Music for a ghosted generation. Ghoststorm is the latest Ugress release, download direct from our Bandcamp or listen in Spotify, Tidal, Apple Music, Soundcloud, Amazon, Youtube and all other services. Like the replicants in Blade Runner, the tracks on Ghoststorm are nostalgic for a past that never existed. Their emotions…
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My main project Ugress is on a Live Cinema tour for summer 2019: June 19th at Landmark,Bergen Kunsthall, NO (tickets, event). June 21st at Tyven in Trondheim, NO (tickets, event). June 22nd at Felix Pub & Scene in Lillehammer, NO (tickets, event). August 29th at Z-Bar Cinema, Berlin, DE (event) August 30th at Bruket, Oslo,…
Thursday March 21st I’m performing a special version of Atrophy in Ulvik, Norway. Olav H Hauge was one of Norways most important and beloved poets of the 20th Century. He lived his whole life in a small western fjord town called Ulvik, working as a gardener in his own apple…
On Tuesday Feb 12th at 19:00 I’m mashing up an epic DJ set of legendary hits and unforgettable themes from films, cult TV and glorious video games at the afterparty for the awards at Nordic Film Music Days 2019, during the Berlinale, Berlin. This is the third year I’m invited…
Surprise oldskool team trivia! The cover artwork for the Ugress album Black Anorak is made by Kåre Martens, who also did the legendary Loungemeister music video! On the previous album The Wrong Future I worked with Stephan Hövelbrinks, whom also like the Loungemeister video, works with pixel-based art. I really…
I’ve been awarded a one-year scholarship from Komponistenes Vederlagsfond (Composers Renumeration Fund) to create Skugghug (old norse for “to remember shadows”). The work will be based on the sound of extinction, and will through extensive sampling convey the hidden music in all that we loose. The sound of endangered species dying…
Cinema-electronica project Ugress will have a very busy November, with new album, live show in Oslo, and a special birthday celebration. On November 9, the next Ugress album Black Anorak will be released. The music combines old norse folk tones, hard electronica, black metal and symphonic film-music with samples from abandoned…
Friday Oct 26th I am performing “Atrophy In The Key Of Dreaming Books” at Insomnia Festival, Tromsø, and in addition also holding a workshop in creating musical works from field-recorded samples. The full festival programme and workshop details has not been published yet but workshop is scheduled for Oct 24th…
September 16 I’m performing a new live score to the silent classic La Passion De Jeanne D’Arc at art-house cinema Cinemateket USF, Bergen. Tickets available, here is the Facebook event. The Passion Of Joan Of Arc (1928) is considered a landmark of cinema, especially for its stylistic visual production, Dreyer’s…
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,…