Fengjastrútur is an ensemble which specializes in performing pieces that call for peculiar tasks or performance methods. This might include the reading of animated score, various forms of graphic notation, notation that is hard to decipher, text-based compositions etc.
The works might be theatrical, conceptual, improvisatory or all or none of these. The instrumentation of the group is open and members tend to find a way to do whatever the pieces ask for.
Most members play more than one instrument and are ready to play found objects, climb ropes, set up water slides, meditate for hours prior to a performance or whatever the pieces ask for.
The ensemble has worked with Christian Wolff, Alvin Lucier, Pauline Oliveros, Gerhard Staebler, Kunsu Shim, Stine Sörlie, Ryan Ross Smith and various members of the S.L.Á.T.U.R. collective.
Fengjastrútur has also performed music by Nam June Paik, Ben Vautier, Takehisa Kosugi Þorsteinn Hauksson and many others.
