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…
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…
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.…
My score to silent classic A Trip To The Moon is out now. You can listen to the full album on Spotify, Soundcloud, Bandcamp, Youtube and Apple Music. You can also watch the full film live performance with the music on Youtube. This is now my seventh “live” silent movie…
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…
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…
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,…
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:…
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…
An audiovisual film-concert hommage to renowned Polish composer Krzysztof Komeda, performed live at Polish Filmdays 2019, featuring Dawid Sulej Rudnicki on piano. You can listen to all the songs created for this work on this Soundcloud playlist. Krzysztof Komeda was a Polish film music composer, creating the scores for Roman Polanski’s films Knife…
Elektronica, metal, world, urban, folk and pop music meets classic Norwegian cinema in an epic film-concert by Gisle Martens Meyer. Performed by Ugress, Krakow, 9 grader nord, Nasra Ali Omar and Annlaug Børsheim, the concert redefines classical national romanticism, through majestic landscapes and grand emotions radiating in the theatrical cinema darkness. The…
PREMIERE: What is it to be Norwegian? What is Norwegian music in 2020? A new super-band created by Norwegian composer Gisle Martens Meyer consisting of Ugress, Krakow, 9 grader nord, Nasra Ali Omar and Annlaug Børsheim redefines national romantic classicism by creating and performing a brand new live score…
For Polish Film Days 2019 I’m comissioned to create an audiovisual concert work exploring the music of legendary Polish film composer Krzysztof Komeda. The work will be performed live in Fredrikstad cinema on October 19th, as part of the festival programme. Tickets and detailed programme should be available shortly. Komeda is…
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…
Music for a ghosted generation. 7th album from Ugress. Download direct from 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 spring from artificially…