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2024
ensemble
In the company of the shadow cast by the blossoms
2 vln, vla, vlc, cb, sop.sax, perc, melodica
In the company of the shadow cast by the blossoms was composed in 2024 for the Norwegian chamber ensemble Ensemble...
2024
fixed media
Intermission
Stereo fixed media
Intermission is the working title for this short fixed media piece, which I’ve played during solo concerts while I’m heating...
2024
ensemble
Trio för shō, röst och kontrabas
Shō, voice, contrabass
This piece is a first example of the work done by Stockholm JI Ensemble, gathering musicians from different parts of...
2024
fixed media
soundscape
Nison-in
Stereo fixed media
Based on a field recording made at the Nison-in temple in Kyoto, Japan, focusing on the the sound of a...
2023
dance
performance
The Kanji Cabaret
Performance
In collaboration with SU-EN Butoh Company. Photos by KAI-EN.
2023
fixed media
EPL
Phase-locked oscillators and drum samples
Premiered at the concert Audiorama presents Navigators during the Sound of Stockholm festival, 16/11 - 2023. With the use of...
2023
solo
Solo #2
Shō and electronics
Premiered at Fylkingen, 1/4 - 2023. Similar to Solo #1, the sound of the shō is here juxtaposed with the...
2022
ensemble
Ensemblestycke
Shō, saxophone, hardingfela, contrabass
Premiered at my graduation concert, 8/6—2022 at KMH. The work focuses extensively on collaboratively exploring the harmonic space afforded by...
2022
solo
Solo #1
Shō and electronics
Premiered at the concert series Skaiv. The harmonic framework used for the piece is based on the pythagorean tuning of...
2022
solo
Breathing, bowing
Viola da gamba and suspended steel plate
In Breathing, bowing the tuning as well as fret positions of the viol are altered in order for the musician...
2021
live electronics
Plåtstudie
Suspended steel plate
An exploration of the suspended steel plate that was later used for Breathing, bowing, using primarily feedback, sine tones and...
2021
solo
Stycke för cembalo och elektronik
Harpsichord and electronics
I “Stycke för cembalo och elektronik” hörs hur cembalons strängar slås an och klingar av, och likt andetag avgör de...
2020
solo
Hypothermia for bass drum
Gran cassa and electronics
The piece utilizes a feedback system, where a speaker is placed close to the resonating skin of the drum and...
2017-2020
installation
performance
Seismisk Händelse
Multi-channel sound installation and performance
In collaboration with artist Hanna Ljungh. Seismisk Händelse started out as a performance, and was premiered at Dome of Visions...
2019
fixed media
text
soundscape
Third Stream Activities
Text-sound composition
Spatialised in the 29-channel speaker dome at KMH. The work consists of a recording of me reading a text that...
2019
fixed media
Alienated II
Ambisonics
Spatialised in the 29-channel speaker dome at KMH. I composed this piece for the final presentation of my BA project,...
2018
fixed media
Studie för sinustoner och brus
Music for headphones
Through the vast control afforded by digital synthesis a composer can create otherwise impossible sound sources, with timbres that no...
2018
installation
performance
Dwelling
Sound installation and performance
In collaboration with artist Hanna Ljungh. Presented at gallery Spanien 19C in Århus, Denmark. More info can be found on...
2018-2019
installation
Play it Yourself
Interactive audio installation
Play it Yourself is an interactive installation where the visitors control a Yamaha Disklavier using their smartphones. Technically, the installation...
2018
fixed media
Walls of Amber
Ambisonics
Composed during the ambisonics course Nord+MIX in Vilnius. This piece is composed in Ambisonics, with the intention of incorperating the...
2018
installation
Tūla
Four-channel sound installation
Sound installation for Audiorama’s project Ljudbänken in collaboration with Stockholm Konst. The work utilizes all four loudspeakers of Ljudbänken, but...
2017
fixed media
The Aimless Blade of Science
Ambisonics
This piece utilizes a synthesis algorithm where a noise source is sent through a series of delay lines of varying,...
2017
mixed
Musik för speldosor
Modified music boxes
For this work I purchased four identical music boxes containing the song “Happy Birthday”. I then removed some of the...
2017
solo
Skag
Harp and electronics
Premiered in Nathan Milstein-salen, Kungl. Musikhögskolan.
2017
ensemble
Långsamt stycke i C-dur
Violin, Viola, Guitar, Flute
Premierd in Nathan Milstein-salen, Kungl. Musikhögskolan.