Vorlag/Sumarlag and Skartamannafélagið reviewed in the Sound Projector
“Every piece on Skartamannafelagid is a triumph of this deeply integrated way of composing; layers pulling in different directions, astonishingly novel te...
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Dark Music Days
Myrkir Músíkdagar or Dark Music Days in Reykjavík are happnening as we speak. Tonight Heiða Árnadóttir will premier my piece Skrafað í skurði as well as pieces ...
An ode to suburbia (a chamber symphony in 2 movements)
November 2nd in Breiðholtskirkja the Caput Ensemble premiered my new piece Stífluhringurinn. The piece works with screen scores or animated notation, as does mo...
Writings about digital notation
In “The Digital Score” Craig Vear explores various novel digital notation methods, with a broad scope. Screen scores, animated notation, live scores...
Ensemble Adapter – September Tour
Ensemble Adapter has been touring with a Danish-Icelandic program on various festivals this month, the last one being tonight in Italy. Kvartett no. 7 has been ...
About Einvaldsóður or Monarchy
Einvaldsóður is an opera about the history of the world – greed and pride. The text is an Icelandic 17th century poem by reverend Guðmundur Erlendsson who...
Einvaldsóður – opera, coming out on recording soon
Soon it will be released online and on a double CD the opera Einvaldsóður, which was premiered in 2017 in an old turf house church in Árbær Open Air Museum.
The Magnetic Tapes of Iðunn
For those that don’t know, Iðunn is the goddess of poetry in the old Norse mythology. The Iðunn rímur song society has recently published a ...
Scandal in the Church of Árbær
Atli Ingólfsson, composer and professor at the Iceland Academy of the Arts recently published a lengthy article in Icelandic ...