Blog entries

• Katrin Beckmann

  25 Jan 2012

  Now here’s a nice surprise: a couple of video sketches by Katrin Beckmann where she’s using older material of mine from Marsism.

  So much is happening all the time that I tend to forget the true nature of what I have been doing. But Katrin’s videos made me recall and reconsider these older tracks, and it was [...]

• NYU Jazz

  20 Jan 2012

  The first recordings I made with NYU Steinhardt’s jazz department has now been finished. We recorded seven works in one session, out of which I edited three into shorter formats, more appropriate for immediate listening. The structures I ended up with is a combination of the computer’s generative set-up in the performance patch, the its [...]

• Revisions

  12 Aug 2011

  I have been revising two older compositions, El Pozo for baritone and harp (my very first composition!) and fer cum paciencia: for baritone and organ. Only a few changes were needed for El Pozo, also as I didn’t want to ‘improve’ to much on what is the attraction of an admittedly naïve work. fer cum [...]

• Nakke

  25 Jul 2011

  Played at the Nakke Festival in Denmark. Terrible weather with lots of rain, but luckily the stage was fully covered. Good crowd, and at the end of the show the stage was packed with people, making for a nice, feisty end. It was the first time I used my new sampler. More stable cpu usage, [...]

• Oslo – I & II

  29 May 2011

  Right after playing an appealing yet short set with Dan Overholt at NIME 2011 on June Wednesday 1st, I went to a squatters’ house in Oslo center where I played a full Lars from Mars set. I really enjoy this kind of transversality, and it goes all the way into the code, as I nowadays [...]