Jun 18, 2011
Last night was spent Djing at Opera for the dancing general public of Bergen. I felt especially inspired in the time period between my dinner and leaving to play yesterday, so this time was naturally spent making a new track.
I played the track to the people at the party and they went nuts, so I’ll take that as a vote of confidence. This morning I cleaned it up and added some better elements, have a listen, won’t you? In exchange for the song, I only ask to be able to put you on my mailing list, so you’ll get new stuff in the future, too. Deal?
EDIT: The track Singsiri has been released in a new and better suit, head over to the music page to listen and download!
Jun 14, 2011
Jun 12, 2011
Here’s my second take on re-working some material from Kakkmaddafakka, a deep and groovy edit of their most recent single your girl.
I have a little free time between freelancing these days, so this is my way of zoning out a little. I’m currently working on a typeface based on the nature drawings of Ernst Haeckel, so I whipped up a quick cover for the track using the document I already had open. Enjoy!
May 27, 2011
I must admit; I know very little about design history. In school, we agreed to reject all our heroes, we would not be held down by our own comparisons with these agreed upon masters, the shakers and makers of our profession. Our own misconceptions about our skill levels or talent can rob you of your own self-worth, and we wanted to learn from the masters without losing ourselves at the same time. Time spent drooling over inspiration blogs are negatively proportionate to the time making things.
A bi-product of this, is of course that I find myself at times ignorant to the people other colleagues adore and hold up as design deities. And so, I will not pretend to have an intimate knowledge of today’s theme; Dieter Rams. I had heard of his name and knew him to have done something for Braun at some point, but that was about it. And as you can see from the videos below, I should be ashamed of myself for not being well versed in his cosmology of design. At any rate, I would like to introduce you to him, in light of a recent music album, called “music for Dieter Rams” by Jon Brooks, a work inspired by his designs.
His 10 commandments of design seems to be a good starting point for a series of print designs. I’m telling you as a way to push myself to do it, of course.
You can read more about the album at CDM, if you like.
May 22, 2011
I just whipped up a nice and easy mixtape for your ears to listen to. Don’t try to listen to it with your mouth, you’ll injure yourself.
Listen to it in the player below, or download it and take it with you!
May 18, 2011
I can now finally reveal the full extent of my biggest project to date; my degree project of visual communications, from the design dept. of the Bergen national academy of the arts.
If you want to see the project right away, head over to my portfolio, where it is presented in its entirety.
The project has in many ways been going on in the back of my head for several years, as I have tried different small ways of working with electronic concerts. I have been an active DJ for more than 10 years, and have always had the belief that when we take to the stage, we take on ourselves a certain obligation to the audience. (more…)
May 2, 2011
To “clean my palette” while working on the finishing touches of my degree project, I have finished up my remix of Kakkmaddafakka’s song Drøsø. You can download it right away if you like, and if you like these young voices, why not go buy their brand new album Hest right away? The cover photo is by my man Mario, which tagged along them on their recent Europe tour and made it his BA project. Smart guy.
Bin Laden is dead, I have my teacup full of licorice roots and my lap full of my project pitch. May is gonna be a good month, guys.
PS. if you like my remix, you should sign up for my little newsletter, and get the heads up of new stuff.
Apr 29, 2011
All right, I’ll give you the lowdown: On the ninth of May, I’m presenting my BA project in its finished form, and my sensors will either kick me out of civilized society, or parade my around the city. So on the 9th I can give you the whole thing. For now, I have made a quick documentation of the process, shown in the video underneath.
What is the project about, you say? In very short terms, I am taking all that is good about a traditional musical concert format, adding technology and “audience-oriented visual communication”, and applying it to an electronic concert. You know, the kind of concert where the guy just stands on stage looking at his laptop. Well; no more of that with me around, I’ll tell you.
Check back on the 9th to be amazed.
Apr 20, 2011
I’ll let this one speak for itself.
Apr 14, 2011
I recently became aware of earthships, basically a zero-emission, super-sustainable house. Or as the movement itself puts it; “An Earthship is a radically sustainable green building made with recycled materials”. The difference between this and the rest of the sustainable housing concepts, is that this is actually being built, and have been working great for twenty years now, with new technology perfecting it.
What first struck me is the looks of these houses, clearly resembling something from a Moebius panel or other sci-fi classics. Pioneered in the seventies by architect Mike Reynolds, these housing concepts are not only made by recycled materials, they are cheap to make (about $20 000), don’t require too much engineering skills to set up, and are 100% “off the grid”, meaning they don’t require to be hooked up to any outside plumbing, electricity or gas. Price is of course the biggest factor, and when building an earthship is significantly cheaper than a conventional house, there’s no doubt people will join in. Plus you save about $3 000 a year in utilities.
I can’t stop imagining possible uses of my own trade in this, I would love to work with the visual communications in this project, making it less hippie-like and more feasible for, say, a banker, to live in one. Right now you kinda have to put on some dreadlocks to be allowed in, I feel. There is no reason this system shouldn’t be spreading across the globe faster than it already is, and if living sustainable means I get to live in Yoda’s house, count me in. Now I just want to spend the whole summer drawing my dream earthship house. Imagine a whole village of those things!
There’s more information on the project at earthship.org, and lots of niceness both at the green tribe and good. There’s also a youtube channel, and some books.
Last night was spent Djing at Opera for the dancing general public of Bergen. I felt especially inspired in the time period between my dinner and leaving to play yesterday, so this time was naturally spent making a new track.
