Ég var gestur Árna Matthíassonar í Straumum á Rás 1 síðastliðið haust. Hér er hægt að hlusta.
DesignMarch
It was such a pleasure working with Michael Hendrix - together with a group of students from the NAIP program and Hermigervill - during Design March. The piece is called What Now? Here is a little video of the piece.
Watch part of the opening performance and some of the Design Talks here.
The group from left: Rógvi, Hermigervill, Varna, Daniela, yours truly, Vala and Stijn.
Our Favorite Things
"There was something curiously beguiling and intriguing about the piece, held in check at a liminal point between emotional containment and a trance-like dreaminess."
Thank you Simon Cummings (https://5against4.com/) for kind words about my piece Our Favorite Things made for and performed by the amazing Personal Clutter at 2023 Dark Music Days.
Maður borðar banana - A Man Eats a Banana
A video entitle A Man Eats a Banana is having its premiere this Friday on Hugarflug, IUA annual conference on research in the arts. More information here.
Íslensku tónlistarverðlaunin - Icelandic Music Awards
Ethereality var valin plata ársins í flokki sígildrar og samtímatónlistar á Íslensku tónlistarverðlaunum nýverið.
Ethereality was selected as album of the year 2021 at Icelandic Music Awards - contemporary & classical.
Music for Lokkur and Lokkur Reworks
Music for Lokkur and Lokkur Reworks will be released on Friday November 26. Can’t wait to share it with the world. Music for Lokkur is released by Backlash Music on a CD and streaming services and Lokkur Reworks is a self-release available on a cassette and through Bandcamp.
Reviews on Ethereality
Ethereality has been receiving some very positive feedback such as this
“… this album is a more than usually cohesive act of curation … a compelling 54-minute cycle that veers between extremes of scope and poles of acoustic and electronic emphasis. More than most, Ethereality isn’t an album for cherry-picking; it really needs to be heard in its entirety for the best and fullest effect.“ (5:4)
and this one:
"The recording is as superb as Tómasdóttir's technique, which is true for the whole album, including the folkish charms of Tryggvi M. Baldvinsson's Riposo (2015) and Anna Thorvaldsdottir's title track, composed in 2011. ...The same can be said for Clint McCallum's Shut Open (2021), which arises from bass notes to a suspended, silvery cloud of sound, like the soundtrack for an as-yet-unwritten creation myth. In a word: spellbinding!" (anearful)
Read it in full length here:
