Reinholdtsen, Trond

Born 1972, Norwegian composer. He started his activity as a self-proclaimed “retro-modernist” (against a Norwegian contemporary music scene perceived as too so and postmodern), but gradually, through periods of fascination for programming, complexity theory, semantics, documentary art, the deconstructivism of Kagel, and the energetic theatrical chaos of the Berliner Volksbühne, started producing works in a more “essayistic” manner, systematically mixing music, performance, the lecture form, filmed situations, communist propaganda, plump autobiography, outdated existentialism, mud, fish, and bubble machines. The major part of his activity in the last eight years has been centred around his own opera house, The Norwegian Opra. 

Selected works: ...and yet there will be a hundred visions and indecisions for seven instruments (1997), Strukturelle Konstellation II for 8-channel tape (1997), Psalm for 14 instruments (1998), Aus der Vergängnis for string quartet (1999), Bagatelle for piano (1999), Processes of the Interstitual, electroacoustic work (1999), Hun–hadde–pupp–and–nesa–si, electroacoustic work (2000), Wie man zum Stein spricht for flute, cello, percussion and piano (2000), Hörreste for 21 instruments and electronics (2002), Goddag madam Reinholdtsen, God aften frøken Flink, radio feature (2003), Turba – Theories of Mass Society for choir, video, PowerPoint, tape, speaker etc. (2003), In Context for clarinet, guitar, percussion and video (2004), Antigone Absence, theatre music for empty stage, invisible musicians (viola, flute and percussion), invisible dancer, invisible Antigone (soprano), samples of Don Giovanni and video (2005), Reinholdtsen’s Ode to Solitude, installation / film (2005), Catalogue of Emotions for singer/speaker, piano and video (2005), Everyday for saxophone, 11 instruments, video and text (2005), Des Moines / Sparta + Music for four musicians, three projectors, PowerPoint, sample and live drawing (2006), Ghosts, theatre music (with Vegard Vinge and Ida Müller, 2007), Music as Emotion II for accordion, clarinet, cello, piano, guitar, amateur singer, speaker, tape, video and handouts (2007), Worlds beyond, installation for 20 dancers, musicians, children’s choir and 15 CD players (2008), Ny Musikk–revyen, atonal cabaret for six musicians, choir, actors and performance (with Kai Johnson and Bodil Furu, 2008), 13 Music Theatre Pieces for accordion / synthesizer / voice, piano, clarinet, cello, electric guitar, ad hoc performer and three simultaneous PowerPoint presentations (2008), Concert Music Piece for musicians, composer performance and PowerPoint (2008), Collected Music Performance Videos, video (2008), The Wild Duck, stage work (with Vegard Vinge and Ida Müller, 2008–9), The Norwegian Opra Launch and Gala Happening for six musicians, 30 singers and performers, composer etc. (2009), Invisible Music for soprano, clarinet, cello, guitar, piano, percussion, speaker and tape (2009), Orpheus, opera (2010), The Apocalypse, opera (2010), John Gabriel Borkman, stage work (with Vegard Vinge and Ida Müller, 

2011), Utopia, opera (2011), Faust, or the Decline of Western Music for piano, PowerPoint, tape and theatrical effects (2011), Musik for soprano, clarinet, cello, guitar, piano, percussion, composer, PowerPoint, machines etc. (2012), 12–Spartenhaus, stage work (with Vegard Vinge and Ida Müller, 2012), Inferno for percussionist, playback, gorilla films production and alchemy after Strindberg (2013), Narcissus, opera (2013), Theory of the Subject, piano concerto with video and electronics (2016), Nationaltheater Reineckendorf, stage work (with Vegard Vinge and Ida Müller, 2017), Spätstil for clarinet, cello, guitar, piano, percussion and samples (2017), Ø ‒Episodes 1‒15, opera (2015–18, ongoing).