gudmundursteinn

Er óslegin vísa með marhnút í laufarbrauð á hnetti vonargrauts. Þvílíkt biður andlitshnekki um að koma af sósíalnum í foregi og stofna afturliðs herforynju sem segjir stokki úr hræsni málarans flemmings sem möðv […]

Þegar þaut í þúfu engis var örvar víf og drengis sprettur spotti af höri narðar við ljá harðar líkt og bjúga af rosknu antipatti gripi rífsdula sæng. Engi fangi í hor sleitur sem gröf – nötn sem vara langar se […]

Gaustu naut á hellu þegar þykkjuþung burðardýr klifu barkann niður að Einarsströnd alveg ofan í bæ. Brettu brún í meyjarföngnu ufsiloni með ufsalýsi og hrágrýti skolað upp á stöngu – við sæinn, bítur í dreggj […]

Færeyska stórþingið hjá fastan hnút á hnekktar engjarnar eftir að draupan treyja á danskan restúrant. Framhjá hyrnu gengur takfast fljót þar sem nærsýnir hafast við. Hellidemban nær öllum sem kennarfljót leita […]

Lífið lotnast á leynda þrautarbraut. Högg skár í dýfu þegar snellfynns skel heggur í mót þorstann á Hamranesi hratt neðan við niðurgil. Grýtlu ljúfan og væti hart að engjinaðri skoðun Hersteins á myrkri te […]

The USA Clangers by the seaside in Baltimore, Liz Meredith, Shayna Dunkelmann, myself and Jonathan Pfeffer

A friend wrote an email and asked me if I could come in a month to play in upstate New York. The time […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

“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 […]

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 […]

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 […]