Terje's CareerNorwegian composer Terje Isungset always had a burning desire to play drums, but got his start banging on garbage cans. When he was eight years old, he got his first drum kit and joined his father, who played the accordion, often at weddings and parties. Later Terje played in several blues and rock bands, but felt that he wasn’t giving anything new to the music. In his mid-twenties, he started to create percussive sounds from unusual objects such as blocks of ice, sheep bells and wooden logs. He became known for his unique sounds, and started collaborating with traditional musicians all around the world, doing free improvisation and playing in dance, theatre and film productions. He has been the main performer in 40 CD recordings, including the world’s first CD using instruments made of ice. In Beasts and Beauties, Terje performed on stage with the actors and was one of the threads linking the eight separate stories in the play. His sounds were highly evocative of the landscape or characters, and in the Norwegian tale ‘The Girl and the North Wind’, he played objects native to Norway, such as tiles from the roof of his parents’ house, stones and sticks. |  | |