Ole Fredrik Norbye

Ole Fredrik Norbye

Senior lecturer, NLA University College, NLA University College

MishMash role: Member · WP2 , WP4 , WP5

Creativity Music performance Contemporary Church Music Innovation Popularmusic Music

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Book chapter

Music performance

  1. Music performance, 2026

    Bestillingsverk til ordinasjonsgudstjeneste LKN

    Ole Fredrik Norbye

  2. Music performance, 2025

    Kublai Trio

    Ole Fredrik Norbye ; Njål Ølnes ; Per Oddvar Johansen

  3. Music performance, 2025

    Utøvende under 8.mai-markering: Rådhuset, Oslo (Norbye/Borøy duo)

    Sandra Borøy ; Ole Fredrik Norbye

  6. Music performance, 2024

    Utøvende: Oslo Bys Arkitekturpris, Rådhuset, Oslo (Norbye/Borøy duo)

    Sandra Borøy ; Ole Fredrik Norbye

Conference

  1. Conference poster, 2026

    Can art arise without search or exploration?

    Ole Fredrik Norbye

    Aim / key questions: As generative AI becomes embedded in creative practice, the speed of creation has never been higher and the temptation to skip the slow parts of the work never greater. We ask: what does creativity actually require, and what is at risk when AI is allowed to bypass those requirements? We approach this as an empirical question about creative process — and as a starting point for a comparison between human and machine modes of musical thinking. Methods: This artistic research project documents a two-day recording session at Grieghallen in Bergen, where we deliberately worked from a position of "try and fail" and "not knowing" — refusing pre-planned outcomes, making sketches on the spot, and staying with uncertainty long enough for something unexpected to emerge. We treat the recording process as a case through which the preconditions of creative work can be examined. Results: The work surfaced a chain of preconditions: time enables process, process enables exploration, exploration enables reflexive judgment — what we identify as creativity itself. Each link depends on the one before. Generative AI tends to compress this chain — offering averaged ideas, weakening ownership, and removing the productive resistance the not-knowing depends on. Implications: In a next phase, we will examine our findings in dialogue with the Robotic Musicianship group at Georgia Tech (Weinberg et al.), whose improvising robots such as Shimon raise the question from the opposite direction: what does machine improvisation share with — and lack from — human musical thinking? Value / originality: A practice-grounded contribution to MishMash, opening a comparison between embodied, communal music-making and AI-driven musical generation.

  2. Conference poster, 2024

    Posterpresentasjon:Improvisasjon som undervisningsmetode – en pedagogisk balansekunst

    Ole Fredrik Norbye ; Linnéa K. Jermstad ; Bernt Rune Stray

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