Career
He played in oboist January Wiese"s band Bitihorn from 1976 and joined Ole Hedemann"s Ung Pike Forsunnet (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) in 1981. Universitat Pompeu Fabra released two albums. In 1987 Øgrim released the jazz-rock album Libido (Hot Club Records) with Henrik Hellstenius (keyb), Tore Eide (bs/cl) and Inge Norum (dr/prc).
During the same period of time he wrote music for two theater plays staged by Piotr Cholodzinski.
In 2004 Øgrim released a Civil Defense containing improvisations for fretless electric guitar under the title Some Dodos Never Die and in 2007 the Civil Defense Wagon 8 was released on Curling Legs Records with Polish drummer Jacek Kochan, trombonist Dag Einar Eilertsen, Henrik Hellstenius (laptop) (one track) and singer Anne Danielsen (one track). In 2008 Øgrim played on the free jazz Civil Defense Do I the In? (Not Two Records) where he played with Joe Fonda (bs), Jacek Kochan (dr) and Franz Hautzinger (trp).
In 2010 he formed the music-live-video project Mugetuft with Peter Knudsen and Henrik Hellstenius and an improvisational trio with cello player Clementine Gasser and Jacek Kochan. This trio"s first album is accepted for release at Not Two Records.
Øgrim has been a journalist since the late 1980s writing for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (Norsk Rikskringkasting), Dagens Naeringsliv, Ballade and Oslo Business Memo, and Oslo Innovation Magazine.
He also is a speaker on topics relating to art and technology.