Starting on October 14, the Composition Forum will be arranged once a month with intersecting themes between modern music, other art forms and political issues. Famous artists will be invited across disciplines, nerd level, taste, smell, intelligence, and genres. In other words: “Composition” will be understood in its most radically open meaning.

Tori Wrånes is the creator of astonishing performances and music-dramatic productions, where bizarre costumes, operatic pathos, forest mysticism, instrument building, gnomes and homemade language are part of a surreal, often horror-like combination.

Ignas Krunglevicius, with a background in composition studies, has embraced video art, installation, sculpture and textual works in works that thematize power, economics and how modern technology affects the human psyche.

Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje has been unique in redefining what composition can be. She utilizes different expressions and media from score composition, improvisation, political works and performing activities in an impressively broad spectrum.

Henrik Hellstenius has, among other things, launched and researched the concept of "Extended Composition", which involves a compositional methodology where what is included as "musical material" is expanded to include elements from all art forms. His works combine score composition, text, gestures, meaning formation and signs in music, the musicians' biography and interest in dramatic forms.

The forums are free and open to all. An interest in art and/or music is no obstacle. The series is run and curated by Trond Reinholdtsen, Guoste Tamulynaite and Fredrik Blichfelt.

www.komposisjonsforum.no