Trond Reinholdtsen - Spätstil : asamisimasa. Aurora, acd5108

Abstract

Trond Reinholdtsen is an eccentric’s eccentric. He is not in any way edgy or abrasive, nor is he trying to be, he is simply and thoroughly weird, in the profoundest sense of the term. His website comprises three small hyperlinks beneath a picture he took of himself with what appears to be a front-facing laptop camera: he is making a strange face, his glasses are a bit crooked, and he has two prominent zits, one near his left nostril, the other a bit above the right corner of his mouth. Reinholdtsen is often discussed in terms of enormous artistic vulnerability and risk, and it’s not difficult to see why – he presents a remarkably uncalculated and raw musical practice, just like his homepage. Few musicians are either willing or able to take their total-artwork-projects so far that the decorum of concert life and art-institutions seems to come undone.