About GMM
by GMM on January 1st 2005, at 01:00 CET

Hello!

I am a composer, musician, artist, mad professor, failed evil genius, whimsical label mogul... only my expert skills in procrastinating is keeping me from total world domination.

Maybe you heard some of my music in a film or commercial or TV program, and you had no idea - my work is often licensed to accompany moving images.  Or I am hired to write directly to picture.

As an artist my main project is Ugress which is the site you are watching right now. I run my own label Uncanny Planet, a place for all of my projects and ideas to be realized. You can check out my projects right here on this website. I also have a separate professional website geared towards my composer career at gislemartensmeyer.com.

I am a child of the 80ies, I started out making music on the Commodore 64, and continued up along the typical tracker route of C64, Amiga, PC and then Mac sequencers. I had a breakthru with the Ugress debut album "Resound" in 2002. When I'm not touring or lost in the woods I am located in Bergen, Norway where I spend my time in the Uncanny Laboratory studio. Which is really just a laptop.

I write a lot of different music, but if there is a core I would like to describe it as cinematic sci-fi electronica.

I find the current paradigm shift in music exceptionally interesting, I was a outspoken opponent of DRM. I am very intrigued by sampling and all of its cultural aspects - since deep down everything is sampling - and I have an uncanny faith in technology and the possibilties within. Teh future! I am not fond of piracy, but I have a realistic sense, I see how the world works and why it happens. I am dedicated to working WITH technology, not against it, finding a model that works for everyone and makes piracy irrelevant and unnecessary.

You can read a list of software and a list of hardware I use. For further information I suggest looking at my heroes category to learn about my inspirations, see the laboratory category for continuously project progress, or navigate by tags for a top down approach. There is also a FAQ. If you need to get in touch, that is very easy.

Photo by Eivind Senneset.

 

 
Permalink  |  Tags: meta, uncanny planet, ugress, about, gmm, blog


Comments:
#1, by Michael on November 8th 2007, at 13:31
Rewire is not broken on Leopard. Get in touch and we'll sort out the issue you have.

#2, by GMM on November 8th 2007, at 15:17
Thanks Michael I sent you an email. And excuse my horrible blog system I don't think these comments belong to this post, but rather the Leopard one, here

http://gmm.ugress.com/post.asp?id=351

I gotta sort that out some day

#3, by sysrq868 on November 9th 2007, at 09:10
Yeah you do...

#4, by AbSuRd on November 20th 2007, at 14:41
You sir, are the proud owner, I'm sure, of the quite simply most atsonishingly brilliant, flabbergastingly bright, and utterly superior mind of the post-modernistic era. May you prosper and find recognition wherever you may seek.



Oh... and you make kickass music too.


Thank you for being the excellent being that you are, you rock Basshunter!





...hehehe, just kidding Gisle. Gleder meg til det nye albumet, lover å KJØPE det:). Hilsen fra Vestby

#5, by aljen on March 14th 2008, at 10:39
It's been a long time ago... wow, glad to see new Ugress stuff out there. Holy shit, I think I've deleted my pay-pal account already, and Amazon.de knows nothing about the album. Hilsen fra Lübeck!

P.S. is there still a chance to obtain "Resound" as CD? There is someone to whom I'd love to give the original, and I won't give away the one I own ;)

#6, by sysrq868 on March 14th 2008, at 13:14
aljen: Resound is still available directly from here. See this for more information: http://gmm.ugress.com/post.asp?id=488

It also seems to be on Amazon.de; in what condition, I don't know - I'm not that good in German.

#7, by aljen on March 14th 2008, at 15:49
sysrq868: thank you for the info, I'll check it up later this afternoon. Our company's firewall does not allow such links, don't ask me why.

According to amazon.de, they all are selling used stuff, which is the 2nd choice in this case - the album is supposed to be a birthday gift, and I would prefer to give out some virgin untouched pretty stuff. The guy to whom it goes tried to buy Resound 2006 during our visit in Bergen, but we failed. After all, we luckily got one of the "numerous" sunny days in Bergen...

#8, by GMM on March 15th 2008, at 19:57
Hi Aljen, regarding Resound: There are several purchase options; you can buy directly from ugress.com (you do not need a paypal account, only a credit card). you can also buy new CDs from amazon.com, just search for ugress. you can probably also have a store import it for you, I have changed distributors and the CD should be available in import

#9, by Darabian on October 18th 2008, at 20:34
Just found your music by accident when I was surfing in search of a type of music that would fit a video/trailer I was planning to do. Anyway I found your site and downloaded the samples you have there and I couldn't be happier.
Thanks for making great music!

You'll find the video on youtube and if you want me to remove it then just say the word.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmJQI2GV_FY

#10, by gompy on June 17th 2009, at 18:08
trigger 22 har jeg dilla på

stemmene er så kule

#11, by Dimitri aka Dr.DA on November 20th 2009, at 22:55
Dear GMM
I'm director of independent theatre group blackSKYwhite, based in Moscow. Happily i have found your album Nanokaravan in the internet and second track-Kalaallit nunaat daquiri - fit exactly to the piece we working now on - Eva.
I'll be happy if you'll give us permission to use this music for noncommercial purpose.
We'll perform in London 15-20 Jan in the institute for contemporary arts and would like to invite you to see the show if you'll be there

hope to hear from you

sincerely
dimitri

#12, by Raze on December 5th 2009, at 12:24
Ugress makes me progress!

#13, by Majajaja on July 20th 2010, at 11:53
DU E RETT OG SLETT GENIAAAAAAL! :D

Hilsen pige on this rainy trondheimien day :-*



Post a new comment

New user:

Display name
Email (not displayed, needed for verification)
Remember me
Captcha (?), please input the missing letter:
A B C D E F H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Registered user:

Email
Password
Remember me
Comment:


HTML not allowed.