Trond Reinholdtsen: Intermedia methodology for music

Watch my interview with Norwegian contemporary art music composer and vocalist Trond Reinholdtsen. He creates multimedia music with his own music theatre methodology. He has developed himself in a performative direction; conventional music passages are fused with performance-based forms of expression including essayistic interpretations, live-camera filming, and elements including statistical facts, and face-making. He likes to end concerts with a “composer’s speech to the audience”; a talk that could be performed live on screen, in a recorded format, or relayed through instruments such as midi drums. His works have been performed internationally at festivals such as the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and Donaueschinger Musiktage. He works as an associate professor in composition at the Norwegian Academy of Music (supervisor of PhD candidates in Artistic Research, music theatre workshops, and analysis of 21. century music). He has held numerous lectures and masterclasses, for example in Stuttgart, Basel, Oslo, Huddersfield, Köln, Linz, Luzern, Darmstadt, Warsaw, Los Angeles, Donaueschingen, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Aldeburgh, Dresden, and Manchester.
Questions:
1. What is your musical idea and signature?
2. What are your criteria for a good musical composition?
3. What is your process of composing?
4. What do you as a composer fear the most?
5. Why do you still compose?
6. Looking 10 years back, what are the changes in your musical idea? And how would you explain them?
7. How the development of technologies has influenced your music?
8. What are the biggest changes in music composition (in general) in the last 25 years?
9. How audience of new music has changed (in general) in last 25 years?
10. What are the main future trends (or trajectories) in new music now? Who shapes them?
11. What is the role of new music in society, now?

[@coral_douglas]

so inspiring!

[@chesscomposer_]

Yes, it is. I am writing a dissertation on Trond's work. This interview was invaluable for my research.

[@chesscomposer_]

wow

[@guostetam]

!!!!!!!!!!