Young Norwegian contemporary composer Jonas Lie Skaarud is concerned with ideas of frailty and nostalgia and uses material from historic music, which is taken apart, deconstructed, and pieced together as sonic relics emitting faint echoes of the past. He twists and obscures tonality with the use of microtonality, preparing instruments with objects, and implementing extended techniques.
I Had Wanted a Quiet Testament documents Skaarud’s long and close collaboration with fellow Norwegian, young accordionist Kalle Moberg, known for his work with Paal Nilssen-Love’s Large Unit and Circus, and double master Håkon Thelin, who is an associate professor at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo whose PhD project focused on recent advancements in contemporary double
