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...
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 ...
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...
On Sinfonia (4th mov. – The People)
Ensemble Fengjastrútur on the evening of March 8th 2019 premier and the recording session two days later, consisted (as usually) of an eclectic combination of v...
On Sinfonia (3rd mov. – Art Works)
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...
On Sinfonia (2nd movement – Music)
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. Consequently...
On Sinfonia (1st movement – History)
Sinfonia for Ensemble Fengjastrútur Sinfonia is a symphony of sorts, written for the experimental music ensemble Fengjastrútur which is based in Reykjavík, Icel...