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Atrophy In The Key Of Dreaming Books

A musical performance by Gisle Martens Meyer based on the sound of knowledge – books, paper, words, shelves, libraries. The concert uncovers a hidden universe of fantastic microscopic sounds, mysterious textures, quirky rhythms and lively swarms of dancing letters – gently haunted by a gentle digital ghost – does it want…

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The Last Ferry

The Last Ferry (Hardingtokt) is a commissioned musical work using black metal, folk, electronica, performed live aboard a ferry. The ferry acts as the main instrument, as a sound source, as the stage and main character. The work was performed live by Annlaug Børsheim, Stig Lundblad-Sandbakk and Gisle Martens Meyer,…

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There Is No Here, Here

A music-video performance, on living our lives through screens. Lost in digital realities  Artist Gisle Martens Meyer (Ugress) performs his songs live, while creating and existing in the music videos at the same time. The musician gets increasingly lost in the endless digital realities he encounters: Reaching out from wall…

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The Drowned Lounge

The Drowned Lounge is an electro-accoustic live impro-mashup of hyperstretched evergreens, concert hall organ, triphop 30ies jazz beats and microscopic mechanical organ sounds. Performed by Nils Henrik Asheim and Gisle Martens Meyer, at Organ Night, Stavanger Concert Hall, March 24th 2017. The work takes vintage pop music hits of the 20ies…

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Organoscopy

Organoscopy is an electro-accoustic video- and laser-based sonic exploration of a concert hall organ. Performed by Nils Henrik Asheim, Birk Nygaard, Tijs Ham and Gisle Martens Meyer, at Organ Night, Stavanger Concert Hall, March 24th 2017. The work uses thousands of micro-samples from the concert hall organ to create a…

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It Came From Beyond Eternal September

The Ugress album It Came From Beyond Eternal September is released Oct 21st 2016. Dramatic bubblegum-cinema. Monstrous tripod basses striding in post-apocalyptic ruins, thunderous beats move tectonic plates, tentacle choirs calling in despair, broken telephones endlessly calling into dead aether, highspeed pod chases, neurotic guitar clones and shuriken stars zooming by in slow motion…

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Femme Fantastique Trilogy

Femme Fantastique is a trilogy of live soundtracks to silent cinema classics of fantastic women. New music is composed and performed live to screenings of the films. Aelita – Queen Of Mars Aelita – Queen Of Mars (1924) is a magic treasure of vintage cinema. Aelita was the first Soviet science-fiction film, and also the first…

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Stjerneføyk

Stjerneføyk (“Flurry of stars”) is a comissioned composition and live performance, premiered at Finse, May 17th 2016. It performs as a post-romantic national-electronica work, based on famous Norwegian classical music and famous cultural stars of the previous century, gathering them in one epic musical battle – set on the ice-planet Hoth of Star Wars. Fridtjof Nansen was a Norwegian arctic explorer and scientist. Sonja…

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wOwls in the mOss

wOwls in the mOss is a music video, interactive media-art installation and realtime performance. The work was exhibited and performed at the “Fylltu okkar glös með þínum veigum” group exhibit in April 2016 at SIM Reykjavik, the Icelandic Organisation of Visual Arts. A dark, lonely figure is endlessly tapping his device…

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Haxan – Witchcraft Through The Ages

Häxan – The Witch (1922) is an episodic docu-horror of witchcraft. It was the most expensive – and most censored – Scandinavian cinema production of it’s time. Directed by Benjamin Christensen, it is loosely based on Malleus Maleficarum, a judicial document from 1486 on the prosecution of witches. The film intellegently – and highly visually – investigates…

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