Since then, his works have been regularely played by International orchestras and performers. Nordheim is a pioneer within Norwegian electronic music. In his early works, Nordheim was using equipment from technical acoustics, like sinus generators and tape machines usually found in radio studios. In the early 1960s he went to Warzaw to use a radio studio to prepare musical material. Some of this material were used to accompany Arnold Haukeland’s sculpture in Skjeberg called Ode to Light .