Background and experience
I have a bachelor’s, master’s, and PhD in electronic music from UiA. My PhD examines decision-making and aesthetic ideals in DAW-based, vocal-driven electronic popular music production. I also hold a combined military leadership and bachelor’s degree in telematics from the Cyber Engineering School in Jørstadmoen, Lillehammer. In addition, I have studied history at UiS and taken several individual courses at Nord University, UiA, and NIH.
Areas of responsibility
I currently hold several leadership roles at the University of Agder. I am the Work Package Leader for WP1 in CreaTeME, the program leader for the bachelor’s degree in electronic music, and the research group leader for the Electronic Music Research Group. I also coordinate the main subject courses for electronic music students (MUR121, MUR125, MUR204, and MUR312), the bachelor’s thesis course (MUR314), and Electronic Music Specialization (MUR202). In addition, I founded and direct Creative Synergies, a recurring international CreaTeME initiative focused on music education, artistic practice, research, and dialogue between students, artists, educators, and scholars. I also founded and direct D4, a recurring cross-disciplinary and cross-aesthetic CreaTeME initiative exploring the relations between sound, body, place, and narrative.
Teaching
As the program leader for the bachelor's degree in electronic music, I am actively involved as a lecturer and supervisor in most of the courses in the program. I also teach in the master's program in rhythmic music for students with an electronic specialization. I have teaching experience in the following courses: MUE102, MUR121, MUE104, MUR125, MUR204, MUR202, MUR312, MUR314, MUR402, MUR403, MUR502, and MUR504.
Research
My research focuses on higher music education, electronic music practices, and the pedagogical conditions through which creative work is developed, evaluated, and shared. I am particularly interested in responsive pedagogies, peer learning, feedback cultures, interdisciplinary project formats, and the role of technology in contemporary music education.
My PhD, Unpacking the DAW Experience: The Self-Producing Tracker-Topliner-Artists and Aesthetic Ideals of Vocal-Driven Electronic Popular Music-Making, examined how aesthetic ideals shape decision-making in vocal-driven electronic music production, especially within DAW-based toplining and tracking practices. This remains an important foundation for my current research, which increasingly connects questions of creative evaluation and artistic practice to educational formats, institutional structures, and student-active learning environments.
Much of my current work takes place through CreaTeME’s WP1 Responsive Pedagogies, including initiatives such as Creative Synergies, D4 and numerous resaerch projects related to the development of new ways of teaching. Across these contexts, I investigate how higher music education can respond to changing technologies, fragmented student pre-knowledge, and the need for more flexible, practice-oriented, and student-active pedagogical models.