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I composed music for the dance performance “Singularity” by dance artists Roosna & Flak. The music is purely generative, meaning that at each performance, the code for the performance generates new versions of the music involved. The solo performer has sensors attached to their body to create interactivity in the sound universe.
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Description The solo dance performance Singularity is an invitation to meet the unknown in ourselves; to let images, thoughts and states arise, transform and dissolve — not knowing what will remain when we offer ourselves to ourselves.“Death Told So Clearly to Fuck Off” is a piece of generative computer music for high order ambisonics.
It’s sound material consists of custom software instruments that model the physics of real string instruments - this virtualization of the physical aspects of the instruments makes variable their shape, timbre and size while they are being played.
The piece itself is structured by a “spawning” algorithm that - according to certain principles of probability - creates patterns of microtonal chords and notes that over time weave their trajectories into larger structures.“I solens flint 1000 floder” is an electronic composition by Mads Kjeldgaard comissioned by Notam and Ultima Festival 2019.
It was composed in 7th order ambisonics, partly at NOTAM in Oslo, Norway, and partly at EMS, Stockholm, Sweden, for a 3D audio speaker dome set up in Oslo as part of Ultima Festival 2019.
The title (which is in Danish) can be translated to something along the lines of “In the shard of the sun 1000 rivers”.Verdenskværnen (“The world grinder”) is a composition inspired by the Swedish author August Strindberg’s rambling, autobiographical novel “Inferno” (1898) as well as the sounds of gentrification.
It explores different ideas of sonic tactility in it’s sound material.
“The sun shines, everyday life proceeds on its usual course, the cheerful bustle of business raises the spirits. Then one feels rebellious, and challenges heaven with doubts. But when night, silence, and loneliness reign, the heart beats, and the breast suffers from constriction.