Hi there! I am Ådne Lyngstad Nilsen, Norwegian composer, musician and voice actor. Welcome to my little corner of the world wide web! I’m going to tell you my story. I have a bachelor’s degree in musicology from the University of Oslo, and started my career playing in several different rock and metal bands. When presented with the opportunity to write the music for a musical in early 2009 I jumped at the idea. I quickly realized how music shapes the whole experience of a scene, and all the ways music can look both forward and backwards in the plot while still underlining the present. This set me on a path towards making music for movies, commercials and video games and it expanded my musical horizon to a point where mixing genres like Norwegian folk music and Ennio Morricone-style western didn’t seem like a daunting task.

I have since then worked with Gimpvilles Alf Martin Løvvold for an epic trailer called “Dawn of the… stuff” that made headlines in VFX-magazines worldwide, and more than ten million views with YouTube and Vimeo combined. I’ve worked with Fristad film on award winning LGBT short-film “Alex (Alexa)” and did my first feature length film titled “Arquebus: Fagert er Landet” in 2017. I’ve also been fortunate enough to be awarded “Best original score” at North European international film festival (2020) and “Best Composer” at Aphrodite International Film Festivals UK (2020) for the short film “A Most Savage Beast”.

My biggest sources of inspiration are James Horner, Howard Shore, John Williams, Christos Antoniou, Hans Zimmer, Juno Reaktor and of course the breathtaking Norwegian nature!

I write music every day, because it is my language. More so than english and even Norwegian. So if you want to know what it is I do (and how I can help you), I humbly ask you to listen for yourself here.
I am available for films, games and commercials, or if you just want music for an event!