I am a composer and artist working with sound art, electroacoustic music and related visual arts. My practice is exploratory and my works emerge from studies of concrete and abstract themes, often inspired by science, technology and physics, in addition to purely auditory phenomena. Having worked in contexts like stage art, concert, film, installation and releases, I have come to the conclusion that media is not important to me. Ideas and works will develop in their own way, and I will follow. My tools, synthesis, field recordings, programming, machine learning, tape techniques are equally not important, but mere means for executing the work, experiencing and observing.
I am currently supported by the Government Grants for Artists (2022-24) administrated by Arts Council Norway.
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Condensed CV
Selected exhibitions and performances
2023
None, Envelope Festival, Akustmata Art Gallery, Helsinki
Nordic Baltic Spatial Soundworks, Envelope Festival, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm
Trust me tomorrow, Verdensteatret, Black Box Teater, Oslo
α ζ, Verdensteatret, Kunstnernes hus, Oslo
Trust me tomorrow, Verdensteatret, Teatros Canal, Madrid
Saxony by James Tenney, with Ensemble Liminar, Casa del Lago, Mexico City
2022
Latent Space Relay Station, Aparte Festival, Tønsberg
‘Enter ghost, exit ghost, re-enter ghost’, with Verdensteatret. Lydgalleriet, Bergen
‘Enter ghost, exit ghost, re-enter ghost’, with Verdensteatret. Nitja centre for contemporary art, Lillestrøm
None, Vitensenteret, Trondheim
Trust me tomorrow, Verdensteatret, Atalante, Gothenburg
2021
Østlandsutstillingen. Trafo Kunsthall, Asker/Vestfold Kunstsenter Tønsberg
Ad_vent, Verdensteatret, Villa Stenersen, Oslo
Trust me tomorrow, Verdensteatret, Festival Musica, Strasbourg
Trust me tomorrow, Verdensteatret, Rosendal Teater, Trondheim
2020
Redundant Location, with Alexander Rishaug. Tromsø Art Academy, Tromsø
Trust me tomorrow, Verdensteatret, RIMI/IMIR, Stavanger
Trust me tomorrow, Verdensteatret, Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival, Black Box Teater, Oslo
2019
We dance alone. Winter Solstice, Oslo
Notam 25 år. Kunstnernes hus, Oslo
City of Sound. Struer Tracks, Struer
HANNAH, Verdensteatret, Le Nouveau Theatre du Montreuil, Montreuil
HANNAH, Verdensteatret, Sonica Festival, Glasgow
HANNAH, Verdensteatret, Festival Musica, Strasbourg
HANNAH, Verdensteatret, Homo Novus Festival, Riga
HANNAH, Verdensteatret, RIMI/IMIR, Stavanger
HANNAH, Verdensteatret, Fusebox Festival, Austin, Texas
HANNAH, Verdensteatret, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio
HANNAH, Verdensteatret, Sonic Acts at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Fritt fall, Oslo
Bilayer, Sentralen, Oslo jazz festival
Orgelnatt, with Laura-Marie Rueslåtten, Stavanger
Café Hærverk, Bilayer, Oslo
2018
Soundtrack for webcams. Solo exhibition at Lydgalleriet, Bergen
Draugth, with Plate Au Residue. Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Draugth, Ljubljana
Prospects & Concepts, with Plate Au Residue. Art Rotterdam, , Rotterdam
Transmediale, Berlin
Nonfigurativ musikk, Bilayer, Tønsberg
Teip (nyMusikk), with Laura-Marie Rueslåtten, Oslo
Only Connect (nyMusikk), with Cikada String Quartet, Oslo
Ilios (nyMusikk), with Tor Johan Bøen, Harstad
2017
University of Greenwich, Sound / Image Colloquium, London
Ex Topia, with Plate Au Residue. City Museum of Ljubljana, Ljubljana
Test_Lab: Summer Sessions. V2 Lab for unstable media, Rotterdam
Winter Solstice, Confusion of Tongues, Oslo
Noodlebar Ambient Edition, Rotterdam
MIR, Oslo
MIR, Oslo
Scenehuset, Kristine Karåla Øren, Oslo
Kultūros Naktis, Padi Dapi Fish, Vilnius
Litauen Tanzt Contemporary, Padi Dapi Fish, Berlin
2016
Jäger, Oslo
MIR, Oslo
Sprø musikk, Arendal
MIR, Oslo
2015
Tbilisi State Conservatoire, Tbilisi
University of Greenwich, London
De Montfort University, Leicester
Pizdets, Oslo
Education
MA in music technology, Norwegian Academy of Music, 2014
Memberships
Norwegian Society of Composers
Kolsås Klatreklubb