The River

(ELVA)

Composer (score)

Immersive theatre | 2026

Photo by Morten Quist Hommersand

For hundreds of years, young people of Oslo have been drawn down to the river Akerselva. What binds them to a life on the margins? What has been sacrificed, and what has been gained?

ELVA is a personal story of marginalisation and brotherhood, written and co-directed by Numa Edema Norderhaug, inviting audiences to follow the river god Akeris into Aldriland – a mysterious realm unfolding beneath bridges, along the riverbanks and across the water.

This time I wanted to make the music much more ambient than my usual style, and also emotionally ambivalent: a soft, enveloping blanket of hope, loss and dreams. Warm synthesizers meet piano, pump organ and an ethereal choir, creating a sound world that is both intimate and otherworldly, with the mellow piano theme of haunting
second track «Akeris» as the centrepiece.

Client: Tigerstadsteatret

Directors: Numa Edema Norderhaug and Hilde Brinchmann

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Music by Eirik Myhr

ALL INSTRUMENTS AND PROGRAMMING: Eirik Myhr

(Features sampled choir performed by Trondhjems Kvinnelige Studentersangforening, recorded August 2004)

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Recorded and Produced Summer 2026

Mixed by Eirik Myhr at Kulturhagen