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gudmundursteinn wrote a new post, 29 Gígjas in the Faroe Islands 11 months, 1 week ago

29 Gígjas

After the premier of Horpma III (for 27 plucked string instruments in just intonation) on the first Tectonics Festival in Harpa in the year 2012 me and Halldór Úlfarsson met and talked about sp […]
gudmundursteinn wrote a new post, Landvættirnar – fjögur tónverk frumflutt – þrennir tónleikar í Mengi 1 year, 8 months ago

Landvættirnar eftir Guðmund Stein Gunnarsson í Mengi laugardaginn 6. febrúar klukkan 20, sunnudaginn 7. febrúar klukkan 20 og miðvikudaginn 10. febrúar klukkan 20.

Miðaverð 2.500.- Bókið sæti á boo […]
gudmundursteinn wrote a new post, The Barrels and the BBC 1 year, 11 months ago

an idea

I met Halldór Úlfarsson in 2003. Then he had just made his first “punk-fiddle” which later evolved into his famous Halldorophone. In 2013 however, he introduced me to a piece of equipment called a 3d […]
gudmundursteinn wrote a new post, Music Video 2 years, 3 months ago

The music video to Látlaust og Íhugult on Sinfónía, made by Sam T. Rees

. . . and there’s a music video! Sam T. Rees (or studio CAPS LOCK ON MY BLACK HOLE) made the cover to the sinfonia L.P. and CD on Car […]
gudmundursteinn wrote a new post, On Sinfonia (4th mov. – The People) 2 years, 3 months ago

The wonderful Fengjastrútur people walking on stage right before showtime in Mengi (March 8th 2019)

Ensemble Fengjastrútur on the evening of March 8th 2019 premier and the recording session two days later, c […]
gudmundursteinn wrote a new post, On Sinfonia (3rd mov. – Art Works) 2 years, 3 months ago

Vinyl

The
Worcestershirean artist Sam T. Rees and I have worked together for a few years
and we’ve made some record covers together. Well, it’s his record covers, I
only make the sound part. He does his best […]
gudmundursteinn wrote a new post, On Sinfonia (2nd movement – Music) 2 years, 4 months ago

Fengjastrútur performing Skálavelli Mengi 2017

The
Fengjastrútur concert in Mengi was going to have several older pieces and maybe
one or two new ones. The new one grew into a symphony of sorts. Co […]
gudmundursteinn wrote a new post, On Sinfonia (1st movement – History) 2 years, 4 months ago

Fengjastrútur in Masterkey Studios

Sinfonia for Ensemble Fengjastrútur

Sinfonia is a symphony of sorts, written for the experimental music ensemble Fengjastrútur which is based in Reykjavík, Ice […]
gudmundursteinn wrote a new post, New article in the Italian Webzine Percorsi Musicali 2 years, 4 months ago

Ettore Garzia’s introduction to the article on sinfonia and my work in general for Percorsi Musicale

Percorsi Musicali wrote a somewhat lengthy article about my upcoming record on Carrier Records, Sinfonia in […]
gudmundursteinn wrote a new post, Mimitabu 10 year anniversary 2 years, 7 months ago

Ensemble Mimitabu in Gothenburg, Sweden will celebrate its 10 year anniversary in April. I will participate and my present to them is my new piece Hótel Natúra, written for this very occasion. The concert w […]
gudmundursteinn wrote a new post, Na hör’n Sie mal: Ohren auf Island 2 years, 7 months ago

notabu.ensemble

On March 6th notabu.ensemble will give a concert with an all Icelandic program in Tonhalle Düsseldorf under the title Ohren auf Island. It has been curated by Atli Ingólfsson and I’m happy t […]
gudmundursteinn wrote a new post, Vorlag/Sumarlag and Skartamannafélagið reviewed in the Sound Projector 2 years, 8 months ago

“Every piece on Skartamannafelagid is a triumph of this deeply integrated way of composing; layers pulling in different directions, astonishingly novel textures and sounds. We have something that appears to […]
gudmundursteinn wrote a new post, Dark Music Days 2 years, 8 months ago

The concert tonight

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 by Birgit Djupedal, Þóranna […]
gudmundursteinn wrote a new post, Aesthetics for Birds 2 years, 8 months ago

My opera Einvaldsóður made it into an end of decade list by composer and researcher Daryl Jamieson which he made for the web journal Aesthetics for Birds. I find this very interesting, that he found out about t […]
gudmundursteinn wrote a new post, An ode to suburbia (a chamber symphony in 2 movements) 2 years, 10 months ago

Caput Ensemble

November 2nd in Breiðholtskirkja the Caput Ensemble premiered my new piece Stífluhringurinn.

The Caput woodwing section: Þórunn Björnsdóttir bass recorder, Steinunn Vala Pálsdóttir Alto Fl […]
gudmundursteinn wrote a new post, Stífluhringurinn: „Þar sem Elliðaáin rennur . . .“ 2 years, 11 months ago

Caput í fullum skrúða

Úr fréttatilkynningu:

Laugardaginn 2. nóvember býður 15:15 tónleikasyrpan í Breiðholtskirkju upp á dagskrá með nýjum verkum tónskáldanna Guðmundar Steins Gunnarssonar og L […]
gudmundursteinn wrote a new post, Writings about digital notation 3 years ago

The Digital Score by Craig Vear

In “The Digital Score” Craig Vear explores various novel digital notation methods, with a broad scope. Screen scores, animated notation, live scores interactivity, algorithmic […]
gudmundursteinn wrote a new post, Ensemble Adapter – September Tour 3 years ago

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 on their program, which they have also done […]
gudmundursteinn wrote a new post, About Einvaldsóður or Monarchy 3 years, 5 months ago

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 was one of Iceland’s most beloved poets at one point bu […]
gudmundursteinn wrote a new post, Einvaldsóður – opera, coming out on recording soon 3 years, 6 months ago

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 soprano

The tenor (priest)

The wind sec […]
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