Artistic Works

 A growing collection of musical works of a more artistic nature.


Rapture equals Harvest

 EAM for 21 speakers 11’30″ 2011
Binaural – Headphones only version

Downmixed Stereo version

 In the spring of 2011 I composed a piece of electro-acoustic music to be performed at a venue called Audiorama, in Stockholm, Sweden. The venue is specialized in multi speaker music and has 21 speakers set up in all. 8 speaker in a ring around the listener, 5 in the roof in a cube with the fith in the center, 4 subs and 4 small speakers hidden in each corner of the room. Truly a magnificent place to have your music performed.

Unfortunately you can’t listen to the piece in this amazing spatial space online, but I have made two versions available. The first is a binaural headphones only version. You need to listen to this one in headphones, otherwise it will sound really off. This version tricks your brain that the sounds are coming from all around you. The second version is a simple downmixed stereo, i.e. 21 channels turned into 2. Needless to say, the sound won’t be very impressive, but for those of you that don’t have headphones you can listen to this to get the idea.

This is a piece about cultism. It is inspired by ”the Rapture” which according to some christian congregations was supposed to take place on the 21th of May, 2011. Ironically this piece was performed on the 22nd of May as a celebration to the fact that we are all still here and christianity is still stupid.

Sällskapsdans med Maria Magdalena

 Wind Orchestra 5′ 2011
Sorry, no recording exists at this point.
An excerpt can be heard at 3:10 in this interview.

A few years back I wrote a piece called ”Slow Dancing with Mary Magdalene”. In the spring of 2011 I made a complete rework of this piece, and now it goes by the Swedish title ”Sällskapsdans med Maria Magdalena”. The piece was comissioned by, arranged for and performed by the Stockholm Youth Wind Orchestra and performed in concert on the 14th of May, 2011. Unfortunately the performance was not up to par and thus I have no real recording of the piece in it’s entirety. Swedish Radio made an interview with myself after the concert about the piece and the experience of working with a young orchestra and also aired a short excerpt of the piece. If you skip to 3:10 in the audio file to the left, you can hear this excerpt.

If you have an orchestra/ensemble looking for new music, please contact me and I’ll send you the sheet music as this piece is just dying to have a proper performance.

Please check back in the future for a potential recording

”Det slutade åtminstone lyckligt”

 Yamaha Disklavier 9′ 2011
This is a composition for Yamaha Disklavier, a midi controlled player piano. A computer outputs midi messages telling the piano which keys to press and actions to perform.

This piece was a part of the annual Disklavier concert called ”midicosmos” at Kungl. Musikhögskolan, Stockholm Sweden. It was also later performed at an event called ”Självspelande!” at Högskolan för Scen och Musik in Göteborg in collaboration with the composition students of HSM. The latter is also where the video was recorded (Thanks to Petter Jysky).

If you have acess to a Disklavier and want to hear this piece performed live, feel welcome to contact me and I’ll try to send you the midi-file.

Melodyne Spangled Banner

 Pluderphonic, Computer 2′ 2010
This video is my reinterpretation of the Catus Cutie’s performance of ”the Star Spangled Banner”. Basically I wanted to make a political stand on current global events caused and enforced by the USA through rearranging their national anthem in a way I saw more fit. I think it actually sounds more beautiful this way.

This was done using some advanced Melodyne techniques in order to make the changes as unnoticeable as possible. This is almost musical surgery and a trained ear will still hear digital artifacts from the editing, but hopefully some of you won’t realize that they are not singing the song like this at all. Compare with the original to experience the difference.

For more information and to listen to the original, see This post

Deus Apparatus

 Violin, Cello & Computer 9′ 2010
This spring I was involved in a project called ”Futurum” which basically is a platform where classical musicians play new music. The idea is to make musicians interested in playing modern compositions and get composers a chance to have their pieces performed by gifted musicians.

The original idea was that the piece was going to rely on live looping. Apart from this, there would be a lot of ”on the fly” effects processing and heavy programming. With the use of colored LED lights I managed to get a motion tracking tool working. The LEDs were to be attached to the instrument and when moved around different effects would be triggered.

Unfortunately a lot of compromises had to be made and due to lack of preparation time most of the electronic goodies had to be thrown out. Though a pity, we at least got the piece played and the essence of using two instruments as an orchestra was preserved.

The piece was performed at Fylkingen, a venue famous for its contemporary scene, and was part of the ljudOljud festival arranged by the composition students at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm.