Astro Bar @ Moloko

By thisisuser on December 14, 2010

At Moloko’s Astro Microbar I’ll do a long set with new material for an upcoming Lars from Mars release. (more…)

Festival Pueblo Nuevo

By thisisuser on November 23, 2010

I’ll be playing as Lars from Mars at the Pueblo Nuevo Festival in Quinta Normal. There’ll be lots of artists connected to the Pueblo Nuevo label. (more…)

A friday gig at Sunset

By thisisuser on November 22, 2010

I’ll be playing a Lars from Mars gig at Sokio‘s concert series Sunset at Museo de la Solidaridad, concert starts 20:00. (more…)

Astro Microbar – again!

By thisisuser on November 22, 2010

I’ll be playing a set with my friend Hans Carstens this evening, at Moloko’s Astro Microbar. Concert will start at 22:00…

List of Writings

Sonification of Emotion State In Family-Run Businesses
Paper (2008)
Visualizing Structures of Speech Expressiveness
Paper (2008)
Gesture and Emotion in Interactive Music: Artistic and Technologial Challenges
PhD dissertation (2006)
Applying a Performer’s Physical Gestures to Sound Synthesis in Real-Time
Paper (2006)
Implicit Relevance Feedback in Interactive Music: Issues, Challenges, and Case Studies
Paper (2006)
Sound Synthesis Affected by Physical Gestures in Real-Time
Poster (2006)
Mood Mapping Technologies within Hybrid Audio Design
Poster (2006)
Providing Rhythm Patterns in Sound Synthesis
Paper (2006)
Mood Mapping Technologies within Hybrid Design
Presentation (2006)
Unifying Performer and Accompaniment
Paper (2005)
The SoundGlove II: Using sEMG Data for Intuitive Audio and Video Affecting in Real Time
Paper (2005)
Open and Closed Form in Interactive Music
Paper (2005)

My main areas of research is advanced music composition, real-time music technology and music cognition. I am particularly interested in the relationship between core emotions and score notation and performance features, as well as novel methods for generative real-time performance that are founded in non-expert music cognition.

Some years ago I was involved in the Nordic SUM project – Systematic Understanding of Music – and a large part of the project concerned the implementation into computer code of concepts from probabilistic melody generation for real-time performance.

This work has since found its way into several commercial releases and is today a constant presence in my live laptop performances, either in duo or small group formats with a variety of instrumentalists or as a solo performer.