Portal, a dance performance by Nuria Guiu with live music by GMM, premieres October 20th at Oktoberdans. A portal is a doorway – to past, present or future worlds – to different realities – to different versions of ourselves. Portal revolves around the themes in Douglas Rushkoff’s book Present Shock: When Everything Happens…

Performing two live shows at the MarteLIVE Biennale festival this week, in Rome. The performances are part of the Nordic Landscapes programme at the Pelanda Factory, attached to the MACRO Museum of Contemporary Arts. ROMA 2089 is a 30 minute musical work that uses sounds, graphics and video from Roma city…

Rome, 2089. A new sonic universe, a lonely vampire, a pacifist gladiatrix, wild hanniphants. Singing water fountains, metro tunnel choirs, glitchy trams, screaming bikes, lipstick clouds, auto-tuned hairdressers, distant cannons… The everyday sounds of Rome of 2014 becomes a musical expedition into a ficitional future Rome of 2089. A lonely…

I’m staying in Rome, Italy for all of June, through a residency at Circolo Scandinavo. Through the stay I will create a work, the process is documented with daily notes in the blog. Rome was a beautiful, post-apolyptic ruin already centuries ago. Way before it was cool. This is going to be awesome.

Only Connect is a sci-fi music festival in Oslo inspired by the ideas and the universe of the influential British author J.G. Ballard. This year’s festival is dedicated to Jon Bing (1944-2014), author, professor and science fiction enthusiast who got J.G. Ballard translated to Norwegian. Mr Bing was instrumental in creating this years festival but…