List of Compositions
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Upcoming, Stage Art, Light Design, Composition, Ensemble, Notated Score, Video score, Open Instrumentation, Concept Developmentnew piece for Arepo ensemble
A full length immersive experience concert piece, consisting of four parts, which will attempt to help the audience reconnect with their senses with the help of an immersive atmosphere created by four colors, four tastes, four textures and four musicians.
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NESLAND (2026)
An experimental film in which the soundtrack is performed using the film as a score. Filmed in Nesland, Lofoten, Norway, the moving image guides the sonic development by the sound of the stones, interpreting the coastal cliffs and tuned wine glasses becoming the movement of the ocean.
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DRAUGEN (2025)
A performance art installation created for reverberant spaces of former herring oil tanks at Melbu in Vesterålen – currently Norsk Fiskeindustrimuseum as part of Sommer Melbu 2025, commisioned by Nordland Akademi for Kunst og Vitenskap.
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EN SKOG AV LYD (2025)
String orchestra version of “En skog av lyd”, a forest of sound, with notated score. Awarded TONO’s EDVARD Prize, contemporary. Inspired by the way in which individual, scattered trees slowly grow into a forest and how the symbiotic network between plant roots and the fungus mycorrhiza enables them to mutually communicate, exchange nutrients, and warn each other of dangers.
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EN SKOG AV LYD (2025)
Strings, Winds, Pitched Instrument, Voice, Recorder, Cello, Video, Violin, Viola, Piano, Open Instrumentation, PercussionAcoustic version with video of “En skog av lyd”, a forest of sound. Awarded TONO’s EDVARD Prize, contemporary. Inspired by the way in which individual, scattered trees slowly grow into a forest and how the symbiotic network between plant roots and the fungus mycorrhiza enables them to mutually communicate, exchange nutrients, and warn each other of dangers.
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STEINER (2024)
If stones could speak a language we could understand, imagine what stories they could tell!
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SOUND CHOREOGRAPHY STUDY NO. 3 (2024)
For minimum of four performers able to play long and short noisy non-pitched sounds, long and short pitched sounds, with and without distortion of the sound.
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FLASKEPOST (2023)
Cello, Violin, Live Electronics, Flute, Clarinet, Piano, Open Instrumentation, Tape, Pitched InstrumentA distress message in a bottle, a scrap of paper, rolled up and set adrift. Exploring the depths of the ocean, and imagining the creatures and other things one can encounter. The piece also reflects on the ocean as a pathway for an enormous amounts of plastic waste that with the Gulf Stream, from all over the world, ends up in Lofoten.
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APOTHEOSIS (2023)
Reflecting on the ever-growing god complex of the human race – an abstract portrait of how the Norse god Odin achieved all-knowing wisdom and status as “the god above all other gods”.
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SOUND CHOREOGRAPHY STUDY NO. 2 (2023)
For minimum of three performers, able to make three tones with a whole step between each, play vibrato or another pitch or timbre change, and to go from clear tone to non-clear tone.
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SOUND CHOREOGRAPHY STUDY NO. 1 (2022)
For minimum of two performers, able to make five different chromatic pitched tones, do single note repetition, and go from the clear tone to non-clear tone.
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GINNUNGAGAP (2022)
In the cosmogenic story of Norse mythology life is created in Ginnungagap, the primordial void, as the cold winds of Niflheim (isaR) met with the hot sparks of Muspelheim (kauna), and life (laguR) was created. Sound exploration of a magical bind rune (combination rune) created based on isaR, kauna, and laguR from the Elder Futhark rune alphabeth.
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RITUAL FOR CHANGING TIMES: SPRING EQUINOX (2022)
A concert performance ritual for times that are changing, and for potentially changing the times. It is my hope, that we – the human race – at some point will turn the course, regain our humility towards our surroundings, and move towards better times.
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STEIN III (2022)
The story of a stone from the mountain pass of Einangen in Lofoten archipelago of Northern Norway, where a young girl was buried like a goddess 2000 years ago. Imagine what the stones around us have experienced, and what tales could they tell?
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STEIN II (2022)
The story of a many-colored quartz from a secret location, from Lofoten archipelago in Northern Norway. Imagine what the stones around us have experienced, and what tales could they tell?
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STEIN I (2022)
The story of a 3.5 billion-year-old gneiss from Reine, almost at the end of Lofoten archipelago in Northern Norway. Imagine what the stones around us have experienced, and what tales could they tell?
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DE NI BØLGENE (2021)
In Norse mythology, the giant power couple Rán and Ægir both personify the sea, and together they have nine daughters who personify the waves. Each daughter’s name reflects poetic terms for waves: Uðr, Dufa, Dröfn, Kolga, Hrönn, Bylgja, Hefring, Himinglæfa and Bloðughadda.
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LIVING LANDSCAPES (2021)
Video, Open Instrumentation, Trumpet, French Horn, Percussion, Horn, Cello, Harp, Sinfonietta, Violin, Trombone, Glockenspiel, Viola, Oboe, Double Bass, Wine Glass, Live Electronics, Sounding Objects, Flute, Pitched Instrument, Clarinet, Multichannel Audio, PianoThe Earth is changing and slowly coming to life in form of nature creatures, camouflaged by their size. Is this happening as a reaction to how are we treating the Earth? Or have these creatures always been there?
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VÅGAKALLEN (2019)
Vågakallen, a troll known from many tales, was sitting in his high chair, almost 1000 meters over the ocean at Henningsvær. A fictive sonic hike to Vågakallen, a 943 meter high mountain in Vågan Municipality in Lofoten, Norway.
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FOR SOLO VIOLIN(IST) (2018)
Explores and challenges our listening expectations towards the violin and the violinist. The violin is such a strong sounding, historic and symbolic object, that when listening to violin the sounds you explore will always be colored by this.
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new piece for Arepo ensemble
A full length immersive experience concert piece, consisting of four parts, which will attempt to help the audience reconnect with their senses with the help of an immersive atmosphere created by four colors, four tastes, four textures and four musicians.
-
NESLAND (2026)
An experimental film in which the soundtrack is performed using the film as a score. Filmed in Nesland, Lofoten, Norway, the moving image guides the sonic development by the sound of the stones, interpreting the coastal cliffs and tuned wine glasses becoming the movement of the ocean.
-
DRAUGEN (2025)
A performance art installation created for reverberant spaces of former herring oil tanks at Melbu in Vesterålen – currently Norsk Fiskeindustrimuseum as part of Sommer Melbu 2025, commisioned by Nordland Akademi for Kunst og Vitenskap.
-
EN SKOG AV LYD (2025)
String orchestra version of “En skog av lyd”, a forest of sound, with notated score. Awarded TONO’s EDVARD Prize, contemporary. Inspired by the way in which individual, scattered trees slowly grow into a forest and how the symbiotic network between plant roots and the fungus mycorrhiza enables them to mutually communicate, exchange nutrients, and warn each other of dangers.
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EN SKOG AV LYD (2025)
Strings, Winds, Pitched Instrument, Voice, Recorder, Cello, Video, Violin, Viola, Piano, Open Instrumentation, PercussionAcoustic version with video of “En skog av lyd”, a forest of sound. Awarded TONO’s EDVARD Prize, contemporary. Inspired by the way in which individual, scattered trees slowly grow into a forest and how the symbiotic network between plant roots and the fungus mycorrhiza enables them to mutually communicate, exchange nutrients, and warn each other of dangers.
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STEINER (2024)
If stones could speak a language we could understand, imagine what stories they could tell!
-
SOUND CHOREOGRAPHY STUDY NO. 3 (2024)
For minimum of four performers able to play long and short noisy non-pitched sounds, long and short pitched sounds, with and without distortion of the sound.
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FLASKEPOST (2023)
Cello, Violin, Live Electronics, Flute, Clarinet, Piano, Open Instrumentation, Tape, Pitched InstrumentA distress message in a bottle, a scrap of paper, rolled up and set adrift. Exploring the depths of the ocean, and imagining the creatures and other things one can encounter. The piece also reflects on the ocean as a pathway for an enormous amounts of plastic waste that with the Gulf Stream, from all over the world, ends up in Lofoten.
-
APOTHEOSIS (2023)
Reflecting on the ever-growing god complex of the human race – an abstract portrait of how the Norse god Odin achieved all-knowing wisdom and status as “the god above all other gods”.
-
SOUND CHOREOGRAPHY STUDY NO. 2 (2023)
For minimum of three performers, able to make three tones with a whole step between each, play vibrato or another pitch or timbre change, and to go from clear tone to non-clear tone.
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SOUND CHOREOGRAPHY STUDY NO. 1 (2022)
For minimum of two performers, able to make five different chromatic pitched tones, do single note repetition, and go from the clear tone to non-clear tone.
-
GINNUNGAGAP (2022)
In the cosmogenic story of Norse mythology life is created in Ginnungagap, the primordial void, as the cold winds of Niflheim (isaR) met with the hot sparks of Muspelheim (kauna), and life (laguR) was created. Sound exploration of a magical bind rune (combination rune) created based on isaR, kauna, and laguR from the Elder Futhark rune alphabeth.
-
RITUAL FOR CHANGING TIMES: SPRING EQUINOX (2022)
A concert performance ritual for times that are changing, and for potentially changing the times. It is my hope, that we – the human race – at some point will turn the course, regain our humility towards our surroundings, and move towards better times.
-
STEIN III (2022)
The story of a stone from the mountain pass of Einangen in Lofoten archipelago of Northern Norway, where a young girl was buried like a goddess 2000 years ago. Imagine what the stones around us have experienced, and what tales could they tell?
-
STEIN II (2022)
The story of a many-colored quartz from a secret location, from Lofoten archipelago in Northern Norway. Imagine what the stones around us have experienced, and what tales could they tell?
-
STEIN I (2022)
The story of a 3.5 billion-year-old gneiss from Reine, almost at the end of Lofoten archipelago in Northern Norway. Imagine what the stones around us have experienced, and what tales could they tell?
-
DE NI BØLGENE (2021)
In Norse mythology, the giant power couple Rán and Ægir both personify the sea, and together they have nine daughters who personify the waves. Each daughter’s name reflects poetic terms for waves: Uðr, Dufa, Dröfn, Kolga, Hrönn, Bylgja, Hefring, Himinglæfa and Bloðughadda.
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LIVING LANDSCAPES (2021)
Video, Open Instrumentation, Trumpet, French Horn, Percussion, Horn, Cello, Harp, Sinfonietta, Violin, Trombone, Glockenspiel, Viola, Oboe, Double Bass, Wine Glass, Live Electronics, Sounding Objects, Flute, Pitched Instrument, Clarinet, Multichannel Audio, PianoThe Earth is changing and slowly coming to life in form of nature creatures, camouflaged by their size. Is this happening as a reaction to how are we treating the Earth? Or have these creatures always been there?
-
VÅGAKALLEN (2019)
Vågakallen, a troll known from many tales, was sitting in his high chair, almost 1000 meters over the ocean at Henningsvær. A fictive sonic hike to Vågakallen, a 943 meter high mountain in Vågan Municipality in Lofoten, Norway.
-
FOR SOLO VIOLIN(IST) (2018)
Explores and challenges our listening expectations towards the violin and the violinist. The violin is such a strong sounding, historic and symbolic object, that when listening to violin the sounds you explore will always be colored by this.