New album EXTINCTION SOUNDS out Nov 15!!

Extinction sounds was commissioned by the festival TronTalks 2023 in Tynset/Alvdal, Norway. The work starts out from my vivid sensory childhood memories as a conceptual framework. A very personal approach for making music indeed, but at the same time Extinction sounds also examines more universal aspects of the nature of sound. Every sound, and our perception of it, vanishes and never comes back exactly as it was experienced in that moment. Such is the nature of sound. But what we hear, be it spoken words or the call of a bird, alter our subjective experience of reality and may trigger all kinds of emotional responses and intellectual processes. In Extinction sounds I try to examine this aspect of sound as a compositional tool in many ways, in a musical context where my own memories serve as a sonic painting palette. The title also reflects the extinction crisis and loss of biodiversity world-wide. Nature as an object “over there” beyond humankind, a canvas we can look at from a distance, slowly crumbles in a reality where ecological awareness, willingly or not, regains an ever- larger place in our minds.