Sinfonietta piece
I was invited to contribute to a project with the Trondheim Sinfonietta, mainly with a composition workshop for schoolchildren at Rissa Skole in Sør-Trøndelag, Norway, to which I prepared a piece that was performed both as a part of the…
Instrument interface and control
I knew early that I needed a very intuitive way of controlling this complex instrument I was developing, in order to achieve any meaningful performance results. This is a common issue when designing digital musical instruments (DMI’s), and dependent on…
A search for the non-specific situation
This project deals with the musical content of speech, especially the relationship between spontaneous conversations and improvised music. The focus on real life conversations rather than live readings and performances meant that I had to use recordings of such conversations…
Speech Music Symposium
With help from nyMusikk Trondheim and Norwegian University of Technology and Science (NTNU), I organized a symposium on the subject of speech and music. The event, which took place December 9 – 10, 2016 at Trondheim Kunstmuseum Gråmølna, featured performances…
Performance of solo composition
This is the first performance of a semi-improvised solo composition I made using a selectin of the ideas I have developed through improvisation earlier. Also first time with full 16 channel stage setup, organized as 12 acoustic transducer instruments hanging…
Developing a repertoire
During my first few attempts at live performances with this project I quickly experienced a few things: unlike improvising in a familiar musical setting on a traditional musical instrument, the combination of building and learning a new digital instrument and developing…
Corpus approach and Machine learning
When starting out my investigation of musicality of speech I set out analyzing, extracting and abstracting all kinds of musical structures from speech recordings. Nevertheless I thought I should keep the time aspect of speech intact, feeling that it is…
Rehearsing improvisation
By rehearsing improvisation I am exploring new sonic and structural possibilities as well as formal ideas, thereby gradually building a repertoar – a vocabulary if you will – for improvising with this material and setup. Some clips to illustrate different…
Summer Academy of Artistic Research (SAAR)
I took part in the Summer Academy for Artistic Research (SAAR) held in Stockholm this year. Inspiring to meet artists from other fields and discuss and work with each others project. Work formats included the use of staged experiments,…
Essay on Artistic Research
This is an essay trying to reflect around the phenomenon of “artistic research”, its foundations, functions and justifications. As my project is carried out within the Norwegian Artistic Research Programme, I felt it was interesting to look at how this…
Interface design
System and interface design The methods for interfacing and controlling my software became really important when I first had developed a stable minimum of functionality and started using it for improvisation. It was then clear that it needed a very clear layout with few…
NIME workshop
Last week I attended a workshop on Practiced Based Research at the NIME onference held at Goldsmiths in London, bringing together different researchers working with music and technology as research and discussing different challenges and views on doing research through…