What I love the most about singing

  What I love the most about singing is the sensation of silk between my vocal folds. Like gold or silver; like water, like sand, like glass; gliding softly. That's what I love the most. I love that the vibrations, which are my voice, are…


I was taught to listen to others more than to myself.

I was taught to listen to others more than to myself. No, hahaha, of course not. I am trained to listen to and "take responsibility” for my own voice. Because only I can do that, only I know how to listen to my own voice. Of course! On the other…


It's probably just in my head.

    This photo is from a concert in 2019. After this concert (wonderful music, musician, and occasion. Wonderful!), I thought: that’s it, I’m not doing this anymore. I’ll finish my Ph.D; after that, I'm not going to sing professionally…


Kintsugi

  "Kintsugi (金継ぎ, "golden joinery"), also known as kintsukuroi (金繕い, "golden repair"), is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum. As a…


Singing without my voice - All I ever wanted was to sing.

This is a text I was honoured to be  invited to write for the Norwegian EVTA (European Vocational Training Association) members magazine ”Stemmer som stemmer”. 1 / 2024 (The text has been translated) To learn more about this journey, go to the…


Permatrio -music for the earth

This week is Permatrio-week. Yay! It's a relatively new trio with two (three with me) amazing musicians; Sunniva Rødland, harp and Sigrun Rogstad Gomnæs, percussion focusing on new music, improvisation, and the down to earth mysteries of…


Concluding an Artistic Research Project?

This is the last chapter - the Conclusion - in my Reflection, my thesis, my reflective thesis, The Otherness of the self". If you want to read it in context (and get all the footnotes), go here: https://www.researchcatalogue.net I've always…


Singing with Others!(finally)

During the last year, the Lockdown, many musical friends of mine have shared videos of themselves singing or playing, together with their own voice and/or instruments. There are numerous apps (" acapella" being one of them) where you can record…


When music is scary, have a coffee?

This is a text I wrote in 2015 when I started paying attention to certain situations that triggered my singing nerves to sing against me. I realise, when I write these posts, that many of them are about what I’ve learned and what I now…


Breath in? Breath out?

Sometimes singing is the most difficult thing I know. What once used to be the most natural thing, can turn into something you’re afraid of. And breathing. Breathing is so complicated. When you think about it. And when you don’t think about it,…