Composer Niels Rønsholdt
Instrumentation An interactive music-dramatic app for smartphone and tablet
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Breathless Moment
(2016)
(2016)
Composer Niels Rønsholdt
Instrumentation An interactive music-dramatic app for smartphone and tablet
Category Other
Publication year -
Catalogue no. -
Breathless Moment is an interactive music-dramatic app developed by the artist duo Klejs & Rønsholdt, based on the antique story about Iphis and Anaxarete as told in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. It challenges the 500-year-old classical form of opera both in terms of media, format, and scale – in which it differs strongly from a ‘regular’ opera.
Unlike an opera in an opera house where the audience is placed far from the singers, with the app they are able to walk around on stage and zoom in on certain actions that take place. The audience can control angle, sounds and the length of the opera – although the content of the story will remain the same.
Metamorphoses is a story about the shepherd Iphis who is unhappily in love with the beautiful yet insensitive Anaxarete, and who ends up committing suicide when she refuses his advances. In the app the drama is divided into seven scenes, each scene consisting of a frozen moment. The app begins midway through the story and unfolds through the interaction of the audience who must assemble a 3D puzzle, to move forward in the story using their smartphones or tablets.
Breathless Moment is the world’s first opera as app. It is possible to download the app for smartphones and tablets for free. The project originally began as a research project in collaboration with The Royal Opera House in London. Breathless Moment is developed in collaboration with the Centre for Advanced Visualization and Interaction at Aarhus University and the DR Vocal Ensemble. The project is supported by the Danish Arts Foundation.
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All categories Solo 2-6 Instruments 7+ Instruments Choir Orchestra Music Drama and Stage Music Educational Music
Den sidste olie
2022 • Niels Rønsholdt
Music Drama and Stage Music
55 minutes
Eh, cl, bsn, 2hrn, tr, trb, 2perc, pno, vl, db & S, Ct, Mezz, Bar
Centalog
2021 • Niels Rønsholdt
2-6 Instruments
45 minutes
String Quartet
Civilizations (version for sinfonietta)
2017 • Niels Rønsholdt
7+ Instruments
23 minutes
1.1.1.1/1.1.1.0/perc/hrp/pno/1.1.1.1.1 + speaker, sample playback, and choir
Etude
2018 • Niels Rønsholdt
Educational Music
Cello solo
Archive of Emotions and Experiences, Book 2
2019 • Niels Rønsholdt
Solo
40 minutes
Prepared piano solo
Archive of Emotions and Experiences, Book 1
2019 • Niels Rønsholdt
Solo
40 minutes
Piano solo
Book of Prayers
2019 • Niels Rønsholdt
Choir
42 minutes
1.1.1.1/1.1.1/perc/pno/1.1.1.1.1 + Choir SATB w. soloists
Until Nothing Left
2017 • Niels Rønsholdt
Solo
25 minutes
Accordion solo/performing accordionist, objects and audience
Country – Parts 1 & 2
2020 • Niels Rønsholdt
Orchestra
60 minutes
1/AFL.1/EH.1/BCl.1/CBn - 1.1.1.0 - perc.pno - archi (quintet or ensemble) + speaker & cello solo
Civilizations
2017 • Niels Rønsholdt
Orchestra
23 minutes
2.1.1.1/2.2.1.0/perc/hrp/pno/archi + speaker, Greenlandic choir & sample playback
Gaze for Gaze
2017 • Niels Rønsholdt
Music Drama and Stage Music
90 minutes
Bass cl, trb, perc, pno, gui, vl, vla, vlc, 2 singers (male and female), 2 extras (male and female)
Drink me, make me real
2002 • Niels Rønsholdt
2-6 Instruments
7 minutes
Alto saxophone, percussion & tape
Exile
2016 • Niels Rønsholdt
2-6 Instruments
20 minutes
Female and (/or) male voice, piano and audio playback
Wir I
2005 • Niels Rønsholdt
Solo
8 minutes
guitar and audio playback
Shame
2016 • Niels Rønsholdt
2-6 Instruments
19 minutes
for amplified quartet (voice, alto saxophone, piano, percussion)
Songs of Doubt
2015 • Niels Rønsholdt
Choir
50 minutes
Choir, male solo voice, and ondes martenot
Gloomy Room
2009 • Niels Rønsholdt
Solo
8 minutes
Percussion Solo
Al-Aqsa
2008 • Niels Rønsholdt
2-6 Instruments
5 minutes
Fl, ob, cl, hn
Americana
2013 • Niels Rønsholdt
2-6 Instruments
12 minutes
String quartet
Fear and loath in g minor
2014 • Niels Rønsholdt
2-6 Instruments
12 minutes
Fl, cl, vn, vlc, db, pno
Me Quitte (version for orchestra)
2014 • Niels Rønsholdt
Orchestra
35 minutes
Fm voc, ma voc soli + 2.2.2.2/4.2.1.0/2 perc/pno/gui/el-gui/1.1.1.1.1
The Merman (version for chamber orchestra)
2013 • Niels Rønsholdt
7+ Instruments
16 minutes
1.0.1(t-sax)1.0/0.0.1.0/ perc/pno/gui/1.0.1.1.0/live-elec
The Merman
2008 • Niels Rønsholdt
7+ Instruments
16 minutes
0.1.2.1/1.0.0.0/perc/pno/2.2.2.2.0 + electronics, audio & video playback
Me Quitte (full version)
2013 • Niels Rønsholdt
7+ Instruments
45 minutes
Female and male singers, pno, perc, gui, vl, vlc
Burning
2012 • Niels Rønsholdt
2-6 Instruments
10 minutes
fl, vl, vlc, pno + film (optional electronics/audioplayback)
Me Quitte
2012 • Niels Rønsholdt
7+ Instruments
20 minutes
Two singers, guitar, percussion & piano
Die Wanderin
2007 • Niels Rønsholdt
2-6 Instruments
10 minutes
vl, pno, perc and audio playback
Torso
2007 • Niels Rønsholdt
7+ Instruments
9 minutes
Female voice, clarinet and percussion
Archeopteryx Dances
2010 • Niels Rønsholdt
2-6 Instruments
10 minutes
String trio
Unter den Lidern
2007 • Niels Rønsholdt
2-6 Instruments
13 minutes
Offstage string quartet, audio playback, lights and video