The music of Jesper Nordin (clearly inspired by Swedish folk melodies, rock and improvised music) is regularly interpreted by major ensembles (ASKO, L’Itinéraire and Kroumata), soloists (Frances-Marie Uitti and Benjamin Carat), and symphony orchestras (BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Basle Symphony Orchestra and Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra) at concerts and festivals and on the radio all over the world. He has won several prestigious prizes for his music in Europe and the USA, and been recommended at the “UNESCO Rostrum 2005". Nordin studied at the Royal Stockholm College of music, at IRCAM in Paris and Stanford University in the USA. His teachers include Pär Lindgren, Philippe Leroux and Brian Ferneyhough. From 2004 to 2006 he was composer in residence at P2, the Swedish music radio station. In 2006, Swedish radio broadcast the portrait CD “Residues”, which contained several of his pieces for orchestra, choir, soloists and electronic instruments.
"The dangers of Trespassing" is a kaleidoscopic miniature that carries the idea of art that is both totally dependent upon and totally free from its aesthetic origins. This electronic music is entirely based on recordings of acoustic instruments, and made up of improvisations. It is a contemporary work that makes use of the vocabulary of Swedish traditional music and also borrows from rock. The basic material is improvisation by the Swedish trio Trespassing (Niklas Brommare on percussion, Daniel Möller on violin and Jesper Nordin on electronics) that has been arranged and re-mixed by Jesper Nordin.
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