FLASHING was written between 1985-86 for Danish accordionist Mogens Ellegaard.

It is an arrangement of material from the cadenza of Spur, a 1974 composition for solo accordion and orchestra.

In Flashing, the composer explores what he describes as the “interesting possibilities” of the instrument, such as the ability to sustain notes in crescendo or diminuendo (similar to the human voice), the variety of registers (similar to the organ) and the attacks that can be quite metallic. Nordheim relates his interest in the accordion to his work in electronic music.