Civitas Urbanus

2007 is an important year. For the first time in human history more people are living in cities, compared to living in other areas on the planet's surface. I let this amazing fact inspire me during the difficult task of cutting down one year of musical exploration to less than one hour.

The twelve instrumental pieces are solo performance work, played on the instruments Alto Traverse Flute, Tenor Sax, Fretless Sustainiac Guitar, Stratocaster Twang Bar Guitar and Akai EWI 4000s. EWI stands for "Electric Wind Instrument" and is to be played similar to a sax or a clarinet. I play both the EWI's built-in synthesizer sounds and use it as a MIDI controller for virtual instrument parches I created in the software Logic Pro, or my own sample patches that I have recorded with my own electric guitars and tube amplifier plus speaker cabinet.

Most songs were created and recorded as instant improvisations with the real-time sampling/looping software Mobius. I personally regard also Mobius as my instrument, since I'm really experiencing that I'm playing Mobius with my foot controller board while also playing the above mentioned instruments with my hands.

If you should be interested in buying my music on CD I'd like to recommend CD Baby

Be sure to also check out my little more noisy duo Lo Fi Lazer together with Tryggve Lund!<