Music: Recording, Mixing and Mastering
Timestamps:
[0:03–0:22] Country
[0:23–0:45] Indie Rock, Post-Punk
[0:46–1:12] Jazz Rock
[1:13–1:32] Indie Rock, Pop Punk
[1:33–1:49] Blues Rock
[1:50–2:11] Metal
[2:12–2:37] Punk
[2:38–2:58] Pop Punk
[2:59–3:18] Indie Pop
[3:19–3:45] Hip-Hop
[3:46–4:03] Hip-Hop
“Paradise” [0:03–0:22]
Jessie Veeder
Playing Favorites
Apple Music | Spotify | CD
Recording, mixing and mastering by Nora Nygard
“Just Their Luck” [0:23–0:45]
Lazerdave
South Bay
Apple Music | Spotify | YouTube
Recording, mixing and mastering by Nora Nygard
“Wisdom” [0:46–1:12]
The Peace Garden Collective
Peace Garden
Recording, mixing and mastering by Nora Nygard
“Wisdom” co-arranged by Nora Nygard
“Wilder” [1:13–1:32]
Vanity Plate
Wilder
Bandcamp | Apple Music | Spotify
Recording, mixing and mastering by Nora Nygard
Modular synthesizer and background vocals by Nora Nygard
“That’s All You Need” [1:33–1:49]
Mighty Big Jim and the Tall Boys
Diamonds and Tears
Website | Apple Music | Spotify | YouTube
Produced by Casey Malkuch, Jim Devine and Nora Nygard
Recording and mixing by Nora Nygard
Mastering by Emerson Mancini at Demifugue Mastering
“The Sorceress” [1:50–2:11]
Frosthelm
Pyrrhic
Bandcamp | Apple Music | Spotify | YouTube
Produced by Alec Schneider
Recording by Nora Nygard
Mixing by Eric Milos
Mastering by Maor Appelbaum
“Commuter of the Living Dead” [2:12–2:37]
Big Suck
Small Victories
Bandcamp | Apple Music | Spotify | YouTube
Synthesizer and additional drum programming on “Dream Walker” by Nora Nygard
Recording by Nora Nygard (Tracks 1–7, 9, 11–14) and Jason Brown (8, 10, 13)
Mixing by Nora Nygard (1–14) and Jason Brown (8, 10, 13)
Mastering by Nora Nygard
“chowmain666” [2:38–2:58]
Free Truman
It's Whatever
Recording by Nora Nygard and Blake Burbach
Mixing and mastering by Nora Nygard
“Existential Quantities” [2:59–3:18]
Kat and the Kodachromes
1954
Bandcamp | Apple Music | Spotify | YouTube
Recording, mixing and mastering by Nora Nygard
“Dumb” [3:19–3:45]
Jantzonia
Raccoons of Chestnut Street
Bandcamp | Apple Music | Spotify | YouTube
Mixing and mastering by Nora Nygard
“Shapes” [3:46–4:03]
Helms Deep
Beat production, mixing and mastering by Nora Nygard
Audiobooks, Podcasts, Comedy
Timestamps:
[0:03–1:02] Audiobook
[1:03–2:02] Podcast
[2:03–3:03] Live Comedy
Dirt to Soil [0:03–1:02]
Dirt to Soil: One Family’s Journey into Regenerative Agriculture
Written and narrated by Gabe Brown
Chelsea Green Publishing
Recording, editing, mixing, and mastering for ACX by Nora Nygard
Top 5 in Audible’s Agricultural & Food Sciences category with 4.9 stars from over 1,800 ratings (Feb. 2026)
Jefferson 101 [1:03–2:02]
The Thomas Jefferson Hour
Jefferson 101
Editing, mixing and mastering by Nora Nygard
Twenty-four episodes of the Jefferson 101 series by the Thomas Jefferson Hour (now known as Listening to America) edited into a fifteen-hour collection
Talking out of Tights [2:03–3:03]
Talking out of Tights
Clay S. Jenkinson
Bandcamp | Apple Music | Spotify
Recorded by Todd Washburn at the Roper Theater in Norfolk, VA
Mixing and mastering by Nora Nygard
Music Production and Composition
Timestamps:
[0:03–0:32] Ambient
[0:33–1:02] Electronic
[1:03–1:32] Dance Pop
[1:33–2:02] Synthpop
[2:03–2:32] Industrial
[2:33–3:02] Electronic
[3:03–3:32] Piano
[3:33–4:00] Hip-Hop
I Wish I Could See You [0:03–0:32]
I Wish I Could See You
Nora Nygard
Subvert | Bandcamp | Spotify | YouTube
Written and produced by Nora Nygard.
“I Wish I Could See You is a 40-minute composition of flowing Ableton synths, as alive as a river but as calm as a lake.”
— Molly Mary O’Brien, I Enjoy Music
“A stunning portrait of grief, loss, and isolation, Nora Nygard’s I Wish I Could See You is a finale to her epic body of work in this genre, [this album is her] latest masterpiece”
— Lara Bennett, Petal Motel
“Nygard folds timbres into one another, moving from aqueous, melodic sequences into luminous beacons spreading outward across bright chord progressions and wistful arrangements. […] I Wish I Could See You is a beautiful sanctum, a space where we can simply be.”
— Brad Rose, Foxy Digitalis
“I Wish I Could See You is a slowly unravelling odyssey that effortlessly glides through the ocean of ambient synth soundscapes and droning cosmic tones […] start the spaceship engines with this one.”
— Mutant Zones
Total Heat Death [0:33–1:02]
Total Heat Death
Zoë Koenig Dance
Written and produced by Nora Nygard
Drums and vocals by Nora Nygard
Original score for Total Heat Death, presented in the 2023 Choreographers’ Evening at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MN
Other than background vocals, all of the piece’s sounds were created by processing and re-synthesizing drum recordings
Total Heat Death was co-developed with choreographer Zoë Koenig
“I Always Win” [1:03–1:32]
“I Always Win”
Physical Prizes
Zoë Koenig Dance
Written and produced by Nora Nygard
Vocals by Nora Nygard
From the original score for Physical Prizes, an evening-length dance performance that premiered at the Southern Theater in Minneapolis, MN, October 24–26, 2025
Physical Prizes was co-developed with choreographer Zoë Koenig
Audience Feedback:
“Incredible music. Deep thinking production. This will stick with me for a long time.”
“Physical Prizes is taking an X-ray of the making of the dance and the breaking of the dancer. I was really taken with so many images in this work. […] Nora Nygard’s musical composition was absolutely beyond.”
“Beautiful dancing, beautiful writing, beautiful speaking, beautiful words, beautiful reminders. Also funny and sad and hit you in the pit of your stomach.”
“An amazingly creative concept brought to life with incredible skill from all artists involved.”
“The Show Goes On” [1:33–2:02]
“The Show Goes On”
Physical Prizes
Zoë Koenig Dance
Written and produced by Nora Nygard
Vocals by Nora Nygard
“The Trial” [2:03–2:32]
“The Trial”
Physical Prizes
Zoë Koenig Dance
Written and produced by Nora Nygard
“The Lights” [2:33–3:02]
“The Lights”
Physical Prizes
Zoë Koenig Dance
Written and produced by Nora Nygard
“Audition #6” [3:03–3:32]
“Audition #6”
Physical Prizes
Zoë Koenig Dance
Written and produced by Nora Nygard
“Shapes” [3:33–4:00]
Helms Deep
Beat production, mixing and mastering by Nora Nygard
Video Production
Timestamps:
[0:04–1:26] On-location Short Documentary
[1:27–2:01] On-location Social Media Short
[2:02–2:39] Dance Promo Social Media Short
Badlands Conservation Corps [0:04–1:26]
“Working with the Badlands Conservation Corps”
Badlands Conservation Alliance
Videography, editing, sound recording and mixing, music composition, and interviews by Nora Nygard
Shot June 15–19, 2025 in western North Dakota with a Panasonic GH5
Edited in Premiere Pro
Photographs provided by Badlands Conservation Alliance
Erosion Prevention [1:27–2:01]
“Erosion Prevention on the Maah Daah Hey Trail”
Badlands Conservation Alliance
Videography, editing, sound recording and mixing, and interviews by Nora Nygard
Shot June 17, 2025 in western North Dakota with a Panasonic GH5
Edited in Premiere Pro
Physical Prizes [2:03–3:03]
“What Is Physical Prizes?”
Zoë Koenig Dance
Videography, editing and interviews by Nora Nygard
Shot with an iPhone 16 before dress rehearsal for Physical Prizes at the Southern Theater in Minneapolis, MN on Oct. 23, 2025