viibra fagnar útgáfu fyrstu plötu sinnar, viibra, á vínyl í höfuðstöðvum Marvöðu. Nánar síðar.

Ipsa Dixit, flutt á Óperudögum. Sjá nánar hér.

An installation and performance of a composition by John Cage.

Tuesday 18 June 2024 – University of Glasgow Chapel – Free

For this event, we are pleased to present the first Icelandic version of John Cage’s 1979 composition, Circus On, which originally used Joyce’s Finnegans Wake to transform a book into a musical performance Roaratorio, An Irish Circus On Finnegans Wake. A book is transformed into a performance by re-writing it in its entirety as mesostic poetry–a form invented by Cage similar to acrostic poetry but with stringent rules–recording all of the music, sounds, and places mentioned in the book and adding relevant music. The final combination of all of this is then decided using chance. In this Icelandic version, Skerpla, Experimental Sound Lab from the Iceland University of the Arts, Reykjavik, led by Professor Berglind Tómasdóttir, working with Glasgow University PhD candidate and Cage specialist, Victoria Miguel, have transformed Dagur Hjartarson’s novel, Ljósagangur, a science fiction love story about a mysterious sound that can be heard in the city of Reykjavík, into an installation and hour-long live musical performance. This work is being previewed at the Reykjavik Arts Festival on 11 June before the performers bring it to Glasgow for the first UK performance.

The event at Glasgow is split into two parts.

At 7:30pm there will be a live performance of this new composition, produced by following Cage’s instructions: Niður, an Icelandic Circus on Ljósagangur. This live evening performance is free, but please book your place using Eventbrite.

From 5pm-7pm there will be an installation of sound pieces by Skerpla, Experimental Sound Lab inspired by Niður, an Icelandic Circus on Ljósagangur. While working on Circus On we gathered a lot of recordings that were not included in the final version because Cage’s composition uses chance operations to determine what will make the final cut. The installation has allowed us to make use of this leftover material, which is also inspired by the concept of “the thrum of the dead,” from Dagur Hjartarson’s novel, Ljósagangur. (Niður can be translated as thrum.) This material includes recordings of the sounds and places mentioned in the novel, the sounds of Reykjavík, along with a layer of live music. The installation comprises these recordings as well as live performances that are longer than those included in the composition, which strictly limits the ratio of music to ‘silence.’

Visitors to the chapel are welcome to observe this installation, moving in and around performers, whilst it is running. This part of the event  is not ticketed, but numbers will be monitored for the purposes of safety.

We would like to thank Dagur Hjartarson, Jesper Pederson, Matthew Creasy, John Coyle, Björn Heile, Calum Scott, Kerensa Ballantyne, Fin Pointing, Ivan Sanchez Hervas, Jenny Alexander, Robert Davies, Carolyn Kelly, Joan Keenan, SGSAH, Iceland University of the Arts Research Fund, the Chancellor’s Fund at the University of Glasgow, and Glasgow University Chapel. 

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Niður, an Icelandic Circus on Ljósagangur, is the installation and live performance of a 1979 composition by John Cage. Originally titled Roaratorio, an Irish Circus on Finnegans Wake, Cage’s work transformed Joyce’s novel into a musical performance. His score for the piece consists of detailed instructions on how to reconstruct any literary work in this manner. In this first Icelandic version a team of artists and academics will transform Dagur Hjartarson’s novel Ljósagangur into an installation and live musical performance. The work will take place at the Nordic House, in the area where the novel is set. Niður will be performed by Skerpla - Experimental Sound Lab from the Iceland University of the Arts, led by professor Berglind María Tómasdóttir, working with Cage specialist Victoria Miguel and composer/sound engineer Jesper Pedersen.

Contributors: Berglind María Tómasdóttir, Victoria Miguel, Jesper Pedersen, Skerpla Music Group 
Partners: Iceland University of the Arts (music department), Iceland University of the Arts (research fund), Glasgow University

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Composer: Diana Burkot
Lyrics and Performance: Michael Richardt

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viibra and 1000Fold in Rundetaarn, Cophenhagen.

Works by Niels Lyhne-Lokkegaard, Berglind M. Tómasdóttir, Bergrún Snæbjörnsdóttir, and 1000fold

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viibra performs Bára Gísladóttir’s Ms Ephemeris Abyss in Odense, Danmark, as a part of a concert celebrating the latest recipient of the Sonning Price, Mr. Emmanuel Pahud.

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The Icelandic flute septet viibra celebrates the release of its first album with a concert on Sunday, May 26th, in Norðurljós Harpa, where four of the album‘s pieces will be premièred.

Their self-titled first album, viibra, exemplifies their collective creative prowess and invites friends and collaborators along for the journey. On the album, the septet explores the possibilities of expanded flute playing.

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p.e.r.s.o.n.a.l.c.l.u.t.t.e.r// d.e.e.p.t.i.m.e@f.r.u.i.t.m.a.r.k.e.t p.e.r.s.o.n.a.l.c.l.u.t.t.e.r present a programme for Deep Time that explores the fragility of stasis, slowness, and the natural world amid the clamour of clickbait, short attention spans and the Information Age. Between the disparate and the hyperconnected, the timeless and the ever-changing, the audience will be drawn from internal moments to an extroverted and hyperactive present. Through the lens of selected composers whose themes include deep listening, movement, popular culture and ritual, p.e.r.s.o.n.a.l.c.l.u.t.t.e.r invite the audience to pay attention to the quiet as well as the noise, and experience minute and sometimes frantic changes in their bodies alongside more spacious meditations. The programme opens with a new work, seconds, minutes, hours, eons by composer Sara Glojnarić – commissioned for Deep Time by Fruitmarket and p.e.r.s.o.n.a.l.c.l.u.t.t.e.r – which contextualises the concept of deep time by making seamless jumps from the Big Bang to Brexit through a hybrid form that combines a concert scenario with scripted reality and musiktheater, to reflect on the history of time through the eyes of a millennial in a post-internet world. Programme Sara Glojnarić seconds, minutes, hours, eons, 2023 (world premiere, commissioned by Fruitmarket) (10 mins) Berglind María Tómasdóttir My Favourite Things, 2023 (UK premiere) (12 mins) Esin Gunduz A Sense of Energy, 2018 (UK premiere) (5 mins) Jenni Hogan Gregor, 2023 (world premiere) (6 mins) Jennifer Walshe EVERYTHING YOU OWN HAS BEEN TAKEN TO A DEPOT SOMEWHERE, 2013 (10 mins) Jessie Marino Jesus fucking Christ Linda, 2020 (12 mins)

minni ii: idyll, premiere of a flute piece by yours truly, composed for Björg Brjánsdóttir, featured in her solo flute recital at Dómkirkjan, Reykjavík.

Tónleikar ásamt Júlíu Mogensen í Hljóðön, tónleikaröð Hafnarborgar.

To celebrate Terry Riley's 88th birthday, ContaQt and MIT Sounding presented a global telematic event that resonated – literally - worldwide. At the stroke of midnight EDT on June 24th, 2023, a diverse community of 88 individuals, spread across 60 locations in 23 countries and 6 continents came together online to play music with one another, live and in real-time. With no pre-recorded material, no click tracks, no safety nets or contingency plans, together they performed Poppy@88, a collective composition arranged by Evan Ziporyn, paying homage to Riley’s iconic 1967 piece Poppy Nogood & The Phantom Band.

LISTEN TO THE PERFORMANCE HERE.

Opening performance at DesignMarch. See more info here.

Bergþóra Ægisdóttir’s graduation recital:

Líkami, kjarrblámi leitast við að rannsaka og breiða úr hlutverki klassíska tónlistarflytjandans. Þar er stuðst við margvíslegar aðferðir samtíma- og tilraunatónlistar, með sérstaka áherslu á notkun texta og tungumáls til að stuðla að og miðla tónsköpun. Öll verkin á viðburðinum, hvort sem þau eru ævagömul, samin á síðustu árum eða spunnin á staðnum, hafast við og standa á beit á mörkum tónlistar, tungumáls og merkingar. líkami, kjarrblámi reynir að búa til rými fyrir tónlist sem er alltaf með vaxtaverki, þar sem sem rétt og rangt skiptir minna máli en að hlusta af alúð. Kjarrbláminn er harðger, blómstrar snemma vors og gægist undan hvítri snjóbreiðu.

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Pauline Oliveros - Antiphonal Meditation
Sléttsöngur - O florens rosa
Kate Soper - Only the Words Themselves Mean What They Say
Bergþóra Ægisdóttir - Bliss is a carbon cycle
Bergþóra Ægisdóttir - Kirsuber
Sléttsöngur - Ave regina caelorum
Frjáls spuni - Kjarrblámi

Performers //

Berglind María Tómasdóttir, c-flute, bass flute and piccolo
Bergþóra Ægisdóttir, voice and symphone
Haraldur Ægir Guðmundsson, double bass
John McCowen, double bass clarinet
singers from Breiðholtskirkjukór

Tónleikar í Tíbrá - tónleikaröð Salarins, Kópavogi.

Verk af Ethereality og fleira til.

Fyrirlestur á Hugarflugi, ráðstefnu LHÍ

Að spila er að semja; að semja er að spila. Valdefling flytjandans er starfendarannsókn Berglindar Maríu Tómasdóttur sem byggir á iðju hennar sem skapandi flytjandi. Vegferð hennar sem listamaður liggur til grundvallar rannsókninni; frá því að upplifa takmarkanir í dagskrárvaldi í hlutverki hins sérhæfða flytjanda, í að vinna jöfnum höndum að þverfaglegri sköpun og flutningi.

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Talk at Hugarflug, IUA’s annual conference.
Performing is composing; composing is performing. Empowering the performer is a practice based research based on Berglind María Tómasdóttir´s practice as a creative performer. At the core of the research is her journey as an artist, from experiencing creative restrictions as a specialised contemporary music performer,to working simultaneously as a performer/composer across different mediums.

Verkið In a Large Open Space eftir James Tenney, frá árinu 1994, býður áheyrendum í könnunarleiðangur um yfirtónaröðina. Flytjendur (Skerpal og Bozzini-kvartettinn) koma sér fyrir í anddyri Hörpu (Hörpuhorni) og bjóða áheyrendum að ganga frjálslega um rýmið meðan á flutningi stendur.

Skerpla er tónlistarhópur með aðsetur við Listaháskóla Íslands, sem stofnaður var haustið 2018. Skerpla rannsakar, skapar og flytur tónlist af tilraunakenndum toga með það að markmiði að víkka út hefðbundnar hugmyndir um tónlist.

Leiðbeinendur Skerplu eru Berglind María Tómasdóttir og John McCowen.

Myrkir músíkdagar

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In a Large Open Space is an exploration of the natural phenomenon of the harmonic series. The performance will take place in the foyer of Harpa, inviting the audience to move freely around the space during the performance.

Performers: Skerpla and The Bozzini Quartet

Founded in 2018, Skerpla is Iceland University of the Arts Experimental Music Ensemble. Skerpla explores, creates and performs music in the expanded field. The leaders of Skerpla are Berglind María Tómasdóttir, professor at the Iceland University of the Arts, and John McCowen, adjunct at the at the Iceland University of the Arts.

Dark Music Days

The premiere of Our Favorite Things (2022) commissioned by Personal Clutter — Berglind María Tómasdóttir

Supported by Tónskáldasjóður RÚV

Dark Music Days

Heimasíða Myrkra músíkdaga

Hver eru hljóð undirmeðvitundarinnar? Rachel Beetz og Berglind María Tómasdóttir kanna þennan hljóðheim í gegnum spuna, rafmeðhöndlaðan flautuleik og leyndardómar tilfinninga sem liggja í undirmeðvitundinni koma í ljós. Á tónleikunum hljómar tónlist af nýlegri plötu Rachel Beetz, Unofficial auk þess sem ný verk eftir Berglind og Rachel verða flutt.

Berglind og Rachel hittust árið 2010 þegar þær lögðu báðar stund á nám við Kaliforníuháskóla í San Diego. Allar götur síðan hefur gagnkvæm aðdáun þeirra vaxið og dafnað. Rachel býr í Los Angeles, Berglind í Reykjavík og marka tónleikarnir tímamót en þá verða ávextir samstarfs þeirra frumfluttir.
Sem tónskáld og hljóðlistamaður kannar Rachel Beetz vitund sem byggð er á ótömdum djúphlustunarævintýrum hennar. Berglind Tómasdóttir er flautuleikari og tónskáld. Í verkum sínum kannar hún ímyndir og erkitýpur sem og tónlist sem félagslegt fyrirbæri. Saman vonast þeir til að varpa ljósi á djúpskynjuð hljóð frá sameiginlegri undirmeðvitund okkar.

Húsið opnar kl 19.30
Tónleikar hefjast kl 20.00
Miðaverð 3000

[EN] What are the sounds of our subconscious mind? Through electronically processed flutes and improvisation, Rachel Beeetz and Berglind María Tómasdóttir explore these sounds, revealing secrets from the depths of their subconscious emotions. This program features excerpts from Beetz’s recent album Unofficial in addition to new works made in collaboration with Berglind.

Berglind and Rachel met in 2010 while studying at University of California San Diego. Over the past decade, their mutual admiration has grown. With Rachel in Los Angeles and Berglind in Reykjavík, this evening is the premiere of their artistic collaboration. As a composer and sound artist, Rachel Beetz explores presence based on her deep listening adventures in the wild. Berglind Tómasdóttir is a flutist and interdisciplinary artist. In her work she explores identity and archetypes, as well as music as a social phenomenon. Together, they hope to illuminate a deeply heard sound from within our collective unconscious.

House opens 7.30PM
Concert starts 8.00PM

Admission is 3000 ISK

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ómur // resonance

Tónleikar í Áskirkju

sunnudaginn 11. desember 2022 kl. 17:00

— Aðgangur ókeypis —

Í upphafi og um miðja stund les Anna María Bogadóttir úr nýrri bók sinni, Jarðsetning.

efnisskrá

og brenna eins og fuglinn inn í eilífðina ...

Lilja María Ásmundsdóttir

Riposo

Tryggvi M. Baldvinsson

Ethereality

Anna Þorvaldsdóttir

Bambaló

Berglind María Tómasdóttir

Paula's Song

Berglind María Tómasdóttir

Lokkur

Berglind María Tómasdóttir og Jesper Pedersen

Berglind María Tómasdóttir, flautur

Jesper Pedersen, elektróník

Tónleikarnir eru styrktir af Tónlistarsjóði

Síðbúnir útgáfutónleikar

Árið 2021, gaf ég út þrjár plötur. Ég hélt þó enga útgáfutónleika til að fagna þessum áfanga enda heimsfaraldur enn yfirstandandi.

Nú hyggst ég bæta úr því með tónleikum í Áskirkju. Verkin á efnisskránni eru annars vegar af plötunni Ethereality sem inniheldur verk fyrir flautu og hins vegar verk fyrir Lokk sem finna má í ólíkri mynd á plötunum Tónlist fyrir Lokk og Lokkur -- hljóðbréf. Með mér á tónleikunum verður Jesper Pedersen og mun hann halda utan um rafmynd tónleikanna.

Höfundar verka á tónleikunum eru Anna Þorvaldsdóttir, Lilja María Ásmundsdóttir, Tryggvi M. Baldvinsson auk flytjenda.

Sérstakur gestur er Anna María Bogadóttir en hún mun lesa úr nýútkominni bók sinni, Jarðsetning.

Tónleikarnir eru styrktir af Tónlistarsjóði.

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Concert at Áskirkja,

December 11, at 5PM.

-- Free entrance --

Before and during the concert, Anna María Bogadóttir will be reading from her brand new book, Interment.

program

and burn like the bird into eternity ...

Lilja María Ásmundsdóttir

Riposo

Tryggvi M. Baldvinsson

Ethereality

Anna Þorvaldsdóttir

Bambaló

Berglind María Tómasdóttir

Paula's Song

Berglind María Tómasdóttir

Lokkur

Berglind María Tómasdóttir og Jesper Pedersen

Berglind María Tómasdóttir, flutes and Lokkur

Jesper Pedersen, electronics

A belated release concert celebrating the three albums I released last year: Ethereality, Music for Lokkur and Lokkur Reworks. Works by Anna Thorvaldsdóttir, Lilja María Ásmundsdóttir, Tryggvi M. Baldvinsson, yours truly and Jesper Pedersen.

Before and during the concert, Anna María Bogadóttir will be reading from her recently published book, Interment.

The concert is supported by Music Fund -- Rannís

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Flutes of the Californias is a collective of flutists from Los Angeles, San Diego, and Ensenada (MX). Our first concert at Southwestern College will feature a world premiere by Berglind Tómasdóttir, and local premieres by Jane Rigler and Julia Wolfe.