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Espen Sommer Eide
@esomm.bsky.social
Artist / composer
http://sommer.alog.net
“Screens never appear in our dreams”
December 6, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Opening 6.11 at Atelier Nord my solo exhibition Wild music reserve (Pasvik). Two years in the making! (Including this locally grown piezo crystal recording shoe.) ateliernord.no/project/espe...
November 3, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Let’s very briefly recap before continuing on our journey. We are trapped on a planet, orbiting a star that itself is orbiting a disc-like stellar system we call the galaxy, our Milky Way, filled with stars and gas and dust, and – at its heart – a huge black hole.
September 15, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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The new Norwegian Einmal Immer trio - electronics player Espen Sommer Eide, guitarist Stephan Meidell & drummer Øyvind Hegg-Lunde - opts for intuition and magic over reason and intellect, and creates sexy, hallucinogenic music. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/einma...
September 5, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Pre-order is up on my new album and new band Einmal Immer. Release date 5. September. Vinyl and digital. playdaterecords.bandcamp.com/album/einmal...
Einmal Immer, by Einmal Immer
6 track album
playdaterecords.bandcamp.com
August 25, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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Dead Can Dance - The Trial
YouTube video by Eduardo Leiva
www.youtube.com
August 19, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Third transmission (now available to stream on demand via the Radio France site) of pieces commissioned for & premiered at “Présences Electronique 20 ans” back in November, featuring “Playthroughs 25” at the jump:

www.radiofrance.fr/francemusiqu...
Concert Présences électronique 20 ans (3/3) avec Felicia Atkinson, Chris Watson, Oren Ambarchi ....
Le GRM ouvre sa saison Multiphonies 24-25 par les 20 ans du festival PRÉSENCES électronique, dont les musiques ont depuis deux décennies nourri et enrichi l’imaginaire d’un public toujours plus nombre...
www.radiofrance.fr
January 13, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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Much devotion in this collective report on the detention and death of Ukrainian reporter Vika Roshchyna. Thank you.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
‘Numerous signs of torture’: a Ukrainian journalist’s detention and death in Russian prison
The Guardian, working with media partners, has tracked down first-hand accounts to reconstruct Viktoriia Roshchyna’s final months
www.theguardian.com
May 18, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Chess is a sport. Golf is not
April 20, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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“If I die, I want a loud death. I don’t want to be just breaking news, or a number in a group, I want a death that the world will hear.”
She was about to get married; a film about her life in Gaza had just been finished.
10 of her family were killed with her.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
‘If I die, I want a loud death’: Gaza photojournalist killed by Israeli airstrike
Fatima Hassouna, who had been documenting war in Gaza for 18 months and was subject of new documentary, killed along with 10 members of her family
www.theguardian.com
April 18, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Visited @archive.org today - what a lovely organization. I became an even bigger fan.

The servers in pic 2 are their primary servers (well, 10% of them) located in a non-climate-controlled church hall. "We use the heat they produce, and if it's ever too hot - we open a window."
April 11, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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"Thank you, Rick James. This is Frippertronics."

One of the greatest moments on television. The Midnight Special should be taught in schools across America.

youtu.be/dAECAnlnriU?...
Frippertronics on Midnight Special 1979 360p
YouTube video by Ernesto Garcia Bermejo
youtu.be
April 7, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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The End of Hegelianism As We Know It
March 30, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Captured the partial eclipse of the heart of Oslo today
March 29, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Vi må aldri slutte å spørre om hvor langt staten kan gå i overvåkingen av vår digitale kommunikasjon. Dommen i Oslo tingrett åpner for en massiv overvåkningspraksis uten klare begrensninger. #nedkjølingseffekt. Takk til Stiftelsen Tinius. @jonwesselaas.bsky.social
Retten gir grønt lys til statens masseovervåkning
Oslo tingrett har i dag gitt Staten fullt medhold i saken om Etterretningstjenestens masseovervåkning.
www.tinius.com
March 26, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Here's a more fulsome post from the Press. So sad.
Farewell to Jonathan Sterne dukeupress.wordpress.com/2025/03/21/f...
Farewell to Jonathan Sterne
We are very sad to learn of the death of communication scholar Jonathan Sterne, after a long battle with cancer. He was 54 years old. Sterne was James McGill Professor of Culture and Technology at …
dukeupress.wordpress.com
March 21, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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AI agents HATE this one weird trick for coming up with new art ideas ...

wait. pray. do nothing. wake up suddenly in the middle of the night knowing
March 16, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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Supposedly #Americans are mad about Trump but the only thing I'm seeing is a few dozen people at a Tesla dealership or a few hundred or maybe a couple thousand protesting cuts. Until the streets are flooded with 10s of thousands (like Budapest), my opinion is you're too damn lazy to save democracy.
Budapest today. People are demanding that PM Orban resign.
March 15, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Article 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. ⚖️🌍

➡️ No one should be subjected to torture or degrading treatment. These practices have no place in a just world.

#HumanRights #Dignity #EndTorture
March 7, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Just a quick reminder that Europe's population is twice that of USA. There is potential
March 2, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Russia does not want to end the war, and the Trump administration has shown no ability to induce Russia to end the war. And so, predictably, the Trump administration blames the victim, blames Ukraine.
February 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
If you need a magical humanist break from your feed I recommend watching the films of Alice Rohrwacher. Just watched Happy as Lazzaro. Excellent as always.
February 23, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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På bagskærmen ser vi fødder gå rundt i det som tilsyneladende er en stenørken, men underlaget gynger, og vand trænger op nedefra. En underlig, hvid genstand, måske med magiske kræfter, begynder at spille en rolle. Ny tekst @vagant1988.bsky.social www.vagant.no/verdensteatr...
Antydninger og skyggespil Verdensteatret vil ikke pege og fortælle
I forestillingen Flat Sun efterlades publikum mystificerede.
www.vagant.no
February 10, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Todays word: Consostalgie - the nostalgia for the era when we (thought) we could consume without limits. (from the book "Les temps nouveaux" 2025)
February 11, 2025 at 7:15 AM