Category: RAFLOST 2019

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Jóhann Eiríksson and Hallvarður Ásgeirsson meet at the crossing of industrial and electro acoustic music. They will perform a piece combining the feedback instrument Varðiphone with modular synthesizers. Jóhann Eiriksson has been active in the Icelandic music scene for decades. He is a founding member of electronic / post industrial groups Gjöll with writer /…

Kaðlín Sara Ólafsdóttir is a sound artist currently studying at the Institute of Sonology in The Hague. Mostly she works with tape and cassettes, exploring the possibilities of low-quality sound and obsolete materials. Kaðlín makes sound installations and live performances using modified cassette players and old cassettes, exposing the fragile materiality of the cassette and…

The piece is based on the display of a three dimensional tomographic image of a four dimensional box (hypercube) onto a two dimensional screen.  Visitors can view this three dimensional shape from all angles using an interactive control panel.  An accompanying sound world is created by the 3D shape’s viewing angle. In his work, Hákon…

Kurt Uenala is a swiss electronic musician now based in Reykjavik after many years in New York City. He has composed and worked on numerous acclaimed music recordings such as Depeche Mode, Moby and The Kills during his time abroad. He first made his name in 2003, debuting on the essential compilation The Sound Of…

(photo by Sigga Ella) Halldór Eldjárn is an Icelandic electronic musician. His music is a collision of the technological and the organic electronic worlds. Synthscapes, fast rhythms and unusal sounds, together forming a vibrant atmosphere of what the future might sound like. Halldór started writing his own music with the electro-pop band Sykur which has…

(photo by John Rogers) Excerpted from a rawlings’ collection of performance scores entitled Sound of Mull, “Intime” documents in-situ performances conducted on North Atlantic foreshores from 2016 to 2019 as sites of especial geochronological interest given climate change and naming the Anthropocene. “Intime” includes performance on the shoreline facing Herøya Industripark, Norway with a view…

Thursday 23rd of May MENGI – Óðinsgata 2 17:00 RAFLOST Festival Opening * Students from the Iceland University of the Arts present works from the Raflosti workshop 21:00 Concert – Electronic Music ** Kurt Uenala Halldór Eldjárn Friday 24th of May MENGI – Óðinsgata 2 21:00-22:00  Radical Digital Painting **  Jeffrey Alan Scudder Saturday 25th…