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new piece for Arepo ensemble
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.
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NESLAND (2026)
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)
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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DEAR HUMANITY (2025)
DEAR HUMANITY (2025)
Dear Humanity is exploring the strained relationship between Nature and ever growing god complex of humanity. The artwork conveys the story through the epic imagery of nature paired with four different soundscapes to choose from, each creating a unique emotional response.
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EN SKOG AV LYD (2025)
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)
EN SKOG AV LYD (2025)
Piano, Voice, Recorder, Video, Winds, Open Instrumentation, Viola, Violin, Percussion, Pitched Instrument, Strings, CelloAcoustic 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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EN SKOG AV LYD (2024)
EN SKOG AV LYD (2024)
HOA electroacoustic composition + five strings. Awarded TONO’s EDVARD Prize, contemporary. “En skog av lyd”, a forest of sound. 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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READINGS FOR THE FUTURE (2024)
READINGS FOR THE FUTURE (2024)
Pitched Instrument, Sounding Objects, Cello, Wine Glass, Clarinet, Bassoon, Winds, Non-pitched Instrument, Stone, Open Instrumentation, Metal Bowl, Flute, Strings, ViolinWhat is the future for the human race? It’s one of the many questions this piece can help us reflect on with the help of 22 compositions created for each of the Major Arcana tarot cards.
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I HAVET (2024)
I HAVET (2024)
Deep down in the ocean we’re hearing something weird. Is it a whale? A submarine? A listening cable? Maybe it’s Draugen down there? Do you hear the tones in the ocean?
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STEINER (2024)
STEINER (2024)
If stones could speak a language we could understand, imagine what stories they could tell!
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I FJÆRA (2024)
I FJÆRA (2024)
The tidal zone is an introvert place. The world is disappearing while you sink deeper and deeper observing smaller and smaller details.
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I LUFTEN (2024)
I LUFTEN (2024)
Do you love seagulls? Do you hate seagulls? Can you imagine a coastal scenery without them?
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ANDENES FYR (2024)
ANDENES FYR (2024)
Standing alone on the outermost tip of an island, facing the cold Arctic ocean, in all kinds of weather. How does it feel to be a lighthouse?
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NORDLYSET (2024)
NORDLYSET (2024)
Sound installation. Can you hear the northern lights? Inspired by how electric particles from the sun collides with the atmosphere of the earth and become visible to the human eye as shapes and colors dancing over the sky.
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FYRTÅRNET – Digital (2024)
FYRTÅRNET – Digital (2024)
Digital version of the art installation in Andenes Lighthouse. Used as an additional information for visitors, available from the QR codes on the walls inside of the exhibition.
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FYRTÅRNET (2024)
FYRTÅRNET (2024)
6-floor site specific sound installation inspired by Andenes Lighthouse – it’s lifetime, it’s surroundings and it’s experiences. Consists of 6 separate sound pieces, and carefully places them inside the lighthouse itself, creating a journey from the bottom of the ocean to the view of the northern skies.
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SOUND CHOREOGRAPHY STUDY NO. 3 (2024)
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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NORDLYSET (2023)
NORDLYSET (2023)
Version with video. Can you hear the northern lights? Inspired by how electric particles from the sun collides with the atmosphere of the earth and become visible to the human eye as shapes and colors dancing over the sky.
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FLASKEPOST (2023)
FLASKEPOST (2023)
Flute, Violin, Piano, Pitched Instrument, Live Electronics, Tape, Cello, Clarinet, Open InstrumentationA 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)
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)
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)
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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EGGUM (2022)
EGGUM (2022)
A sound drive to Eggum, a fishing village on the outer side of the Lofoten archipelago, with the never ending views of Atlantic Ocean.
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NUSFJORD (2022)
NUSFJORD (2022)
A sound drive to Nusfjord, a whole historical fishing village on the inner side of Lofoten archipelago, preserved until today as a museum.
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EINANGEN (2022)
EINANGEN (2022)
A sound drive through Einangen, a beautiful mountain pass, with a view of both the inner and outer side of the Lofoten archipelago.
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MY FAVOURITE PLACES – digital
MY FAVOURITE PLACES – digital
Digital version of “My Favourite Places”. Sound drives through Lofoten archipelago by a local artist. A non-tourist views of the epic natural surroundings with a deeper context. The world is your stage, and you play a part in it.
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MY FAVOURITE PLACES
MY FAVOURITE PLACES
While visitors in Lofoten queue up to take the same photo, hang out at the same place or hike up the same mountain, I go for a walk, sit in low tide areas and find seashells, linger at Iron Age gravesites in undisclosed mountain clefts, greet rocks and mountains that look like mythical creatures, visit kittiwake seagulls that return annually to the same breeding sites, or drink coffee with elderly locals who share stories along with waffles and cake.
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GINNUNGAGAP (2022)
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)
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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PORTRAIT OF MRS. ALVING (2022)
PORTRAIT OF MRS. ALVING (2022)
An abstract portrait of Mrs. Alving from Ibsen’s Ghosts. A many-faceted character that is just as modern and sharp now, as she was then – with four stages of character development “caught” into four chapters of video.
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TWO SIDES OF THE RIVER (2022)
TWO SIDES OF THE RIVER (2022)
Collaboration with Pavlo Grazhdanskij. Awarded “Composition of the year / Årets verk” by the Norwegian Society of Composers. We wanted to create direct communication and build bridges between people by sending loud sounds to each other across the Norwegian-Russian border at the Pasvik River. Pavlo on the Russian side, close to Nikel, working with the sounds of two WWII sirens, and me on the Norwegian side, near Utnes, using field recordings of a foghorn from Sund Fiskerimuseum in Lofoten – a sound known to coastal communities across borders, that have always led people into safe havens in rough times.
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STEIN III (2022)
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)
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)
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)
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)
LIVING LANDSCAPES (2021)
Viola, Cello, French Horn, Double Bass, Horn, Flute, Percussion, Multichannel Audio, Piano, Sinfonietta, Violin, Sounding Objects, Pitched Instrument, Open Instrumentation, Wine Glass, Harp, Glockenspiel, Live Electronics, Clarinet, Trombone, Video, Oboe, TrumpetThe 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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CD WORKS FOR LISTENING (2021)
CD WORKS FOR LISTENING (2021)
A collection of binaural renders of Works for Listening 1-10, a series of spatial electro-acoustic works developed at Notam (Norway), MISC (Lithuania), EMS (Sweden), and CCRMA (USA).
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ARCTIC CREATURES: REPPARFJORD (2019)
ARCTIC CREATURES: REPPARFJORD (2019)
Evolution is taking place. As we change and possibly destroy the fundamental of our life on this planet a new species is taking form – welcoming these changes as their fundamental for life. What we describe as environmental disasters are potential feeding grounds for the new species.
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VÅGAKALLEN (2019)
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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ORGANIZED SOUNDS FOR SOUNDING OBJECTS I: Metal and glass (2018)
ORGANIZED SOUNDS FOR SOUNDING OBJECTS I: Metal and glass (2018)
Metal and Glass experiments with combination tones – a psychoacoustic phenomenon of an additional tone or tones that are artificially perceived in the ear when two pure tones (i.e., tones produced by a simple harmonic sound wave having no or little overtones) sound together at sufficient intensity.
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FOR SOLO VIOLIN(IST) (2018)
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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NO VISUAL (2018)
NO VISUAL (2018)
A performative work challenging the roles between “the ensemble” and “the composer”. The work also explores a non-instrumental sonic world of objects in our everyday lives – slightly amplified and processed with contact microphones.
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PRESSURE (2017)
PRESSURE (2017)
Plastic Foil, Cello, Percussion, Piano, Timpani, Cymbals, Guitar, Vibrator, Aluminium Foil, ClarinetA social, sonic and visual exploration of “pressure”. Commissioned by the Norwegian ensemble asamisimasa for a national nyMusikk tour celebrating the 100-year anniversary of the Norwegian Society of Composers.
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WE CAN’T SAVE THE WORLD (2017)
WE CAN’T SAVE THE WORLD (2017)
The nature around PyeongChang was affected by 2018 Winter Olympics. You could either hear the sound of the construction or the sound of airplanes in the background.
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SOUNDWALK POTATO BLOSSOM STUDIO (2017)
SOUNDWALK POTATO BLOSSOM STUDIO (2017)
Sound map with listening exercises created during the 40-day Deep in the Mountain Residency in relation to the winter Olympics in PyeongChang in South Korea in 2018. Presented as a gift to the Potato Blossom Studio.