Hirsti-Kvam, Martin A. International Festival of Contemporary Music Warsaw Autumn

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Composer born in 1991. He graduated in composition from the Norwegian Academy of Music (NMH) and in musicology from the University of Oslo. He creates conceptually-oriented works, frequently applying electronics, visual elements and sampling in dialogue with live performers, always in an attempt to give new perspectives and reflect on what constitutes music, listening, and live performance. Technology plays an important role in his work as an extension of live space, blending the virtual with the real in immersive ways using projections, electronics and binaural recordings, as well as through the incorporation of archival material in the form of old recordings played back from gramophones, cassette players and old Fm radios. 

In 2018, he won the Kranichsteiner prize for composition at the Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music. In 2020 he was chosen to participate in the KUPP programme for young gifted composers implemented by Music Norway and the Norwegian Society of Composers. He has had works performed by ensembles such as Adapter, Cikada, Pinquins and asamisimasa, as well as by the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, at events such as the Ultima Festival in Oslo, SPOR Festival for Contemporary Music and Sound Art in Aarhus, and Darmstadt Summer Courses. 

Selected works: Hyperrealities for audience with headphones (2017), Silent Resistance for percussionist, three snare drums and small speakers (2018), Re-routing for amplified clarinet, viola and piano (2019), Fourth quartet (inner ear music) for string quartet, video, electronics and light (2020), Through imaginary landscapes for six performers, electronics and video (2021), Interiors for three performers, electronics and lights (2021), Memory box #1: Sommermorgen for percussionist, electronics and video projections (2022), Hyperinstrument #1 for three performers (2023), Memory box # 2 (2023).