Digitally based music – archiving, migration and performance

Kolberg klipp
Notto Thelle and I are giving the presentation Digitally based music: Archiving, migration and performance at the Norwegian Musical Heritage Conference 2016.

We will discuss the robustness of media and storage formats, and issues of preservation and migration of works onto a sustainable technological base, all in the performance perspective of what is needed to maintain the heritage of technology-based music in this period of rapid change. The presentation falls in three parts: 1) Archiving (Representation, media issues), 2) Instruments, hardware and software (migration), 3) Performance (practices, role merging).

The webpage for the conference is here, and the program is located here.

(The illustration is from Kåre Kolberg’s The Emperor’s New Tie from 1973. The piece can no longer be compiled.)

Art Learning and Creativity

I am participating in this seminar with the presentation: Applying Creative Principles in Software Design for Music Education: A Case Study.

The underlying material for my presentation is NOTAM’s software DSP for children from 1995-7; the contexts and preconditions that framed the project, the design of GUI, workflow and content, and the records from implementation in learning contexts such as workshops and school projects.

Here is a poster from the symposium.

KYMA International Sound Symposium 2017

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.

The Electric Music

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.

Digital Dynamics 2

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.