Neither Nor productions is run by Thorolf Thuestad and Alwynne Pritchard.
Welcome to Neither Nor. 2025 will be a very special year for us as we celebrate 10 years of making sound, music, theatre, and installations.
To mark our anniversary year, Neither Nor has a number of projects under development. We’ll keep you posted as they progress.
Every summer, we also host SlettaFest, a one-day outdoor music festival at Neither Nor HQ in Ytre Arna, just outside the city of Bergen. We also have an apartment for visiting artists.
Take a look at the Projects page to find out more.
Sketches for Neither Nor’s upcoming project, Lapsing.
PEOPLE
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Alwynne Pritchard is a British composer, vocalist, actor and writer based in Bergen, Norway. She is currently the recipient of a three-year work grant from Arts Council Norway. In her work, she explores relationships between musical expression and the human voice and body. She has appeared as an actor, vocalist and physical performer in a number of stage productions, as well as directing and developing choreography for her own performances.
Alwynne has composed for and performed with leading musicians and ensembles across the globe. Her work Decoy, created at the Heinrich Strobel Stiftung in Freiburg in 2006 for the Donaueschingen Musiktage, was awarded the special prize given by the Foundation Ton Bruynèl, STEIM and the Foundation GAUDEAMUS.In 2016, Alwynne was awarded the commission to create a fanfare or ‘marker’ to celebrate the opening of Snøhetta’s building for the University of Bergen’s newly created Department of Art, Music and Design, for which she created the book of text scores, up without an insistent casting away.
In 2019, Alwynne hosted and gave a solo performance at the official opening ceremony for the Bergen International Festival.
Also in 2019, Alwynne’s second portrait disc, Rockaby, was released on the Kairos label, featuring works performed by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (with the composer as vocal soloist), Christian Dierstein, the Experimentalstudio des SWR, ensemble recherche, Klaus Steffes-Holländer and the Norwegian Naval Forces Band (among others). In 2020, Alwynne’s recording of Vinko Globokar’s Metamorphosis (composed for her DOG/GOD I) was released on the same label, presented alongside other work by Globokar, performed by Bergen’s BIT20 ensemble.
Alwynne’s professional life has also included stints as a writer and presenter for BBC Radio, a composition teacher at Trinity Laban in London and as Artistic Director of both the Borealis festival and BIT20 Ensemble.
Alwynne’s music is published by Verlag Neue Musik.
“…playful, sinister and altogether riveting.”– The Telegraph
“…a delivery between that of a rock-music diva and a verbal and physical contortionist…”– ALL ABOUT JAZZ – NEW YORK
Photo: Thor Brødreskift.
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Thorolf Thuestad is a sound artist, composer, sound designer and kinetic sculptor.
Thorolf has worked extensively with stage arts, contemporary music, sound installations, and film music.
Among his numerous projects he has created sound design for full scale operas performed at the Norwegian Opera and internationally, he has done live processing and sampling of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra in cooperation with composer Knut Vaage for the 250th anniversary of the orchestra, and has also provided sound design for countless theater productions from small events to main stage productions. He has also scored several short and feature films as well as contemporary dance shows.
He has toured around the world with the New York Bessie award-winning art collective Verdensteatret and has, as part of the theatre companies Transiteatret, and Verdensteatret received multiple Norwegian Hedda prizes, and a Gabler prize. He is much sought after as a specialist in the realization of electronic and electroacoustic music and has been responsible for the electroacoustic realization of many contemporary classical works as well as developing live electronics for numerous new pieces.
In the period 2004-2007 Thorolf held the position of director of sound and music at The Bergen Center for Electronic Arts (BEK).
In 2011 he instigated with Roar Sletteland the formation of the art collective An Index of Collisions, a Bergen based constellation that create kinetic sculptures, musical instruments, text, stage art and film, with the aim of creating a fertile interplay between these elements.
Thorolf is a member of Bergen’s Bit20 ensemble, with responsibility for sound and performance electronics in their productions,He is the co-director of the music-theatre company Neither Nor with Alwynne Pritchard.
Recent projects include For one - for many - for all a performance for 15 kinetic sculptures and three human performers, the final performance for his PhD project Emotional machines - composing for unstable media. Sound design and composition for Nicola Gunns The Interpreters, a ambisonics radio play performed over a 26 speaker array. Composition and sound design for End of Humanity a Neither Nor collaboration with the French company Scènes Théâtre Cinéma. This production was presented at Le Théâtre de La Renaissance in Lyon in February.
He has been awarded the Norwegian Arts Council one-year artist’s stipend three times.
Photo: Monika Sandnesmo.
