip of shape-shifting Norwegian music memories; “Lett bris fra nordvest” is the full soundtrack from my commission for Festspillene in Bergen 2023, creating the music for the opening performance “What is the City but the People?”. Listen on Spotify, Youtube, Soundcloud and download from Bandcamp. An endlessly…

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Music for opening work at Festspillene i Bergen

I am creating and performing the music for the opening work of the 2023 Bergen International Festival (Festspillene i Bergen). Who ARE we? A gigantic, yellow catwalk presents the real people of a city, and their intimate histories. This media-heavy large-scale production will incorporate real citizens, live music, video-walls, text…

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Sonotopia – Extinction Symphony at Meta.Morf 2022

On May 21st, I’m premiering my newest work Sonotopia – A Memory of Shadows (Extinction Symphony) at Meta.Morf 2022, the Trondheim International biennale for art and technology. Sonotopia – A Memory of Shadows is an audiovisual real-time live performance and installation. It investigates the atmosphere, sound, and musicality of extinction.…

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My book-symphony at Sharjah International Book Fair 2021

In early November I will perform 6 concerts of my book-symphony Atrophy In The Key Of Dreaming Books at Sharjah International Book Fair, the largest book fair in the Arab world, in the United Arab Emirates. Atrophy – wich is titled “Live Books Symphony” by the producer in the programme…

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New project Sonotopia with 10 hour video and audio of Lost Places

I’m launching a new artist project Sonotopia and the first release with the rather schwungy name “Lost Places Ambiences And Post Apocalyptic Soundscapes” is out today. Peaceful visuals and sounds of ruins with zero humans, released as a 10 hour long Youtube video, and for audio listening in Spotify, Bandcamp, and Soundcloud. You know…

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Livestreaming while all projects on hold

Due to covid-19, all of my current and upcoming projects are on hold and postponed until post-plague. In the meantime, I’m focusing 100% on streaming regularly live with my main project Ugress. Every month I’m creating a brand new songs, live music videos and mad sonic experiments live on  ugress.com,…

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Launching my Patreon page

I’ve launched a Patreon page for my main project Ugress. Patreon is a platform for artists to earn a monthly income by providing regular content directly to their fans. I’ve written a longform blogpost on ugress.com detailing my philosophy behind the Patreon, it can be summed up as follows:…

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Summoning Shadows – The Sound Of Extinction

Skugghûg (old norse, lit. “having shadows in one’s mind”) is an upcoming major musical work by Norwegian media artist Gisle Martens Meyer, based on the sound of extinction. Premiere is currently postponed due to covid, tentative new date is mid/late 2023. The project is a multi-medial cross-platform work for…

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