It’s official!

KISS 2017 will be held in Oslo, October 11 – 15, vil bli holdt i Oslo.
Anders Tveit, Ulf Holbrook and I are responsible for the event, in collaboration with Symbolic Sound, Norwegian Academy of Music and Department of Musicology at the University of Oslo.

Participants can expect four days of masterclasses, article presentations, concerts and workshops, and the symposium theme is Augmented Reality. This is a key topic in the continuing development of digital music technology for artistic and commercial use. Welcome!

The website for the symposium: http://kiss2017.symbolicsound.com.

08/11/2016

I have had a hand in the programming of a lecture series at The National Library this fall. There have been four lectures:

August 30. – Norwegian Electronic Music: Acoustics and Electricity. With Asbjørn Blokkum Flø, Hilde Marie Holsen and Jøran Rudi.
October 13. – The Electric Voice. With Karin Krog, Gyrid Kaldestad, Andreas Bergsland and Audun Vinger.
November 2. – Sound Art. With Jana Winderen, Jørgen Larsson, Jøran Rudi and Ida Habbestad.
November 30. – The Norwegian Sound? – The development of EDM in Norway. With Per Martinsen (Mental Overdrive), Karima Furuseth and Jøran Rudi.

The idea for the series, and the responsibility for seeing it through lies with Ingrid Romarheim Haugen.

16/10/2016

Sent off today first draft of my chapter for this book, and hope that it will fit the editor’s intentions with the publication. My chapter is titled Representation, complexity and control – three aspects of technology-based sonic art, and describes features of digital technology that has brought something qualitatively new into sonic art practices.

14/07/2016

I have for some time been writing on a book about development and use of music technology in Norway. The includes the development from around 1930 and (almost) up until today. First draft was sent to a publisher in the middle of June, with hopes that the working title Electric Sound in Norway will wake their interest.

14/07/2016

Just sent off an abstract for a book chapter that will appear in an upcoming publication:Digital Dynamics in Nordic Contemporary Art. The book will be edited by Tanya Toft, and will consist of a number of chapters that will discuss different sectors and their development, all departing from 100+ artist statements. My contribution will be a description of the development in nordic music and other audio arts in the period 1980-2015.

14/01/2016