Clavis Metrica pt. 4 – My Acqauintance with Ensemble Adapter
I first heard Ensemble Adapter play at a festival they held in 2006 in Reykjavík called Frum. It became an annual festival, and I attended every year they held ...
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Clavis Metrica pt. 3 – The piece and the process
Clavis Metrica took me a year and a half to write. Some might say that the basic skeleton of the process is about as interesting as a tax report. These were by ...
Clavis Metrica pt. 2 – Which Poetry?
Whenever I say “rímur” and “kvæði” are poetry I feel like I’m lying. So many things about this tradition are so easily lost in translation and, as I have gradua...
Clavis Metrica pt. 1 – Out of Mere Curiosity
Clavis Metrica pt. 1 (of 4) – Out of Mere Curiosity At one point in high school (or menntaskóli, the Icelandic equivalent), some friends convinced me to j...
Stífluhringurinn – album release and release concert in Harpa
There will be a release concert for my album Stífluhringurinn with the Caput Ensemble in Harpa, Reykjavík on September 4th (2024). The album came out on Carrier...
Apartment House performed ‘Sitt hvoru megin við þilið’ in Wigmore Hall
I was in London in mid April for a performance of my String Quartet ‘Sitt hvoru megin við þilið’ in Wigmore Hall. Apartment House gave 3 concerts on...
My slight return to the US
A friend wrote an email and asked me if I could come in a month to play in upstate New York. The time frame was a bit short. I asked another friend if he wanted...
29 Gígjas in the Faroe Islands
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 ...
Landvættirnar – fjögur tónverk frumflutt – þrennir tónleikar í Mengi
Landvættirnar eftir Guðmund Stein Gunnarsson í Mengi laugardaginn 6. febrúar klukkan 20, sunnudaginn 7. febrúar klukkan 20 og miðvikudaginn 10. febrúar klukkan ...
The Barrels and the BBC
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...