About:

Martin A. Hirsti-Kvam (1991-) is a composer who creates conceptually-oriented works, often using electronics, visual elements and sampling in dialogue with live performers, always in an attempt to give new perspectives and reflection to what constitutes music, listening and live performance.

Technology is an important part of his work: as an extension of the live space, blending the virtual and the real in immersive ways using projections, electronics and binaural recordings; and also through incorporating archival material in the form of old recordings played through record players, cassette players and old FM-radios. 

In 2018, he won the Kranichsteiner prize for Composition at the Darmstadt Summer Courses. In 2020 he was chosen to participate in the talent programme for young composers, KUPP, organized by Music Norway and the Norwegian Society of Composers. He has had works performed by ensembles such as Ensemble Adapter, Cikada, The Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Pinquin and asamisimasa and has had works performed at venues such as Ultima Festival in Oslo, SPOR Festival for Contemporary Music and Sound Art in Aarhus and at the Darmstadt Summer Courses. He has a bachelor degree in composition from the Norwegian Academy of Music and a bachelor degree in Musicology from the University of Oslo