Hello!
Site is still under construction, but here are some things I have done, with some notes here and there :)
Concert music
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Full workslist
Joinks! - ca. 3 min
tsax., acc.,db., and string orchestra
Commissioned by Barratt Due Junior orchestra and POING
Måker - ca. 3 min
woodwind quintet
Competition piece commissioned by Dextra Musica for Nordic Wind Festival.
Kanon - ca. 3 min
brass quintet
Competition piece commissioned by Dextra Musica for Nordic Wind Festival.
O Freunde Nicht Diese Töne! - 14 min
string sextet, perc. el.
Co-commissioned by Nordsjø kammermusikkfestival, Valdres Sommersymfoni and Midtåsen kulturfestival.
Dreaming and Farting While the Weather is Fine - ca. 12 min
string quartet
Commissioned by Interpuls festival
Language is a Skin - ca. 30 min
s, t, fl, cl/bcl, perc, pno, vln, vlc
Co-commisioned by Bergen National Opera and Icelandic Opera
Correspondances - ca. 10.30 min
vla, pno
Co-commissioned by BBC3, Edinburgh International Festival and Royal Philharmonic Society
A New Train of Thought - ca. 1.30 min
string orchestra
Commissioned and performed by Barratt Due juniororchestra at Ultima 2017.
Ildfluer - ca. 10.00 min
2 vla.
Commissioned by Fagerborg Festspillene
One Man, Eight Cameras - 02.35 min
Violin octett and el.
Written for Marvin Hamslich Competition
Some recordings!
Performance by Quartetto Testosterone, recorded during the 2021 version of the Interpuls Festival, Oslo, Norway. Commissioned by the Interpuls Festival.
I wrote this piece after having spent a lot of time working on an opera called “Language Is a Skin”.
Due to the pandemic the opera was never performed, however I learned a lot from the process, and used what I had gained in the writing of this piece.
“Dreaming and Farting While the Weather is Fine” uses the physical movements of the performers as the basis for material, as opposed to the sounds emitted. Therefore the piece can be thought of as consisting of a series of physical gestures for the quartet to execute, becoming perhaps a choreography before a piece of music itself.
Performance by violist Eivind Ringstad and pianist David Meier, recorded in Britten Studios, Snape, Maltings, United Kingdom. Released by Rubicon Classics (2019). The title is derived from the poem “Correspondances” in the collection of poems “Flowers of Evil” by Charles Baudelaire and was a joint commission from BBC Radio 3, Edinburgh International Festival, and the Royal Philharmonic Society (2018). Maybe the most striking characteristic of the piece is the use of rapid hocketing derived from the Fibonacci series to create this sort of stuttering exchange between the two voices.
Performance by violists Eivind Ringstad and Soon-Mi Chung Barratt-Due, recording in Fagerborg kirke 2018. The piece was commissioned by the Fagerbog Festspillene (2017) and was awarded “Breakthrough of the Year” by the Norwegian Publishers Association (2020). The piece has a heavy use of mirroring/musical palindromes where the melody is played backwards (in retrograde) right after its original form, creating a sort of “mirror” image.
Video with the same title, directed by, and starring Naren Wilks. Performance and recording by me, for lack of other performers and engineers (2016). Very thankful to Narren for being so open in terms of distributing the video with different audio than the original across the globe. The piece is written for eight violins, as to reflect the eight men in the video. All eight violins are fed to eight different audiochannels in surround. The composition is using a technique called Mickey Mousing, to closely resemble the movement of the actors on screen (If a person leaps the melody leaps, if a person crouches the melody goes down etc..).
Video-game music
SFX and other things
Video-snippets by Eleena Bakrie
Note: Fun to try my hand on pixel-art/animation! Produced a track to somehow reflected a hungry funky feeling..