In the sphere of contemporary composition and performance, the material for composers and musicians is not only sound, but extends to different forms of visuality, objects, movements and language. The Extended Composition project poses some fundamental questions: what new strategies for composition and performance will have to be developed to master the multitude of sign systems emergent from music’s expanded material array? What new significance is emerging from the layers in an extended composition of sound, language and movements, and how do we evaluate it? This presentation contains reflections and presentations of three artistic works done in collaboration between composers, musicians, dancers and other artists. The project group has been Henrik Hellstenius, Tanja Orning, Christian Blom, Ellen Ugelvik and Camilla Eeg-Tverbakk.

This is a presentation of the project “Music with the Real”, undertaken from 2014–2017 within the Norwegian Artistic Research Programme, at the Norwegian Academy of Music. The artists in the project were percussionist Håkon Stene, the composers Carola Backholt, Matthew Shlomowitz, Henrik Hellstenius, Johannes Kreidler and Clemens Gadenstätter, and the ensemble Asamisimasa. In this exposition you find all the works that was composed in the project together with articles about the project and videos from concerts and seminars.