Kosmodod is the solo project of Icelandic musician Þórður Kári Steinþórsson. He’s been a member of various musical projects such as Samaris, Polar Attraction and NEUROVISION.
Taking inspiration from folk magic, nature and science, Kosmodod is on a mission to unlock the secrets of the universe using synthesized sounds.
líklega:
hybrid instrument developed in collaboration with chris kiefer and Andrea Martelloni from Meml
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10mn verk fyrir 3+1 snúningshátalara
Up-cycled rotary speakers build into a stand-alone multichannel sound machine
HUMAR-SUMAR-HÚMOR-HÚMAR
LOBSTER-SUMMER-HUMOUR-DARKNESS
In the glow of ultraviolet light, a marine dreamscape unfolds that provides a playground imagined for the Icelandic lobster.
Threads of Icelandic seaweed species drift across the fabric, embroidered in UV-reactive yarns that shimmer like the currents beneath the surface.
A play with words in a quiet conversation between what glows and what hides beneath.
Emma Shannon is a Reykjavik based, Scottish textile artist, researcher and designer whose work explores the intersection of wearable technology, soft electronics and traditional craft.
Spider Network takes over RAFLOST for one night at Hafnar haus.
Imagine maggots crawling over all the walls and ceilings, while drinking bleach and going blind until the whole party is throwing up in all the corners and you can’t see anything but all you hear are these high pitched cries and screams and your ears start bleeding while your brain is melting and suddenly you see these flashes and you see a girl eating mud and a girl throwing salt and there is drumming with no shirt on and a lizard attacking people, all while the noise keeps getting worse and the body starts shaking and all you are thinking is… it is too late to apologise: Kárahátið 1.5
Come join us loser ..
19:00
Hafnar Haus, Wasabi Room.
Árni Valur hefur verið virkur í hinum ýmsu senum raftónlistar síðan á tíunda ártugnum í gegnum bæði sólo og samstarfsverkefni. Undanfarin ár hefur hann einbeitt sér einna helst að tilraunamennsku og spuna fyrir bæði hljóð og mynd.
Active in several electronic music scenes since the late 90’s through both solo and collaborative projects, Árni Valur’s practice in recent years oscillates between film score composition, experimental video production and improvised performance.
Verk: án titils – innsetning í turni
Oft var talað um að draugatrúin hefði dáið út með tilkomu rafmagnsins, draugar sæjust ekki lengur vegna birtunnar sem kom með rafmagnsljósinu. Með það í huga væri jafnvel hægt að tala um Elliðastöð sem einn af fyrstu draugabönunum á Íslandi.
Fyrir þann tíma þá gaf myrkrið og skuggadansinn frá olíu- og grútarljósunum í bland við hljóðin sem fylgdu íslensku tíðarfari ímyndunaraflinu oft lausan tauminn. Fólk fann fyrir sterkri nærveru, eins og það væri eitthvað sem í myrkrinu bjó og lét sér bregða fyrir endrum og eins.
Tilgangur verksins er ekki að vekja upp gamla drauga heldur að leyfa ímyndunaraflinu að njóta þess sem fyrir augu ber og leyfa huganum að reika stundarkorn.
Work: untitled
It is often said that the belief in ghosts nearly went extinct in the advent of electricity and the immersive light it brought with it. With that in mind one could say that Elliðastöð is one of Icelands first ghostbusters.
Before that time the darkness and shadow-dancing from the old oil lamps and the sounds from the Icelandic weather would let people’s imagination run loose. A strong presence was felt, like there was something that lurked in the darkness and the shadows that would sometimes appear for a flash of a second.
The idea behind the work is not to bring back the ghosts of the past but rather to allow the imagination flow and the mind roam freely, if only for a second.
Þórunn Björnsdóttir nam tónlist og myndlist í Reykjavík og síðar í Amsterdam og
Den Haag í Hollandi. Hún hefur unnið í ýmsum miðlum, bæði tónverk og
innsetningar og liggja verk hennar oft í hinu hversdagslega á mörkum hins
persónulega og opinbera rýmis. Hún er janframt blokkflautuleikari og kennari.
Undanfarin ár hefur Þórunn unnið verk í samstarfi við Heiðu Árnadóttur söngkonu
sem hafa m.a. verið flutt hafa verið á Myrkum Músíkdögum. Hún hefur einnig spilað
með tónlistarhópnum Steinöldu síðustu ár. Þórunn er einn af stofnendum
listfélagsins Steingrímur sem staðsett er í Steingrímsfirði á Ströndum og hefur m.a.
staðið fyrir yfirlitssýningu á verkum Ísleifs Konráðssonar. Verk hennar hafa verið
sýnd og flutt á Íslandi og víða í Evrópu.
Þórunn Björnsdóttir studied music and visual arts in Reykjavik and the
Netherlands. Her works appear in various settings and the compositions often have
a strong performative aspects evident in the performances and installations in her
repertoire. The thematic focus is to portray a strong sense of the actions and notions
of everyday life and her works constantly test the boundaries between the personal
and the public.
Thorunn is also a recorder player and a music teacher. Recently Thorunn has been
collaborating with the singer Heiða Árnadottir on various projects. Thorunn is one of
the founder of Steingrímur, an art association, placed in Strandir and is a steady
member of the music group Steinalda. Her works have been performed both in
Iceland and in other European countries.
Stefanos Skialivas is an artist and music-technologist working at the intersection of instrument building and performance. Based in Reykjavik at the Intelligent Instruments Lab, he builds and performs with DIY instruments, treating electromagnetic fields as active sonic agents.
Link: www.stefanosskialivas.com
Performance:
“Another Ghost in the Imaginary Machine” is an improvisatory live electronics performance using coils as musical interfaces to capture the inaudible electromagnetic landscapes of obsolete circuit boards – making them audible through direct induction and unpredictable modes of audio synthesis.
An Endless Game? (2010)
A female voice is discerned, disappears, returns. Fragmented parts of the voice drown, come up again and go on. A never fading joy of creating something new, a sensual play with the elements earth, water, wind and fire. In our material world everything should have an end, but why? Perhaps there is no end…
An Endless Game? was commissioned by the Swedish Radio.
Camilla Söderberg er fædd í Stokkhólmi en ólst upp í Vínarborg. Hún lærði á blokkflautu við Tónlistarháskólann í Vínarborg, þar sem hún lauk einleikaraprófi (Diploma) árið l970, en stundaði síðan framhaldsnám hjá Jeanette van Wingerden við Schola Cantorum Basiliensis í Sviss. Camilla hefur haldið tónleika á Íslandi, í Austur- ríki, Þýskalandi, Sviss, Ítalíu, Svíþjóð, Noregi, Finnlandi og Spáni. Auk þess hefur hún hljóðritað fyrir útvarp og sjónvarp víða erlendis og á Íslandi og komið fram á tónlistarhátíðum erlendis og á Sumar- tónleikum í Skálholti, tónleikum Norðurljósa og Myrkum músík- dögum. Camilla hefur gefið út geisladisk með blokkflautukonsertum eftir Telemann og Vivaldi og geisladiskinn Baroque Recorder Trio- sonatas og leikur einnig á geisladiskunum Amor og Epitaph. Hún stofnaði tónlistarhópinn Contrasti og skipulagði tónlistarhátíðina Norðurljós um sjö ára skeið. Camilla hlaut menningarverðlaun VISA árið l997, starfslaun listamanna frá Reykjavíkurborg árið l998 og starfslaun listamanna frá ríkinu árin l999 og 2002.
Kira Kira (Kristín Björk Kristjánsdóttir) semur tónlist, skrifar og leikstýrir kvikmyndum og vinnur í blómabúð.
Nýjasta platan hennar er “Léttir” og hún er 11ta breiðskífa Kiru.
Tilraunaeldhúsið (e. “Kitchen Motors”) var faðmur fyrir leikglaða tónlist og samhljóm hennar við önnur listform sem Kira stofnaði í félagi við Hilmar Jensson gítarleikara og Jóhann Jóhannsson, tónskáld. Þau flugu vítt og breitt með alls konar djarft brall og andi þess lifir enn góðu lífi í handbragði Kiru.
Um verkið:
Titill: Villta ljós
Höfundur og flytjandi: Kira Kira.
Lýsing: Lifandi frumflutningur á tónverki fyrir hörpu, rafboga og söngvara með videó vörpun á flytjanda.
Helgi Pétursson (1962) útskrifaðist úr Tónfræðadeild Tónlistarskólans í Reykjavík þar sem kennarar hans í tónsmíðum voru Þorkell Sigurbjörnsson, Atli Heimir Sveinsson og Þorsteinn Hauksson. Síðar lauk hann einnig MA námi í Microtechnology in Music Education frá University of Reading.Á námsárum Helga var töluvert af verkum hans flutt opinberlega, þar á meðal rafverk og einnig voru flutt eftir hann verk að hann loknu námi, meðal annars á þeim árum sem hann var starfandi sem tónlistarkennari á Húsavík. Helgi hefur mjög lengi haft afar mikinn áhuga á raf og tölvutónlist og einnig á tölvutækni almennt og starfaði hann um árabil sem forritari.Eftir að hann hætti sem starfandi tólistarmaður lá tónsköpun hans að mestu niðri en hann tók upp þráðinn að nýju með verkinu Blindfugl/Svartflug sem samið var í júní 2024 og er byggt á samnefndu ljóði Gyrðis Elíassonar frá 1986. Helgi segir um tónverkið Völuspá: Mig hafði lengi langað að semja elektróníkt tónaljóð um Völuspá, í nokkrum þáttum.Á níunda áratugnum hafði ég samið tvö elektrónísk verk, það fyrra Trans I og II (1985) og Niðhöggur (1986). Trans I og II var nokkru síðar flutt á Ung Nordisk Musikfest tónlistarhátíðinni í Danmörku og Niðhöggur frumflutt á einum af Tónleikum Tónfræðadeildar Tónlistarskólans í Reykjavík. Trans I og II var upphaflega ekkert tengt Völuspá en Niðhöggur tengdist ljóðinu beint og var samið undir sterkum áhrifum af Völspá sem ég hafði þá lesið í fyrsta skipti. Fljótlega eftir þetta fór að þróast hjá mér hugmynd um að ég gæti ef til vill samið eitt stórt verk um Völuspá þar sem Trans I yrði upphafsþáttur, Trans II yrði lokaþáttur og Niðhöggur einhversstaðar þar á milli. Til viðbótar við það hugðist ég semja nokkra fleiri þætti þar sem hver þáttur myndi lýsa einhverjum atburði eða fyrirbæri í ljóðinu. Það varð hinsvegar ekki af því fyrr en á árinu 2025 að ég loksins bætti við 6 þáttum og lauk við verkið.Þessir nýrri þættir eru samdir og teknir upp í janúar og febrúar, 2025.
Þættir verksins eru eftirfarandi:
1. Trans I 5:33 mín.
2. Yggdrasill 4:59 mín.
3. Allt veit ek Óðinn 3:18 mín
4. Bræður munu berjast 3:25 mín
5. Surtur fer sunnan 4:14 mín
6. Sal sér hún standa 5:05 mín
7. Niðhöggur 5:02 mín
8. Nú mun hún sökkvast 3:43 mín
9. Trans II 7:04 mín
Tónverkið Völuspá er tileinkað föður mínum, Pétri Jónassyni (1941 – 2022), en hann hvatti mig alla tíð mjög til að ljúka verkinu og hann á meira að segja sjálfur þátt í upptökum umhverfishljóða sem heyrast í lokaþættinum.
ENGLISH
Helgi Pétursson (1962) graduated from the Department of Theory and Composition at the Reykjavík Conservatory of Music where his teachers in composition were Þorkell Sigurbjörnsson, Atli Heimir Sveinsson and Þorsteinn Hauksson. Later he also completed an MA degree in Microtechnology in Music Education from the University of Reading, UK. During Helgi’s student years, quite a few of his works were performed in public, including electronic works and works by him were also performed after he finished his studies, including the years when he was employed as a music teacher in Húsavík. Helgi has had a very strong interest in electronic and computer music for a very long time and also in computer technology in general, and he worked for several years as a computer programmer. After he retired as a working musician, his composition were mostly stopped, but he picked up the thread again with the piece Blindfugl/Svartflug which was composed in june 2024 and is based on a poem of the same name by Gyrðir Elíasson from 1986. Helgi has the follwing to say about the composition Völuspá:I had for a long time wanted to compose an electronic tone poem about Völuspá, in several moments.In the 1980s I had composed two electronic works, the former Trans I and II (1985) and Niðhöggur (1986).Trans I and II were performed at the Ung Nordisk Musikfest festival in Denmark some time later and Niðhöggur premiered at one of the Concerts of the Department of Theory and Composition in the Reykjavík Conservatory of Music. Trans I and II were originally not related to Völuspá, but Niðhöggur was directly related to the poem and was composed under a strong influence of Völuspá, which I had then read for the first time. Soon after this, the idea began to develop within my mind that I could perhaps compose one large work about Völuspá, where Trans I would be the opening moment, Trans II would be the closing moment and Niðhöggur would be somewhere in between these moments. In addition to that, I planned to write a few more moments, each section describing an event or phenomenon in the poem.However, it wasn’t until in 2025 that I finally added 6 more moments and completed the work.These newer moments were written and recorded in January and February, 2025.The moments of the work are as follows:
1. Trans I 5:33 min.
2. Yggdrasill 4:59 min.
3. Allt veit ek Óðinn 3:18 min
4. Bræður munu berjast 3:25 min
5. Surtur fer sunnan 4:14 min
6. Sal sér hún standa 5:05 min
7. Niðhöggur 5:02 min
8. Nú mun hún sökkvast 3:43 min
9. Trans II 7:04 min
The composition Völuspá is dedicated to my father, Pétur Jónasson (1941 – 2022),as he always encouraged me to finish the workand he even participated in the field recordings of some of the sounds that can be heard in the final moment.
Hátíðin RAFLOST verður opnuð í Elliðaárstöð 15. nóvember. Í tengslum við hátíðina verða haldnar þrjár rafhljóðasmiðjur.
⚡Fyrir 10 ára og eldri
⏰ 13:00-16:00 1.nóv
🔔12 pláss, skráðu þig hér: https://ellidaarstod.is/vidburdur/raflost-rafhljodasmidja/
Gerðu þinn eigin hljóðheim úr græjugulli!
Í þessari smiðju leiðir Jesper Pedersen þátttakendur í gegnum skapandi ferli þar sem gömul leikföng, dótahljómborð og hvers kyns batteríknúið græjugull er tekið í sundur og umbreytt í ný og óvænt hljóðfæri. Við umbreytum hljóðum, brjótum reglur og búum til okkar eigin raftónlist úr skrýtnum og sérstæðum hlutum.
Þátttakendur eru hvattir til að taka með sér gamalt rafknúið leikfang (með batteríum!) sem gefur frá sér hljóð og má fórna í tilraunina. Engin þekking á tónlist eða rafeindum er nauðsynleg – aðeins forvitni á skrýtnum og sérstæðum hlutum og löngun til að prófa eitthvað nýtt.
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Jesper Pedersen er tónskáld, hljóðlistamaður og kennari sem sérhæfir sig í hljóðgervlum, rafmiðlum og tilraunatónlist. Hann kennir nýmiðlatónsmíðar við Listaháskóla Íslands og hefur komið víða fram með eigin verkum sem og í samstarfi við aðra listamenn. Verk hans kanna tengsl milli tækni, rýmis og skynjunar og skapa einstaka hljóðupplifun fyrir áhorfendur. https://jesper.is/
Hátíðin RAFLOST verður opnuð í Elliðaárstöð 15. nóvember. Í tengslum við hátíðina verða haldnar þrjár rafhljóðasmiðjur.
⚡Fyrir 15 ára og eldri
⏰ 13:00-16:00 8.nóv
🔔12 pláss, skráðu þig hér: https://ellidaarstod.is/vidburdur/raflost-hljodbylgjusmidja/
Þessi smiðja fer fram á ensku.
Invisible Sounds: Making Music with Electromagnetic Fields
What if we could hear the hidden electromagnetic landscapes that surround us? This hands-on workshop explores sound-making with invisible forces – using electromagnetic field inductors and coils to capture and transform the electromagnetic activity of obsolete circuit boards and the telecommunication systems around us into audible material.
We’ll use this method as a way to perceptualize the dense complexity of digital devices in our everyday life – making the invisible tangible through sound. Working with coils, antennas, radios, and light-sensitive circuits, participants will discover how discarded electronics and ambient electromagnetic fields become sonic instruments.
No prior electronics experience needed – the focus is on exploration, listening, and collective improvisation rather than circuit-building. Working in small groups at different instrument stations, we’ll experiment with these invisible phenomena, then bring everything together through a common mixer to create a collaborative piece. We may develop simple graphic scores to guide our improvisation.
This is about discovering sound in unexpected places, making music with electronic waste and forces we can’t see but can definitely hear.
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Ósýnileg hljóð: Að skapa tónlist með rafsegulsviði
Getum við heyrt í rafsegullandslaginu sem umlykur okkur? Á námskeiðinu læra þátttakendur að umbreyta ósýnilegum rafsegulmerkjum í hljóð og tónlist. Með því að nota spólur, loftnetum og útvarpstækni er rafsegulvirkni úreltrar rafeindatækni og fjarskiptakerfa fönguð og henni breytt í lifandi hljóðheim.
Þátttakendur vinna saman í litlum hópum, gera tilraunir með rafsegulsvið og hljóðblöndun og skapa sameiginlegt hljóðverk þar sem hið ósýnilega verður heyranlegt. Engin fyrri reynsla af rafeindatækni er nauðsynleg – aðeins forvitni, hlustun og sköpunargleði.
Komdu og uppgötvaðu tónlist á óvæntum stöðum – í kraftinum sem við sjáum ekki, en getum heyrt.
Hátíðin RAFLOST fer fram í Elliðaárstöð 15. nóvember. Í tengslum við hátíðina verða haldnar þrjár rafhljóðasmiðjur.
Steinunn Eldflaug Harðardóttir sýnir þátttakendum hvernig hægt er að búa til hljóð í hljóðgervli (syntha) og láta hjóðið hafa áhrif á myndir og form í tölvu.
⚡Fyrir 9-14 ára
⏰ 11:00-14:00 15.nóv
🔔12 pláss, skráðu þig hér : https://ellidaarstod.is/vidburdur/raflost-rafhljodamyndasmidja/
Gerðu tilraunir með söng-effekta (skreytingar á rödd með delay pedal og öðrum effektum) og skoðaðu vídeó-vörpun og tengsl á milli hljóðs og myndar.
Notast verður við Unreal Engine 5 leikjavélina, syntha, hljóðnema og effekta.
👉Þau sem eiga lítil hljómborð eða rafhljóðfæri mega koma með þau með sér.
Spennandi námskeið fyrir öll. Engin krafa um tónlistarnám eða fyrri reynslu, bara áhugi og sköpunargleði.
Smiðjan fer fram á milli kl. 11-14 og í beinu framhaldi hefst opnunardagskrá RAFLOST í Elliðaárstöð með fjölbreyttri dagskrá.
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Steinunn Eldflaug hefur vakið athygli fyrir óvenjulega nálgun á raftónlist þar sem hún blandar saman raftónlist, fjölbreyttum söngaðferðum, sagnahefð og skrautlegri vídeóvörpun Hún blandar saman tónlist, myndlist og forritun á spennandi hátt og leitar nýrra leiða við listsköpun á mörkum þessara heima. Hún hefur spilað furðu-raftónlist sína víða um lönd undir listamannsnafninu dj. flugvél og geimskip og hlotið góðar viðtökur.
http://djflugveloggeimskip.com
14th – 16th of November
Friday 14.nov.
HAFNAR.HAUS at 20:00
Performance and installations by .HAUS members.
Guðmundur Vignir Karlsson and Heimir Freyr Hlöðversson
Saturday 15.nov
ELLIÐAÁRSTÖÐ at 14:00
RAFLOST Opening
Exhibition of Workshop Projects // Afrakstur úr vinnusmiðjum/námskeiðum
Leiðbeinendur: Jesper Pedersen, Stefanos Skialivas og Steinunn Eldflaug
ELLIÐAÁRSTÖÐ at 14:30
An Endless Game? – Camilla Söderberg
ELLIÐAÁRSTÖÐ at 14:45
Another Ghost in the Imaginary Machine – Stefanos Skialivas
ELLIÐAÁRSTÖÐ at 15:30
Þórunn Björnsdóttir and Árni Valur Kristinsson
ELLIÐAÁRSTÖÐ at 16:45
Villta ljós – Kira Kira
HAFNAR.HAUS at 19:00 – 23:00
Spider~Network take-over
16.nóv sunnudagur
ELLIÐAÁRSTÖÐ at 11:00-17:00
installations by Þórunn Björnsdóttir and Árni Valur Kristinsson
HAFNARHAUS at 14:00
installation by Emma Shannon, waffles, hot chocolate and electronic music by Hilmar Þórðarson and Tom Manoury
HAFNARHAUS at 15:00-15:43
Völuspá – Helgi Pétursson
í Borgarbókasafninu, Gerðubergi. 23.nóvember 2024 , klukkan 13:00-15:00.
City Library, Gerðuberg. 23rd of november, 1 PM – 3 PM // english below
Leiðbeinendur/Worshop leaders: Sam Rees & Jesper Pedersen
REGISTER HERE: https://borgarbokasafn.is/vidburdir/born/fribud-dotabudin-velmennasmidja
FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/events/969920294899120/
Fyrir krakka og ungt fólk. Hámark 16 þátttakendur.
Bókun á vef Borgarbókasafnsins: https://borgarbokasafn.is/vidburdir/born/fribud-dotabudin-velmennasmidja
Á þessu skemmtilega og skapandi námskeiði verður gömlum rafmagnsleikföngum breytt í spennandi hljóðfæri og teiknivélar með einföldum tökkum og tólum. Með því að taka leikföngin í sundur og setja saman aftur á nýjan hátt munu þátttakendur á þessu námskeiði búa til ný hljóð og einstök teiknimynstur.
Leiðbeinendurnir hvetja til verklegra tilrauna og munu virkja ímyndunaraflið. Þáttakendur þurfa ekki að kunna neitt, bara hafa áhuga á skrýtnum og sérstæðum hlutum, eins og hvernig mótorar og leikföng geta breyst í framandi og flott listaverk.
Íris eru glæsileg og falleg, hentug til garðyrkju og hafa mikið skrautgildi.
Á námskeiðinu læra þátttakendur að:
Það má koma með sín eigin ónothæfu rafmagnsleikföng til að taka í sundur eða nota dót sem verður á staðnum.
Um Sam samkvæmt ChatGPT
Sam Rees er breskur listamaður búsettur á Íslandi. Hann er þekktur fyrir að skapa gagnvirk listaverk úr fundnum hlutum, sérstaklega leikfangarobótum sem hann umbreytir til að mynda flóknar, sögudrifnar senur. Verkin hans eru blanda af DIY-menningu og súrrealískum frásögnum. Sam hefur kennt gagnvirka miðla við Listaháskóla Íslands frá 2014 og vinnur mikið með jaðar- og lo-fi list sem endurspeglar áhuga hans á verkum sem brjóta upp hefðbundin menningarmynstur
Um Jesper samkvæmt ChatGPT
Jesper Pedersen er íslenskur listamaður og tónskáld sem vinnur með innsetningar, blandaða miðla og hljóðlist. Verk hans kanna oft samspil tækni og náttúru, með sérstakri áherslu á rafræna tónlist og hljóðheim. Hann er þekktur fyrir nýstárlega notkun tækni og efnis sem brýtur upp hefðbundin listform. Pedersen hefur einnig unnið með hljóðverkum í tengslum við hljóðfæri eins og mótúlarsamstæður og sameinar sjónræna list við tónsmíðar
For kids and young people. Maximum 16 participants
Register here: https://borgarbokasafn.is/vidburdir/born/fribud-dotabudin-velmennasmidja
In this fun and creative workshop, kids will learn how to transform old toy robots into exciting instruments and drawing machines using simple tools and switches. By taking apart the robots and reassembling them with new functions, participants will create devices that make sounds or draw unique patterns.
This workshop encourages hands-on exploration and imagination, with no prior experience needed. Through playful experimentation, kids will discover how mechanical parts like motors and gears can be repurposed to make their own interactive creations.
What you’ll learn:
What to bring: Any old or broken toy robots you’d like to repurpose (optional), or use the scrap materials provided.
About Sam according to ChatGPT
Sam Rees is an anti-disciplinary artist and educator currently teaching at the Iceland University of the Arts. With a background in interactive media and a strong focus on robotics, electronics, and creative coding, Sam’s practice blends art and technology to create interactive installations and workshops. Their work often explores themes of sustainability, play, and repurposing materials, encouraging a hands-on, experimental approach to making.
About Jesper according to ChatGPT
Jesper Pedersen is a composer, sound artist, and educator specializing in electronic and experimental music. Currently teaching new media composition at the Iceland University of the Arts and Computer Music at the Kópavogur College of Music, exploring innovative approaches to sound and technology in contemporary music.
Airplane & Spaceship
Electronic musician from outer space
dj. flugvél og geimskip (Airplane & Spaceship) is the one-person orchestra of Steinunn Hardardottir that draws influences from a thousand worlds. Defined as psychedelic electronic dance-music from outer space, the music is a mix of playful beats, cool bass, catchy melodies and unusual vocals. Her live performances are highly memorable and the music deals with alien worlds, mysteries, and surrealistic dreams. Her concerts are a strange blend of music, storytelling, poetry, and theater. The audience is left feeling like they are in a vivid dream or have traveled to outer space. dj. flugvél og geimskip has released three full length albums. Two of her albums won the Icelandic Kraumur Music Awards, her album Our Atlantis was nominated as the best electronic album of 2019 at the Icelandic Music Awards and her album Nótt á hafsbotni was nominated as the Best Pop Album at the Icelandic Music Awards 2015 and received raving reviews from both Uncut and The Arts Desk amongst others.
“Utterly charming and hugely entertaining, she could have taught The Knife a thing or two about staging and The Flaming Lips that spectacle can also work on an intimate scale.”
-The Arts Desk
“Sometimes an artist’s recorded output cannot adequately prepare you for the experience of seeing them live, and Iceland’s dj. flugvél og geimskip is the perfect example. She bounces onto the stage looking like a cross between Lauren Mayberry and Björk, her pile of synths decorated with gold streamers and topped off with a color-changing disco-ball-light-thing. What follows almost feels like a piece of performance art – dj. flugvél taking on the role of a bizarre storyteller, spinning wonky electronica into tales of evil cats, deals with the devil, spaceships, being cloned by aliens and I swear to God I’m not making this up. She’s quite clearly in a world of her own, but dj. flugvél og geimskip is very accommodating of visitors, so you might as well stay a while.”
-Drowned in Sound
Music:
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/artist/1o2bSYi5f5sNMAzxwjvwol?si=_TJSFE6yTaCKIf0b1dZ9zQ
Silfrún Una Guðlaugsdóttir’s works reflect a fascination with man-made sounds and the sincerity within them, often appearing as sound installations, performances or video works.
She is curious about the spectrum of the voice, how it can be used to tell stories through song, mimicking instruments, machines, foley sounds or by humming your favourite tune.
Her artistic process revolves around the interaction of sounds, movements and objects, drawing inspiration from soundpoetry.
Alongside her practice she collaborates with Tara Njála Ingvarsdóttir, forming the performance duo Tara and Silla. The main themes of their works are friendship, social situations and celebration, which appear mainly in the form of installations, performances and/or video works.
Silfrún’s works along with the works of the duo Tara and Silla have been exhibited in Kling og Bang, Ásmundarsalur, Kjarvalsstaðir, Nýlistasafnið, Harbinger and group exhibitions in The Hague, and Vienna.
Silfrún Una graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in fine arts from the Iceland University of the Arts in 2020.
At Raflost she will present a new performance called: They couldn’t help but to try and scratch in the same rhythm
Performers are: Hákon Bragason, Mio Storåsen, Kjartan Almar Kárason and Sölvi Halldórsson.
The First LOVE FM Synthesizer
Nýtt íslenskt fyrirtæki; Love Synthesizers er nú í óðaönn að undirbúa framleiðslu á sínum fyrsta hljóðgervli. Hann heitir First Love (Fyrsta ástin) og notast við FM aðferð til að skapa hljóð. FM hljóðgervill virkar þannig að ein hljóðbylgja hefur áhrif á aðra og úr verður nýtt hljóð. Þessi aðferð við hljóðgerð hefur hingað til verið flókin og margir því ekki nýtt sér að fullu möguleika FM við gerð tónlistar og hljóðhönnunar.
Okkur hjá Love langar að breyta nálguninni á FM með okkar nýja hljóðfæri og gera hana aðgengilegri. Við leggjum okkur fram um að búa til einfaldan og skemmtilegan hljóðgervil sem bæði er góður í að búa til hljóð, skemmtilegur og hljómfagur.
Tónlistar-og myndlistarmaðurinn Steinunn Eldflaug Harðardóttir, einnig þekkt sem dj. flugvél og geimskip, varð óvart hluti af hópnum á sem stendur að gerð First Love hljóðgervilsins og hefur tekið þátt í hönnunarferlinu og farið ásamt Love FM á tvær alþjóðlegar ráðstefnur að kynna hann fyrir almenningi sem og fólki innan ,,bransans”. Hún mun sýna okkur hvernig hljóðgervillinn virkar og gera sitt besta til að sýna fram á að FM getur í alvörunni verið einföld og skemmtileg aðferð við tónlistar og hljóðhönnunar. Einnig mun hún sýna hvernig hún nýtir sér synthann í sinni tónlist og segja frá aðkomu sinni að verkefninu, sem og að svara spurningum.
https://www.lovesynthesizers.com/about
ENGLISH
The FIRST LOVE synthesizer has an engaging interactive interface on a 7″ touchscreen with real-time graphics as well as hardware controls that shape the output of its sound generating module. It gives unprecedented real-time control over the intricate variables of an FM synthesizer in a fast-flowing user friendly manner.
Schedule
SATURDAY 23rd of NOVEMBER
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13:00 – 15:00 Dótabúðin-Robot Workshop – Reykjavik City Library, Gerðuberg, Breiðholt
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16:00 – 18:00 Opening / Performance – Hafnarhaus, Tryggvagata 17
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20:00 – 22:00 Concert – Hafnarhaus, Tryggvagata 17
Helgi Pétursson (1962) útskrifaðist úr Tónfræðadeild Tónlistarskólans í Reykjavík þar sem kennarar hans í tónsmíðum voru Þorkell Sigurbjörnsson Atli Heimir Sveinsson og Þorsteinn Hauksson. Síðar lauk hann einnig MA námi í Microtechnology in Music Education frá University of Reading.
Á námsárum Helga var töluvert af verkum hans flutt opinberlaga, þar á meðal rafverk og einnig voru flutt eftir hann verk eftir að hann lauk námi, meðal annars á þeim árum sem hann var starfandi sem tónlistarkennari á Húsavík. Helgi hefur mjög lengi haft mjög mikinn áhuga á raf og tölvutónlist og einnig á tölvutækni almennt og starfaði hann um árabil sem forritari.
Eftir að hann hætti sem starfandi tólistarmaður lá tónsköpun hans að mestu niðri en nú hefur hann tekið upp þráðinn að nýju með verkinu Blindfugl/Svartflug. Blindfugl/Svartflug er samið í júní 2024 og er byggt á samnefndu ljóði Gyrðis Elíassonar frá 1986 sem Helgi les í heild í gegnum verkið.
Hugmyndin að þessu verki er mjög gömul því það hafði verið draumur Helga að gera þetta verk nánast alveg síðan hann heyrði Gyrði lesa ljóðið upp í útvarpi fljótlega eftir að það kom út. Það hafði mjög sterk áhrif á hann. Verkið má segja að sé viðleitni til þess að undirstrika þau hughrif og stemmingu sem ljóðið vekur með margbreytilegum hljóðheim og búa þannig til nokkurs konar hljóðmynd með ljóðinu.
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Helgi Pétursson (1962) graduated from the Department of Theory and Composition at the Reykjavík Conservatory of Music where his teachers in composition were Þorkell Sigurbjörnsson, Atli Heimir Sveinsson and Þorsteinn Hauksson. Later he also completed an MA degree in Microtechnology in Music Education from the University of Reading, UK. During Helgi’s student years, quite a few of his works were performed in public, including electronic works and works by him were also performed after he finished his studies, including the years when he was employed as a music teacher in Húsavík.
Helgi has for a very long time been very interested in electronic and computer music and also in computer technology in general, and he worked for several years as a computer programmer. After he retired as a working musician, his composition was mostly stopped, but now he has picked up the thread again with the piece Blindfugl/Svartflug.
Blindfugl/Svartflug was written in June 2024 and is based on a poem of the same name by Gyrðir Elíasson from 1986 which Helgi reads in its entirety throughout the piece. The idea for this piece is very old because it had been Helgi’s dream to make this piece almost ever since he heard Gyrðir read the poem on the radio soon after it was released. It had a very strong effect on the composer. The piece can be said to be an attempt to emphasize the impressions and moods that the poem evokes using a varied sound world and thus create a kind of sound painting of the poem.
Deepa R. Iyengar kannar rými til að uppgötva í þeim hvað vantar, er ósýnilegt eða óraungert. Verkin myndast oft sem innsetningar þar sem hún setur fram orkuna, upplýsingarnar eða möguleikana sem leynast í tómum rýmum eða þögnum. Viðfangsefni hennar tengjast oft valdi, stjórn og frelsun.
Deepa er með M.A.-gráðu í myndlist frá Listaháskóla Íslands. Hún er búsett á Íslandi, þó upprunalega frá Bandaríkjunum, þar sem hún lauk S.M. (M.Sc.) í heila- og hugvísindum frá Massachusetts Institute of Technology, og B.A. í eðlisfræði og stjörnufræði frá Carleton College.
Deepa hefur tekið þátt í einka- og samsýningum á Íslandi, í Bandaríkjunum og Litháen. Hér á landi hefur hún sýnt verk meðal annars á Listasafni Reykjavíkur – Hafnarhúsi, Kling&Bang, Ásmundarsal (sem hluti af listamannasafninu D.N.A ), og Nýlistasafninu.
Á hátíðinn mun Deepa kynna nýtt verk sem hún kallar SÍÐASTA HLJÓÐIÐ
Hljóð var fyrsta efnissamspil alheims, þrýstibylgjur sem þenjast út í 400.000 ár áður en ljósið skein. Hljóð er yfirgripsmikið, alltumlykjandi, margvítt, summa efnisupplifunar sem mótar og mótast af rýminu sem það breiðist út í og flötunum og áferðunum sem það mætir. Hljóð tengir það-sem-hefur-verið við það-sem-er-að-skella-á, endurómar dýpstu eðlishvöt mannsins, kallar á viðbrögð hvort sem það er til góðs eða ills; til sáttar eða stjórnunnar; til að gleðja eða afvegaleiða, pynta. Hversu langt þar til við sigrumst á hljóðrófinu öllu? Og hversu langt þar til það leiðir til loka okkar? Og séu það lokin, hvað tekur við? Algjör þögn? Eða mun hljóð halda áfram að óma með þunga þess sem var: vera síðast, sem það var fyrst?
Frekari upplýsingar er að finna með því að skanna QR kóðann
Deepa R. Iyengar explores spaces in order to discover within them what is missing, invisible, or unrealized. Her preoccupation with the hidden manifests in installations which are dominated by loaded silences of space or time. Frequently her topics have to do with power, control, and liberation.
Deepa has participated in various solo and group shows in Iceland, Lithuania, and the U.S. In Iceland, some of the places she has shown are Reykjavík Art Museum (Hafnarhús), Kling&Bang, The Living Art Museum, and Ásmundarsalur (Gryfjan) as part of the artist collective D.N.A.
Deepa holds an M.A. degree in Fine Art from the Iceland University of the Arts. She is a resident of Iceland, though originally from the U.S., where she attained an M.Sc. in Brain and Cognitive Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a B.A. in Physics and Astronomy from Carleton College.
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At Raflost Deepa will show new work she calls THE LAST SOUND
Sound was the first material interaction of our universe, pressure waves expanding outward for 400,000 years before the universe became transparent to light. Sound is pervasive, omnipresent, multidimensional, a sum of material experiences molding and being molded by the space in which it propagates and the surfaces and textures it encounters. Sound connects what-has-been to what-is-about-to-happen, resonating with the deepest instincts in humans, calling for response whether for good or for evil; for harmony or for control; to bring joy or to disorient, manipulate, torture. How long before we conquer the whole sonic spectrum? And how long before that leads to our end? And if there is an end, what then? Absolute silence? Or will sound continue to resonate with the weight of what was: to be last, as it was first?
For the audio sources follow this qr code
Ægir er trommari og tilraunatónlistarmaður frá Reykjavík. Í janúar 2020 frumflutti hann einyrkjaverkefni sitt, þar sem hann kannar nýjar hljómlendur með hjálp safns gítarfetla og annarra hljóðbreytitækja; fyrst um sinn bakvið trommusett en í seinni tíð hefur hann nýtt sér í auknum mæli breiðara úrval hljóðefna (rödd og hringóm spila þar stóra rullu).
Hann hefur gefið út 8 sólóplötur undanfarin fjögur ár, hver þeirra heimur út af fyrir sig.
Á Raflost mun Ægir flytja hljóð/myndverkið BRIDGES for breathing disaster ásamt bróður sínum, Óðni Degi. Óðinn hefur áður forritað myndefni fyrir tónleika Ægis – en í þetta skiptið byggði hann heim sem hann mun kanna, beygla og bjaga í rauntíma, meðan Ægir gerir slíkt hið sama með hljóð.
ENGLISH
Ægir is a drummer and experimental musician from Reykjavík. January 2020 saw the debut of his solo project, where he explores new sonic avenues with the help of a collection of guitar pedals and other sound-manipulating devices; initially from behind the drum kit, lately using and abusing a wider variety of sound sources (voice and feedback play big roles).
He has released 8 solo albums over the last four years, each one a world of its own.
At Raflost, Ægir will perform the audio/visual work BRIDGES for breathing disaster together with his brother, Óðinn Dagur. Óðinn has previously programmed audio-reactive visuals for Ægir’s live shows – but this time he built a world that he will explore, mangle and distort in real time, while Ægir does the same with sound.
”the result of thought operating on noise”
Monument of failed attempts to approach truth through thinking.
Pedestal, speaker, big red button, excerpt of Jiddu Krishnamurti public talk (Saanen, 1979). Words. Silences.
Danish musician, composer and sound artist
Located in Reykjavik, Iceland
Live Coding Workshop hosted by the City Library. Free!
REGISTER HERE:
https://borgarbokasafn.is/event/learning/live-coding-beginners-strudel
Live coding is the creation of art and music by writing and changing computer programs while they run live, normally in view of the audience. In the last few decades, this practice has emerged as a dynamic creative discipline, gaining attention across cultural and technical fields—from music and the visual arts to computer science. In live coding the composition happens in realtime, where performers can communicate via sound, visuals, robotic and human movements, or basically anything that can be controlled. In performance the code is often projected on a screen for the audience to follow.
In this introductory workshop participants will get hands-on experience working with the popular browser-based live coding platform Strudel. The workshop will be led by Jack Armitage and Sigríður Birna Matthíasdóttir from the Intelligent Instruments Lab.
Participants ages 16 and older from all backgrounds are welcome, no coding experience is necessary. Please note the workshop will be held in English, and there are only 12 seats available. Participants must bring their own laptop / computer, although a limited number of on-site computers will be provided upon request.
At the end of the workshop at 15:30, participants are invited to share their ideas to help kickoff a new Live Coding Meetup, an open space for artists and programmers of all abilities and backgrounds to meet regularly, work on individual projects or collaborations, and learn about new technologies and practices. The meetup, launching this fall at the library, is a chance for participants to review and share live coding skills, as well as to dive even deeper into Strudel and other topics of interest.
The program for this workshop is as follows:
12:00-15:30: Introduction to live coding using Strudel TidalCycles
15:30-16:00: Live Coding Meetup kickoff
For more information about the international live coding community, see TOPLAP (https://toplap.org/) and Algorave (https://algorave.com/).
More on Strudel and TidalCycles: https://strudel.tidalcycles.org/
For more information regarding the workshop:
Karl James Pestka (he/him)
Project Manager — Makerspace
karl.james.pestka@reykjavik.is | +354 665 0898
Owen (he/him) is a collaborative digital artist, working with software, sound, and electronics for the web, VR, performances, devices and installations.
His commercial work has included serving as technical lead on large, cutting-edge projects for clients such as Oculus Studios, Google, Microsoft/Xbox, Samsung and Mercedes, collaborating with digital creatives such as Universal Everything, FIELD and B-Reel. These projects have ranged from an interactive web-connected musical installation at the London Science Museum for Google, Web Lab, to a pneumatic live-streamed pinata-smashing robot.
He is co-founder of Huldufugl, a Reykjavik-based theatre and events company experimenting with new mediums in theatre, both technological and immersive.
He is also co-founder of Horizons Studio, a London-based creative studio producing interactive musical experiences in VR. Their debut title, Horizons VR was commissioned by Google as a launch title for their Daydream platform, with releases on Oculus and HTC platforms planned for 2019.
He was also Sound Supervisor and on-set sound recordist on two short independent films, The Fallow Field and Who We Are, and sound editor on the Subsource Dubumentary.
A audio-visual collaboration between sound artist Þorsteinn Eyfjörð and digital artist Owen Hindley. It will be their first time working together as a duo to create an immersive audio-visual experience consisting of choral-esque laments, field recordings and infra-bass married to LIDAR-inspired point cloud structures, geometric ruminations on the space that exists between light and shadow.
The performance will involve two tall blokes, live audio manipulation, projected visuals, lighting design and possibly turtlenecks.
https://cargocollective.com/teyfjord
https://linktr.ee/owenhindley
MC MYASNOI is a Russian born, Iceland based band/collective that’s been a part of the Reykjavík grassroots collective Post-Dreifing for the past years.
Their current music can be described as deconstructed electronic music from outer space but things can always move in a completely different direction before you even notice.
Recently the band has been collaborating with exciting artists to establish a new visual aspect in their live set in the form of costumes and visuals.
“MC MYASNOI is guiding the masses through a cathartic, communal experience” — Studentablaðið
Prepare yourself for mental death & rebirth.
YOUR LOCAL ELECTRICITY WITCH: Dalin WaldoOoOoOoo an esoteric engineering enthusiast, one of the founders of the neo-fluxus anti-art movement Nægtularism with a big heart for old soviet synthesizers. She/he/they has an x-pertise in eloptic engineering and uses this knowledge in designing more organismic synthesizer interfaces together with SOMA Laboratory. She/he/they is the designer of The Ethermorphic FM Analyzer and the ENNER synthesizer. Which are both machines that can transmit your direct emotional energy and make the operator become a part of the circuitry, becoming one self an Emotional Machine Activator indeed, indeed. X-citing!
Can synthesizers transmit emotional energy, the so-called “eloptic energy”? Can we consider improvisation as a way of conversing with our synthesizers? – and can we build synthesizers in the future based on the understanding of eloptic energy? Thoughts about esoteric engineering, deep listening and the aesthetic of electricity. Followed up by a presentation of the ENNER synthesizer project.
Mikael Lind is an electronic musician that has released many albums under his own name, and in collaboration with among others Hoshiko Yamane from Tangerine Dream and the cellist Johanna Sjunnesson from Radiosymfonikerna. He has also composed sound pieces for visual art, most recntly the exhibition Andardráttur á glugga in Ásmundarsafn. His music is often ambient with an experimental side, but for RAFLOST he will perform a new piece with emphasis on experiments.
sideproject is an electronic music trio from Reykjavik, Iceland. In the last year they contributed beat programming to Björk’s “Fossora” , as well as releasing an official remix of the single “Atopos” .
With an equal focus on studio work and live performances, the trio have been working hard at a new LP as well as performing a new live set.
They have been very active in the local Reykjavik scene, organizing concerts and parties as well as releasing albums, with their 2021 release “radio vatican ep” winning the electronic album of the year at the Icelandic music awards and their most recent project being the 2022 EP “kingfisher” .
Their music is characterized by heavy, fast-paced, intricate beats and textured, flowing synths. stealing from everyone and everywhere, sideproject’s music becomes a cryptic mix of electronic influences.
Possimiste is a lucid dreamer who brings songs into this world from other galactic dimensions she visits. This explains the stellar essence of that catchy pop dedicated to humankind.
Possimiste’s debut album “Youniverse” was released in summer 2021 and has brought the artist numerous awards, such as “Best Female Act” at X977 “Sykurmolinn 2020”, “European Emerging Band 2021” winner, one of the most notable albums of 2021 by The Reykjavík Grapevine, and “Album of the Year” by Musica Islandese Italia.
At RAFLOST, she will join forces with Tálsýn visuals to take you on a special trip through numerous galaxies.
This year we will host short workshops in collaboration with Hafnar.Haus , a new creative space in the center of Reykjavík.
The workshops will be on Saturday the 20th of May and Sunday the 21st. Click the links for details and descriptions.
Workshop #1 – TouchDesigner / Saturday 20th / Owen Hindley / 10-15 / food / presentation at 17 / 6000isk FULL! send a message to workshop@raflost.is to be on the waiting list
Workshop #2 – Extra workshop / Sunday 21st / announced very soon 🙂
Making Live Visuals In TouchDesigner
Owen Hindley
We’ll be looking at how to create fun real-time visual machines in TouchDesigner that you can use for VJ performances, installations, or creating motion graphics.
The workshop will be aimed at people who have some experience and/or interest in image making or visual spectacle – be it drawing, graphic design, video, lighting, stop motion or just wearing a really colourful shirt.
We will aim to cover some or all of the following :
To end the workshop, we’ll put on a brief sharing for Raflost guests in the style of a Bring Your Own Beamer event (byobworldwide.com), where we take over a room with a bunch of projectors and cover every available space with moving images.
You will need to bring :
(Please make sure you run it once before coming to the workshop, to make sure it actually starts up)
Date: 20th of May.
Time:
Location: Hafnar.haus, Hafnarhúsinu, Tryggvagötu 17, Reykjavík
Registration: fill out this registration form
Fee: 6000 krónur
Language: English
Participants: max 12
The RAFLOST festival will be held on the 19-20th of May.
Please send art performance suggestions to aki@raflost.is
José Luis Anderson, Freya Dinesen, Snorri Beck Magnússon
Interactive performance using fruit as sound controllers, with background video projection and backing track
Kári Guðmundsson, Guðlaugur Hörðal Einarsson, Daniel Örn Heimisson, Ana Luisa Diaz de Cossio
Decompartmentalization | Hlutskipti is a work that incorporates visual and audio elements that highlight the workshops from the different departments at LHI. This work explores the compartmentalization, separation and lack of collaboration that we have experienced between the departments. By combining audio and video from all the buildings, we create a reality where everybody exists together.
Jónína Alfreðsdóttir, Óskar ใor Arngrimsson, Khetsin Chuchan og Jóhannes Patreksson
We recorded a chess game and had assigned notes to each checker and rules to each chess piece for certain effects which would trigger by the choices made in the game. The video was recorded and edited by Khetsin- it’s a video and audio art piece.
Robin Morabito, Starri Holm, Stefania Palsdottir, Torfi Tomasson
An experience where you feel anxiety during the worst zoom call of your life.
CLICK HERE FOR LOGIN INFORMATION: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WS-gmjAEvntQ4TQnqc-eJoqMhz1kYAXT8n20Pb4Hs3o/edit?usp=sharing
Lee Lynch’s YouTube Folk Anthology is a selection of songs by artists whose music is exhibited and proliferated on YouTube. The project is inspired by The Anthology of American Folk Music, a six volume set produced by Harry’s Smith (1923-1991) a New York based experimental filmmaker who had been collecting folk music and field recordings since he was a teenager. For Raflost’s 2021 edition Lee has created a limited edition set of vinyls for his Volume One edition “Songs of Affirmation and Unrequited Love”, a collection of favorite tracks that he and his fellow artist Christian Cummings have discovered on YouTube over the last decade. The vinyls are in an addition of 5 with covers that feature handmade artwork of a still from Harry Smith’s unfinished 35mm collage animation The Tin Woodman’s Dream. On Sunday at 15:00 at 12 Tónar Lee will be giving a talk on the project as well as screening the videos from the songs featured on the album.
Raised in Redding, California, Lee Lorenzo Lynch (1980) has been making films and art since the age of 13. He holds a BFA in Film from California Institute of the Arts and an MFA in Fine Art from the University of Southern California. His films have been exhibited at FIDMarseille, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Full Frame, The Viennale, Tribeca, and Sundance.
Ella Fleck (www.ella.zone) is an artist and writer living and working from Derbyshire U.K. Working often with people, performance and sometimes digital tools, she thinks about different ways to nurture social practice and play in a digitally dominant world. Ella co-founded and is facilitating DARP (Derbyshire Artist Resident Program – www.darp.media). In 2018 she co-founded 650mAh in Hove, U.K (www.650mah.com). She has written for Frieze, Art Et Al and Dazed. Ella is also 50% of @ellaandJaana on OnlyFans, a digital self portrait playground that she updates semi-regularly with Jaana Kristiina Alakoski. She currently spends her time drawing, roleplaying, writing and making small browser projects.
After running Dating Sim as a one-on-one performance game on zoom, Ella has adapted Dating Sim to be performed as a role-play love poem between her, her computer and an audience.
Egill Sæbjörnsson’s video installations consist of real objects, projected video images, often self generative and combined with arduino technology, and sound. He has also a large bulk of work in both performance and music writing. His work can be perceived as a technological continuation of painting and sculpture. Recently curator Hans-Ulrich Obrist described them as an augmented reality work without using the glasses. Egill’s Sæbjörnsson’s work often make us confused and surprised and leads us to pose ontological questions, doing so in a way that both he and we enjoy. His works are known for their lightness and humour and are of an experiential nature, often requiring neither instructions nor education in order to be understood, yet with an underlying seriousness and thought. In his book Stones according to Egill Sæbjörnsson he proposes the idea that art is a species that coexists with humans in symbiotic way. The relationship between what is called mind and physical reality is of great importance in his work. And how emotions, fantasy and reality connect. In 2017 Egill Sæbjörnsson represented Iceland at the Biennale Arte 2017 in Venice, where he let two imaginary friends, the 36 meter tall, people eating trolls, Ugh & Boogar, take over the exhibition concept. His public art piece for the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin is the first permanent, self generative video installation in an outdoor space in Germany. Last year he was nominated for the Ars Fennica Art Price in Finland. Egill Sæbjörnsson studied new media at the Icelandic College of Arts & Crafts in Iceland 1993 – 1997 and in Paris VIII StDenis from 1995 – 1996.
With a background in game design, film directing and archaeology, Isdrake has covered the span of human and technological development, learning from the past to diversify the future through creative actions. Isdrake is also the founder of the game innovation lab Collaboratory and the game art gallery Epic Unidragon.
Researching the bias in technology and solutions for equity, empowerment and freedom of diverse identities is at the core of their work, currently focused on cyborg art, metaverses and body modifications as voice.
Isdrake will give an insight to their work and open up for dialogue and collaboration with the participants.
„Eins og raftækjaruslahaugar heimsins bera vitni um þá hlaðast vonir gærdagsins upp allt í kringum okkur. Það væri fávísi að afskrifa allt sem þar liggur í nafni herskárrar hugmyndafræði sem krefst eilífs vaxtar. Þess vegna heillar skapandi notkun úreltrar tækni mig. Það er ekki sökum nostalgíu heldur því úrsérgengin er tæknin loks frjáls undan upprunalegu hlutverki sínu. Hún er öðru fremur vettvangur leikgleði, tilrauna og fegurðar, með afskaplega takmarkaða möguleika til að þjónusta efnahaginn. Þar búa róttækir möguleikar hennar: hún hafnar gildismati fjármagnsins og reynir að skapa merkingu eða hughrif úr því sem er verðlaust.“
Atli Bollason er listamaður og nautnaseggur sem býr í Reykjavík.
Hákon Bragason graduated from Iceland University of the Arts with a degree in visual art in 2019 and has since held private exhibitions, participated in various projects and regularly participated in group exhibitions. He mostly works with interactive installations, virtual reality and mixing of craftsmanship, machinery and digital parts. The fundamental factors in his works are mostly based on the position of the individual versus the surroundings, experience and perception.
Hákon Bragason útskrifaðist úr myndlist frá Listaháskóla Íslands vorið 2019 og hefur síðan þá haldið einkasýningar, tekið þátt í ýmislegum verkefnum auk þess að taka reglulega þátt í samsýningum. Hann vinnur aðalega með gagnvirkar innsetningar, sýndaveruleika og samblöndun handverks, véla og stafrænna þátta. Grunnþættir verka hans byggjast aðalega á stöðu einstaklings gagnvart umhverfi sínu, upplifun og skynjun.
SÚL_VAD is an ongoing collaborative project between visual artist Ásdís Birna Gylfadóttir (1993) and composer Ragnheiður Erla Björnsdóttir (1993).
Growing up together in a small town in Iceland, their friendship, passions, interests and ideas were shaped by the freedom of their natural surroundings as much as they were influenced by the limitations of their environment. The duo’s unique way of collaborating and creating work together, while living in different countries for the past 6 years, has led to multiple different projects. Their artistic collaboration began when they created the audiovisual performance Ymur, premiering at the European audio and art festival Tut Töt Tuð in the Netherlands in 2017. Since then, their work has been presented at various exhibitions and events in Sweden, Austria, Iceland and The Netherlands.
Their work is experimental and observational, using video and audio as a means to collect information and material as well as communicating ideas to each other – resulting in interesting installation works and performances where the two mediums blend together. It explores the relations and opposites between the visual and the auditory, the natural and the superficial. It focuses on the seen, the heard, the felt elements of the world around us and gives new perspectives and roles to borrowed natural elements. Taking inspiration from the visible and hidden world of Icelandic nature, the contrast between human nature and nature, the weather and stories from their grandparents, amongst other things, each work is an autonomous result of their collaborative research of various perspectives and topics important to the artists, including social issues, human behaviour, and the spiritual mind to name a few.
HELIO
Awakening is grasping,
is rising is becoming.
A single word has multiple meanings. Round and around, a constant circular movement. A circle has no beginning, no end. The Earth keeps moving around the Sun.
Resisting is noticing,
is trying is digesting.
Silence is the loudest with no one around. Our surroundings shape us and restrain us. The mind reacts and the body acts.
Imitating is observing,
is attracting is connecting.
A single emotion is far and near. Thoughts connect us and thoughts separate us. We learn from doing, from seeing, from hearing, our senses are tools leading us through.
Repelling is pushing,
is forcing is exploding.
No reaction is right, no reaction is wrong. Nobody has full control. We are nature and nature is us.
Raging is punching,
is struggling is objecting.
A single feeling has multiple explanations. Eye contact is human contact, connecting and disconnecting. Frustration is a force.
Accepting is surrendering,
is complying is resting.
A single word has multiple meanings. Round and around, a constant circular movement. A circle has no beginning, no end. The Moon keeps moving around the Earth, round and around.
Credit:
Dancers: Gabriel Marling Rideout, Marikki Nyfors, Sóley Ólafsdóttir.
3D scans by Arna Beth.
About the work:
Helio is an audiovisual installation piece. The visual part of the work is a result of graphic notation research by visual artist Ásdís Birna Gylfadóttir. Through a collaboration with dancers Gabriel Marling Rideout, Marikki Nyfors and Sóley Ólafsdóttir, she has developed a unique dance notation system inspired by topographic maps.
The performance embodies the eternal cyclic movement of existence, inspired by the Earth’s orbit with the dancers moving in a constant circular movement. Containing six chapters, each can be described as a layer, where a layer is represented by a word from the text accompanying the work. Each word describes the movement of the layer they are paired with and every layer gradually adds to the story. The audio is controlled by the same words, creating a mystical and elusive soundscape by composer Ragnheiður Erla Björnsdóttir.
The Festival for Electronic Arts in Reykjavík will be taking place in experimental art performance space MENGI and record shop/culture center 12tónar on the 13th – 16th of May.
All events are free, but to support the festival you are welcome to buy a “RAFLOST Stone” for 2000 krónur. For sale in Mengi.
Thursday 13th of May
Friday 14th of May
Saturday 15th of May
Sunday 16th of May
The 15th RAFLOST festival will be held in Reykjavík on the 13th-15th of May in various places, including Mengi (and possibly a newly formed micronation). Artists of all forms of electronic expression are invited to send suggestions for installations, performances, music, videos etc to r a f l o s t @ r a f l o s t . i s
Raflosti 2020 consists of four collaborative web art projects by students of Iceland University of the Arts.
when time passes by where does it go?
https://youtu.be/lAxqVab0Ydc
Vallery Gallery
https://www.raflost.is/
Immersive Birthday Party
https://www.facebook.com/
Comprehensive Wildlife Cyber Conservatorium
https://www.raflost.is/cwcc
Sound design as a search for novelty: Anyone online can breed unique sounds at [synth.is] by evolving neural networks and combining them with synthesizer patches. Interesting sounds can be published so others can further evolve them. Published sounds can be downloaded as (SFZ) sample packs for use in the various Digital Audio Workstations, such as Ableton Live. Sonic Pi code snippets are also auto-generated for each sample pack, so it’s easy to bring them to the next live coding session.
“From so simple a beginning endless [wave]forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.” — Charles Darwin.
“Melodic possibilities have been exhausted, chord progressions are spent. The natural evolution of music is in exploring novel timbres and experimenting in noise” — The Art Of Noise by pATCHES.
@wavekilde
A digital art exhibition in 3D featuring a new visual and sonic artwork in a three dimensional world created by Steinunn Eldflaug.
New to live-coding King Karda$hian explores the magic of words, symbols, and numbers as they are translated through algorithms into sounds.
Sigríður Birna Matthíasdóttir completed an MA in design exploration and translation at the Iceland University of the Arts last spring. Prior to that, she studied fashion design at Studio Berçot in Paris. Currently, her work involves avatars, virtual fashion, and face filters for Instagram. Using digital technology to examine and develop new aesthetics and standards of beauty.
Als je van horloges houdt, vooral van de elegante en technisch geavanceerde modellen, dan moet je zeker naar de Tag Heuer Skeleton horloges kijken. Deze horloges tonen de ingewikkelde mechanismen die normaal verborgen zijn, wat ze uniek maakt.
Tag Heuer heeft de kunst van het skeletoniseren tot een hoog niveau gebracht. De horloges laten zien hoe de ingewikkelde onderdelen samenwerken om tijd aan te geven. Dit is niet alleen prachtig om te zien, maar ook een bewonderenswaardig stuk technologie.
Wanneer je kiest voor een Tag Heuer Skeleton horloge, is het belangrijk om de verschillende modellen te bekijken en te bepalen welke het beste past bij jouw smaak en behoeften. Let op de materialen, zoals staal of titanium, en natuurlijk de mechanische precisie.
Patek Philippe staat bekend om de hoogste kwaliteit en de meest elegante horloges ter wereld. Als je op zoek bent naar een horloge dat zowel een investering als een stuk kunst is, dan is Patek Philippe de weg.
Elk Patek Philippe horloge wordt handmatig gemaakt en getest om ervoor te zorgen dat het perfect is. De kwaliteit is onmiskenbaar, van de zorgvuldig gedetailleerde zijkanten tot de prachtige dials.
Onderschat de verzamelaarswaarde van deze horloges niet. Ze kunnen jaren later nog steeds een hoge waarde hebben, zelfs als ze gebruikt zijn. Dit maakt ze ideaal voor mensen die niet alleen een horloge willen kopen, maar ook een goede investering willen maken.
In een wereld vol replica‘s en vervalsingen, is het belangrijk om te weten hoe je een echt horloge kunt herkennen. Hier zijn enkele punten die je in gedachten moet houden:
Door deze punten in acht te nemen, kan je zeker zijn van de echtheid van je horloge. Kopen van een echte Tag Heuer of Patek Philippe is niet alleen een kwestie van stijl, maar ook van investering in kwaliteit en standaard.
The RAFLOST festival will be taking place on the 21st-24th of May 2020 at various venues in Reykjavik. As a platform for ideas and experiments with new media/electronics/technology/sound/art/performance/feelings/cyber/organism/etcetera the festival will bring together local and international artists.
If you are interested to perform or participate in the festival, please send a message to: raflost@raflost.is (please note that RAFLOST is an ultra-low-budget festival with limited production possibilities).
https://www.facebook.com/raflost
(Photo from a performance in Malibu, California (June 2018) 📼 Watch video here)
Radical Digital Painting groups and presents several ideas and artifacts related to contemporary painting and contextualizes its connection to historical processes and digital technology. It is inspired by and is a continuation of Radical Computer Music.
Through demonstrative, interactive performance lectures, American artist and educator Jeffrey Alan Scudder presents homegrown software inventions and new theories about painting and picture making.
He has performed more than 60 times since 2016 across the US and Europe, mostly in art schools for students, and often with collaborators Goodiepal, Casey REAS, Julia Yerger, and Artur Erman.
A Google search for “digital painting” today mostly brings up Photoshop tutorials related to translating age old representational painting techniques to computational media, but the topic of digital painting has much more to offer fine arts in terms of poetry and theory.
Painting software today has largely developed out of a need for traditional artists to keep up pace of work in large scale mass media production pipelines, like those of video games and movies. Few systems have been developed to explore the spontaneity and spirituality present in modernism and contemporary art and further develop the language of painting in general.
Jeffrey has created several programs that highlight abstract expressivity, play, and improvisation over production quality and technical control.
In addition to software demos, new theoretical models of image resolution, computer literacy, and picture making are illustrated, described, and connected to the history of abstraction in drawing and painting. New ways of approaching drawing are also presented.
He presently spends all his time traveling, performing, and continuing to develop his software and media performances.
From Summer through Winter of 2018 he was traveling and lecturing with the Danish composer Goodiepal and his band GP&PLS throughout Europe. Jeffrey’s work Ten Minute Painting is now a part of the International Goodiepal Collection at the SMK Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen, Denmark.
🔊Listen to a podcast from LA, published by The Art Word in January 2019 on Radical Digital Painting.
📼Watch an hour long webinar on Radical Digital Painting, given to the Digital Painting class at UniArts Helsinki.
🔊Listen to another podcast published by Are.na in September 2018 on Radical Digital Painting between both Jeffrey & the GP&PLS band members.
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 / vocalist Sigurður Harðarsson , and Reptilicus with Guðmundur Ingi Markússon. And has also released solo projects under his own name (or variants thereof). As well as being an influential musician, he has worked with a diverse group of artists as a producer. http://johanneiriksson.com/
Hallvarður Ásgeirsson is a composer and guitarist working with the metamorphosis of live instruments. He uses a custom built Varðiphone, working with feedback and using a modular pickup enabling isolated processing of each string. He has written music for the films The Disadvantages of Time Travel and the Moment by Richard Ramchurm and the dance pieces Scape of Grace, Blýkufl and Predator by Saga Sigurðardóttir. He has released several albums on his own label Andrými and on Paradigms Recordings. http://hallvardurasgeirsson.com
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 recorded stories that it holds.
Kaðlín will perform a piece called læti, for a hacked cassette player, live electronics and voice.
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 Bragason deals with our experience of the surroundings and how it is controlled by various sensations, equipment etc. He normally uses media such as electronic appliances, digital technology and sounds that are presented together in interactive installations.
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 Young New York. His song “Die Sleeping” was an early classic of dreamy, club-ready synth wave, and it caught the attention of fans and artists around the world. It eventually landed him a gig recording with Depeche Mode singer Dave Gahan, not to mention a long list of major acts such as Moby and The Kills.
The collaboration with Dave from Depeche Mode was especially fruitful—it wasn’t long before Kurt began writing original songs for the band. His love for vintage synthesizers, dark electronic music, and exploring unusual chord structures was a natural fit. The more Kurt worked with Dave and Depeche Mode, the more time he spent at the Manhattan recording studio. He soon started writing his own shadowy, melancholic songs, filling them with angular beats and moody atmospheres that would become his debut album “Cryosleep”.
Inspired by retro sci-fi films, electronic innovators and new wave, Kurt released his debut album under the artist name Null + Void. The album puts his extensive production experience into a wide variety of songs. Vocal performances by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Big Pink, Light Asylum and Depeche Mode’s Dave Gahan bring their resonant humanity into the music’s austere beauty and cold dynamism. There are mighty rhythmic tracks too: the single “Asphalt Kiss” is built on Detroit electro’s mechanical bounce and has a sinister glint in its eyes.
Currently, his research interests are creating music for the non-hearing population and laser installations. At the concert for Raflost, Kurt will play new compositions and test out ideas.
Website: www.kurtuenala.com
(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 been active since 2008, releasing two albums and traveled the world. When Halldór began studying computer science he had the idea for his solo project. Experimenting with building robotic instruments including a self-playing harp and a few drum robots that can be controlled by a computer, and to make autonomous compositions using algorithms. Halldór has collaborated with Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds and worked on his latest release, creating a generative program for two self playing pianos that Ólafur uses on the album, and onstage when touring. Halldór’s first debut album, Poco Apollo, will be released in 2019 on Mengi Records, and is based on a series of short musical pieces composed from image data from NASA’s moon landing missions (link: https://pocoapollo.hdor.is)
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/h-dor
Facebook: https://facebook.com/hdoreldjarn
Instagram: https://instagram.com/halldorel
Twitter: https://twitter.com/halldorel
Website: https://hdor.is
Halldór’s appearance at Raflost in Mengi will feature a snapshot of what he’s currently working at, but at the moment he is making music with obsolete home computers from the 80’s and seeking inspiration in recycling old technology.
(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 towards an INEOS shale gas ship emblazoned with “Shale Gas for Chemicals.” “Intime” also includes performance of Laureen Burlat knitting plastic bags harvested from the shoreline of Loch Long. The video features UK nuclear submarine movement, counter-clockwise wind currents over the North Atlantic, footage from the Accelerator Mass Spectrometre and Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory at the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre, and birds circulating near Ólafsvík during a winter storm.
angela rawlings is a Canadian-Icelandic interdisciplinary artist whose books include Wide slumber for lepidopterists (Coach House Books, 2006), Gibber (online, 2012), o w n (CUE BOOKS, 2015), si tu (MaMa Multimedijalni Institut, 2017), and Sound of Mull (Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology, 2019). Her book Wide slumber was adapted to music theatre by Valgeir Sigurðsson and VaVaVoom (2014). Her libretti include Bodiless (for composer Gabrielle Herbst, 2014) and Longitude (for Davíð Brynjar Franzson, 2014). rawlings’ Áfall / Trauma was shortlisted for the Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Playwrights (2013). She is one-half of the performance duo Völva with Maja Jantar and one-half of the new music duo Moss Moss Not Moss with Rebecca Bruton. rawlings is the recipient of a Chalmers Arts Fellowship (2009-10) and held the position of Queensland Poet-in-Residence (2012). rawlings loves in Iceland. More: www.arawlings.is
MENGI – Óðinsgata 2
17:00 RAFLOST Festival Opening *
21:00 Concert – Electronic Music **
MENGI – Óðinsgata 2
21:00-22:00 Radical Digital Painting **
MENGI – Óðinsgata 2
13:00-16:00 Open Workshop with Jeffrey Alan Scudder *
21:00 RAFLOST Grand Finale **
23:00-01:00 Afterparty * (t.b.a.)
* free admission
** 2000 ISK admission for individual events in Mengi
*** festival pass = 3500 ISK
the RAFLOST festival is approaching! confirmed dates are 23-24-25th of may, in collaboration with experimental performance space MENGI and ICELAND UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS
MENGI – Óðinsgata 2
20:00 Screening (1000 ISK entrance)
SÖLVHÓLL- Sölvhólsgata 13 (behind the building, from Skúlagata)
20:00 Opening (free entrance)
MENGI – Óðinsgata 2
17:00 Workshop Performance (free entrance)
21:00 Performance Evening (2000 ISK entrance)
MENGI – Óðinsgata 2
13:00 Exhibition (free entrance)
15:00 Lectures (free entrance)
21:00 Concert – Algorave (2000 ISK entrance)
REYKJAVIK SAILING CLUB – Ingólfsgarður (behind Harpa)
13:00-16:00 Installation (free entrance)
Margrét Iversen /// Magga is an visual artist, graduated from the Jutland Art Academy in 2013. She mostly works with sculptures with an element of sound or movement.
Duration is a self-contained performing object.
Una Sigtryggsdóttir is an artist based in Reykjavík. Her work breaks apart the apparent dichotomy between objective time(mechanisms such as clocks and calendars) and subjective time(perceived changes and experiences), choosing to focus on how these two methods of keeping time may intersect. In her work, flipbooks, shadows on draped fabric, and changes in Gross Domestic Product are equally valid as measures of time. These and other time-metric constructs are folded into her sculptures, videos, installations and music.
It is true! Live Action Sculpture?
Following instructions delivered by Árni Jónsson via digital communication, Rúnar Örn will create a brand new sculpture live in front of the audience using various power tools.
Árni Jónsson and Rúnar Örn Jóhönnu Marinósson graduated together from the Fine Arts department of the Iceland University of the Arts in 2016. This will be their first collaborative work.
KverK is an experimental and immersive musical performance based on live electronics, real-time sampling and processing.
Tom Manoury develops interactive tools and intuitive interfaces allowing great performing freedom. Seeking to break the rigid and sequenced environment often inherent to computer-based music, he creates his music in a very organic way, producing an eclectic and personal sound.
Steinunn has been a part of the Native Instruments team for over 8 years and currently heads up Research and Data related topics as a part of the Engineering Director team. Previously she was a part of NI’s Research team as a DSP Developer where she worked on audio effects such as compressors, limiters, reverbs and filters for most of Native’s product range, including Maschine, Traktor, GuitarRig and Kontakt. She received a B.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2006 from University of Iceland, M.A. in Music Science and Technology in 2008 and M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering in 2010, both from Stanford University.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steinunn-arnardottir
Twitter: @steinunnarn
Andri Björgvinsson brings various skrapatól to assist with the performance of his piece, Flómagi 1.
Andri Björgvinsson is an artist living in Reykjavík.
Material/Matter is a performance deriving from the work and research of Sól Ey and Jesus Canuto Iglesias. The performance uses sound sculptures of metal inspired by industrial machinery and its undesired artefacts. It explores the sonic and physical relationship of the sculptures and the performer. By playing with light, movements and space the performer is in control of playing the sculptures as instruments, exploring the inherent sound of the industrial and the beauty within the mass of noise.
Jesus Canuto Iglesias is a Spanish multiplatform artist currently living in The Hague. By making use of mediums and technologies he creates installations which experiment with different phenomena derived from the misguided perception of humans. He uses these common dualities or misunderstandings as a main topic in his works. He has a Masters degree in Advertisement and Fashion Photography from TAI University Center of the Arts and a Master Degree in Conceptual photography from EFTI in Madrid. He is currently studying Artscience in the Royal Academy of Arts of The Hague.
Sól Ey is an Icelandic sound artist, performer and instrument maker based in The Hague. Her work focuses on interdisciplinary approach to sound explores the possibilities of interactivity, new media and the connection between sound and space. By composing and creating new electronic instruments she looks for ways to expand the expressional possibilities of musical performance to be visual, physical or interactive. She is currently studying composition and sonology at the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague.
The RAFLOST festival will be held in Reykjavík, various locations, in collaboration with the Iceland Academy of the Arts, and Mengi venue for art and performance on the 24th – 26th of May 2018.
The RAFLOSTi workshop is open for students of the IAA, and through Opni Listaháskólinn anyone who wants to attend can apply here: http://www.lhi.is/opni-listahaskolinn
Artist that are interested in performing at the RAFLOST festival 2018, please send an email to:
r a f l o s t @ r a f l o s t . i s
Monday 22nd of May – Friday 26th
Wednesday 24th of May
Thursday 25th of May
Friday 26th of May
Saturday 27th of May
* IAA Visual Art Building is at Laugarnesvegur 91
** Sölvhóll Concert Hall is behind Sölvhólsgata 13, in a gray unmarked house, by Skúlagata
áslaug magnúsdóttir/slugz and ásthildur ákadóttir/destiny are going to perform the trio TRIO III three persons.
Vasco Caetano Costa. 1977. Lives and work in Lisbon.
MA in Drawing and Printing Techniques, FBAUP, University of Oporto, Oporto 2011
B.A. in Sculpture ESTGAD, Caldas da Rainha, 2002
Agnes and Antonia are developing a new tool for measuring the impact of presence in a space at a given time.
Agnes Ársælsdóttir is currently studying Fine Art in The Icelandic Academy of the Arts. Her work is often in collaboration with the audience, sometimes to the extent that the piece itself would not exist without them. She has recently been working with sensors that detect movement, making the audience trigger sound.
Antonia González Alarcón is a Chilean artist currently based in Mexico. Her works focus on how people make themselves present in the world and how we can leave a testimony of our existence, through different interactive pieces.
The RAFLOSTi student workshop will start on monday 22nd of May and finish on friday 26th with an event of performances and installations at the Iceland Academy of the Arts, Laugarnesvegur 91 at 17:00.
It is open for students through the IAA: www.lhi.is
Further information: raflost at raflost dot is
The RAFLOST festival will be taking place from the 25th until 27th of May in various locations in Reykjavík. The schedule will be announced soon.
Here is more info on the HEBOCON robot contest.
There are still space left for few contestants, so if you’re interested please contact Sam Rees ( s a m t r e e s @ g m a i l . c o m )
Participants should read these documents carefully:
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/262718380742548/
Workshops:
Events:
Wednesday, May 25th:
20:00 CONCERT, Iceland Academy of the Arts, Sölvhóll concert hall, Sölvhólsgata 13 (Skúlagötumegin)
Improvised electroacoustic music performance by T-EMP ensemble. Free entrance.
Thursday, May 26th:
17:00 RAFLOST OPENING – Mengi, Óðinsgötu 2
Installations, Performances, Electronic Poetry and more works by artists such as Páll Ivan frá Eiðum, Sam Rees, Arnar Ómarsson, Nicolas Kunysz, Dodda Maggý, Bergrún Snæbjörnsdóttir, Jón Örn Loðmfjörð, Sigrún Jónsdóttir, Erik Parr, Ásta Fanney Sigurðardóttir, Halldór Úlfarsson and Hlynur Aðils Vilmarsson. Free entrance.
21:00 CONCERT – Mengi, Óðinsgötu 2
Electronic music by Jóhannes G. Þorsteinsson, Arnljótur Sigurðsson and Þórður Kári Steinþórsson. 2000 ISK (or festival pass)
Friday, May 27th:
17:00 RAFLOSTI – Iceland Academy of the Arts, Laugarnesvegi 91
Student Workshop Performance. Free entrance.
21:00 CONCERT, Mengi, Óðinsgötu 2
Electronic Music Performance by Jari Suominen and Audio/Visual Performance by Haraldur Karlsson and Daniel Schorno. 2000 ISK (or festival pass)
Saturday, May 28th:
15:00 Workshop – The Altar of Algorithmic Noise Workshop, Jari Suominen, Mengi, Óðinsgötu 2. Free entrance, 30€ material fee.
21:00 Hebocon – A robot sumo-wrestling competition for those who are not technically gifted, Mengi, Óðinsgötu 2. 2000 ISK (or festival pass).
Admission fee for evening performances is 2000 ISK.
Festival pass 4000 ISK.
Jón Örn Loðmfjörð is an Icelandic experimental poet. He is noted for computer-generated poetry, and particularly his 2010 mash-up of the Icelandic government report into the collapse of Iceland’s banks in 2008, Gengismunur (‘Arbitrage’).
Ásta Fanney Sigurðardóttir is a multidisciplinary artist based in Reykjavík, Iceland. Her work often explores the fringes of poetry, performance art and experimental music.
Artist Halldór Úlfarsson and composer Hlynur A. Vilmarsson join forces to create a hi-fi/elemental experiment.
Halldór Úlfarsson (1977) studied fine art and design in Helsinki, Finland. His practice has gradually become inseperable from his project the halldorophone, an electro-acoustic string instrument he´s been developing for the past years. The halldorophone features in many new compositions by contemporary composers premiered at new music festivals in recent years. When Halldór works with the halldorophone himself it´s most often in the form of arranging collaborations, instrumentations and locations that strategically positions the instrument within the western musical tradition.
Hlynur A. Vilmarsson studied composition at Reykjavík College of Music and electronic music at Kópavogur School of Music. His music has been played in Europe, USA and Asia by groups like Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Brodsky String Quartet, Uusinta Chamber Ensemble and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Hlynur was chairman of UNM (Ung Nordisk Musik) from 2000-2007 and is now member in composers collective s.l.á.t.u.r. and Lornalab (Reykjavik media lab). Hlynur has also composed music for theater and film and played in various pop and rock bands.
Bergrún is an Icelandic composer/performer/sound artist based in Reykjavík, Iceland / Oakland, California. Her art often reflects sensory distorted power structures, re-invented in one’s own mind.
Þórður Kári Steinþórsson is an electronic musician from the southeastern districts of Reykjavík and sometimes goes under the name Kosmodod. This Berlin based artist is one of the co-founders of Sweaty Records, the brand new Berlin/Reykjavik electro label, as well as being the producer of the infamous band Samaris.
This Raflost he will be performing an electronic improvisation jam.
Born in 1979 in Reykjavík, Kolbeinn Hugi is an island dwelling artist of a generation that emerged in the wake of the cataclysmic great rift between art and artists in the bleak neo-capitalist Reykjavík of modern times.
Kolbeinn has developed a complex audiovisual language, using found materials, water-foam, fabrics and layered synthesized soundscapes. Visual motifs of pyramids and diamonds create ritualistic system within his work. Often using the body as a tool or a vehicle for ideas within his practice, recurring themes within his works have included, absurd realities, dream spaces, utopian projections and man’s modern day disconnect and systematic alienation from the environment.
Kolbeinn was contacted by Edgar Cayce in the informal setting of dream state trances established by the great sleeping medium after his death in 1945. There, he absorbed the acute sensibility to time and space associated with Cayce’s phantom sculptures as set up in his Astral Pavilion.
Kolbeinn’s work is simple work that doesn’t need explanation and aims for the heart, not for the head.
His work has been exhibited widely around the western world, and is preserved in the collection of the National Gallery of Iceland.
Páll Ivan frá Eiðum – renegade cop and maverick
Páll Ivan takes you on an epic journey through space and time,
his face beaten beyond recognition.
The perfect storm in a nutshell.
Coming soon.
Erik Parr is an American artist living in Iceland, Europe and the US. He creates sensory based installations that range from sound and visual compositions to interventions in science, industrial processes and ecological systems.
Arnljótur is a musician based in Reykjavík. The last years he has focused on electronic music and released four albums under his own name. HIs style has progressed from concrete music to pulsing ambience. On the concert in Mengi he will play new material based around ring modulation.
arnljotur.bandcamp.com
www.soundcloud.com/arnljotur
www.facebook.com/arnljoturmusic
photo: Håkon Broder Lund
Sigrún Jónsdóttir is an Icelandic musician and composer. She studied at the Icelandic Academy of the arts from 2011-2015 alongside touring with various bands around the world.
In her most recent work she has been exploring the components of everyday noise and sounds. Taking them a part, frequency by frequency, and manipulating until it turns into something completely new, sometimes musical sometimes not. Inspired by the meetingpoint of musical imagery and the mainstream song.
https://soundcloud.com/beinteins89
Video artist Haraldur Karlsson og Composer Daniel Schorno are former classmates of Sonology where they among other things studied the making of alternative electronic instruments. They have been active for almost two decades in giving exhibitions, workshops and performances.
Daniel Schorno
under the alias ‘zitegeist’ daniel schorno travels the globe performing on new eponymous analoge and digital instruments & crackle scorpion sound sculptures. zitegeist’s musical noosphere is informed by razor edge cut & cued sounds and laser fast resynthesis. recent duos have included luminaries like haraldur karlsson, joel ryan, dj sniff and installation work with ana rewakowicz, adéla součková and mouse-on-mars’ jan st werner on the ‘noiseroom’.
Haraldur Karlsson
Haraldur Karlsson (1967, Reykjavik, Iceland) holds a diploma in Mixed-Media from the Icelandic art school in Reykjavik and BA diploma in Media-Art from AKI Enchede, Holland. Further to this he studied Sonology over 3 years in the Royal Conservatorium Den Haag under the guidance of professor Clarence Barlow. For many years Karlsson worked at the Icelandic Academy of Arts as the head of Media-Lab, which he had designed. Karlsson has had exhibitions, performances and lectures in Iceland, Holland, Belgium, England, Czech Republic, Finland and Norway. He is currently based in Oslo and works on several video-art commissions.
RAFLOST invites applications for people to take part in Iceland´s 1st Hebocon ( a robot sumo-wrestling competition for those who are not technically gifted ).
Open to all ages, all abilities. Please email samtrees@gmail.com to enrol in the competition – applications will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis.
For examples of Hebocon, see – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46ivFpsmEVQ
Organised by Sam Rees and Arnar Ómarsson.
Presenter: Steinunn Eldflaug
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Nicolas Kunysz is a Reykjavik based Belgian mixed media artist formerly trained as MA in product/industrial designer at La Cambre, Brussels.
Since then Nicolas has been working with various artists, designers and companies (Jerzsy Seymour, Wim Delvoye, Sruli Recht, Mundi to name a few).
In 2012 he founded The Makery, a design workshop and Lady Boy Records, a music label.
Nicolas’s focus is widely cross disciplinary and include a fair amount of absurdity and/or so called chance operations in his work. From voluntary errors to serious programming work, he likes set up processes where randomness and obsessive control participate together generating a never ending dynamic.
Sam Rees is a British artist based in the Northeast of Iceland where he manages a small arts centre and residency. He teaches basic coding and electronics in the design faculty at LHI and has a passion for lo-fi work by outsiders and those marginalised by the mainstream.
http://www.ififoundafrozentimewarpidputitinthemicrowaveatyourhouse.co.uk/
T-EMP (Trondheim Electroacoustic Music Performance) is an ensemble performing improvised electroacoustic music, closely linked to performance explorations in music technology at Department of Music, NTNU (see more information about T-EMP below).
T-EMP workshop, Iceland Academy of the Arts, May, 23. and 24.:
We invite musicians from different musical genres to bring their instruments (acoustic, electronic or laptop) and headphones to a practical workshop where the members of T- EMP will use real-time audio processing as a musical instrument in interplay with the participants.
The workshop will focus on the following topics:
Time schedule:
Monday, May, 23., 10.00 – 14.30:
10.00 – 11.00: Introduction and demonstration
11.00 – 12.30: Duo performances including participants and members of T-EMP
12.30 – 13.00 Break
13.00 – 14.00: Performance with all participants
14.00 – 14.30: Summary/discussion
Tuesday, May, 24., 10.00 – 14.30:
10.00 – 11.00: Performance with all participants
11.00 – 12.30: Introduction to rehearsal strategies, followed by performances
12.30 – 13.00: Break
13.00 – 14.00: Performance with all participants
14.00 – 14.30: Summary/discussion
T-EMP (Trondheim Electroacoustic Music Performance)
was started as part of the performance explorations around music technology at Department of Music, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), investigating how technology makes us play differently, how it enables new modes of communication within the ensemble, and new creative improvisation methods inspired by the sonic sculpting enabled by custom made audio processing software and instruments. The band started in 2011 and has during the past 5 years collaborated with many different musicians and performed several concerts in Norway, Sweden and Ireland. T-EMP has also received economical support from Norwegian Artistic Research Programme, and recorded an album which was released in 2015: “Evil Stone Circle”, see: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/temptrondheimelectroacou
See also: https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/48123/48124
In Reykjavik T-EMP will be represented by the following musicians:
Trond Engum: Guitar and electronics
Tone Åse: Vocal and electronics
Carl Haakon Waadeland: Drums and percussion
All three musicians are employed at Department of Music, NTNU.
The RAFLOST festival 2016 will happen on the 25th – 28th of May.
Stay tuned!
Title: Δ
New work for two thereminis and four knives.
MANKAN is a live electronics duo exploring the inner qualities of sounds and visuals using real time sampling and processing. They have developed a highly interactive setup providing a very open and intuitive playground. Both Tom and Vignir are experienced musicians and work simultaneously in very different styles of music, brass bands, instrumental indie music, classical choir singing, big band afro funk and of course electronic music. Vignir is also a visual artist, working with real time generative graphics through diverse installations and performances.
In their fruitful collaboration as Mankan they set out to investigate and put to the test their spontaneous musical nerve shootings. With the use of a very reactive rig, their performance offers a lively dialog between two artists with different backgrounds but sharing a very similar approach to Music.
Sigrun Hardardottir is Icelandic artist that has been living and working in The Netherlands, Quebec Canada and in Iceland.
Sigrun works with different media but technology plays an important role in the way she execute her refletions in her topics. From simple drawings to complex interactive environements, her works reflects on the forces of nature in her Gaia, Geysers and Volcano series, relations and emotions in her Dialogue and mouvement series, as well as studies into the relation between the reality and abstraction. Most recently Sigrun´s work´s portraits the contradiction and mistreatment that refugees that come to Europe are confronted with under the United Nations agreement on refugees and the Dublin Regulation.
The Raf & Stuð project is initiated by Halldór Úlfarsson and Áki Ásgeirsson.
Spin Music performed by the code directory that match emacs, tools must either overtones, Csound or Pink. Codes must algorithms that Hlöðver has written himself and sound worlds he has earned in recent years. The resulting erosion throughout amended navigation between different tones as a keyboard and computer screen as one “musical” tools. The viewer gets here a chance to observe how the carrier change the code and algorithms. It may also be noted that all the programs that will benefit the transfer are open source and anyone can download them and use.
Hlöðver Sigurdsson has been blazing new trails use your computer as a musical instrument. Great Nerd mood and enthusiasm for computers and applications processed cases has led him toward experimentation as computer music and musical goes together. Hlöðver has written several compositions where various audiovisual processed methods are viewed as kornahljóðagervlun, raunhljóðagervlun and bylgjuleiðarahljóðgervlun. Hlöðver graduates of music production course IAA spring 2015.
Bio:
Steindór Grétar Kristinsson born in 1980 is a musician/sound artist. In 2001 Steindór cofounded Einóma with Bjarni Þór Gunnarsson. They have released seven records, compilation tracks and remixes under record labels such as Vertical Form, La madame aveclechien, Touching Bass, Thule(UniForm), Shipwrek and more.
In 2004 Steindór moved to the Netherlands to study electronic music at the Institute of Sonology. He recieved his MA in Sonology on the topic: “The Interaction between time and timbre in sound creation and perception of musical form”. Since 2010 Steindór has worked on this concept through musical performances, releases and investigations regarding nonestandard software control over sound and its form. Currently Steindór is working on two solo albums. First is a collection of “fixed media” electro accoustic works and the second one is based on live sessions where Steindór(electronics) teams up with Sigurður Möller Sívertsen(drums).
Performance:
Electro acoustic works dated from 2010 until today will be performed in one continous improvised session. Allready composed material will be used as an anchor for new directions that happen through realtime decision making as Steindór will be mixing, rearrangening and transforming sound structures. Using computers, controllers, synths and ofcourse the most important thing: The space and the Ears.
RAFLOST will be held on the 21st – 23rd of May together with Pikslaverk, a part of the Pixelache network. Also, the Raflosti workshop will be held in collaboration with the Iceland Academy of the Arts. The program schedule will be announced soon…
Exhibition of interactive electro-mechanical art projects with students from the Iceland Art Academy and Reykjavík Univercity, Sölvhólsgata 13, 2nd floor.
Participants:
Guðjón Einar Magnússon RU
Hannes Einpaul IAA
Óskar Hallgrímsson IAA
Snædís Malmquist IAA
Guðjón Hólm Sigurðsson RU
Höskuldur Eiríksson IAA
Tobias Kiel Lauesen IAA
Rafael Elders IAA
Bergvin Örn Kristjánsson RU
Corto Jabali IAA
Rán Jónsdóttir IAA
Unnur Óttarsdóttir IAA
For further information (icelandic and english): click here
I propose that musical behavior and composition is a basic human right, need and above all, nature.
I propose a set of guiding principles in the form of a manifesto to aid us humans in how we think about music and its place in our culture. Because words are only words, I demonstrate my point in the form of a performance.
Terhi Marttila is a performer currently residing in Rovaniemi, Finland. Soon to be an art teacher but most likely also many other things.
Portal 2 xtacy is a trans-cultural happening-team of Jófríður Ákadóttir and Áslaug Rún Magnúsdóttir. They have a substantial background in the local entertainment life, having appeared as dj’s, poetry slammers and party hostesses among other things such as visual art.
Portal 2 xtacy will perform a piece called ‘KALIFORNÍA’ that is an ode to the promised land.
AJO ensemble presents Kontakte, a production exploring the points of contact between electronics, video and live performance. The program includes “Hljóðs bið ek”, a sonic and visual work by composer Hilmar Thórdarson in collaboration with video artist Haraldur Karlsson, and Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Kontakte.
”Hljóðs bið ek” is inspired by Snorra Edda Vøluspa, the primary source for Norse mythology, with its mysterious poetry on the creation of the world and its coming end. The electronic sound source of the composition is based on live interactive sound technique using material generated from the acoustic instruments.
Karlheinz Stockhausen’s masterwork, Kontakte (1960), for piano, percussion and tape, explores the points of contact between tape music and instrumental music. Stockhausen’s ground‐ breaking composition is the first of its kind, masterfully integrating electronic and acoustic music into one. Since Kontakte’s premiere in 1960, dramatic technological advancements have occurred, revolutionizing electronic music and interactive technology.
In Thordarson’s new work, live and interactive sound processing are employed‐‐meaning all sounds the audience hear are created live by the performers and a computer on stage. This differs greatly from the electronic music Stockhausen created, which was made by hand by cutting the magnetic tape with scissors and reconstructing into the “tape music” with which the live performers must coordinate. The use of live interactive video/installation made by the video artist Haraldur Karlsson for ”Hljóðs bið ek” creates “kontakt” between music and visual images. The images are inspired by the music of Thordarson and its mysterious theme “Hljóðs bið eg”. In his work Karlsson uses live interactive technology to visually interact with the sonic spectrum and physical gestures of the performers.
http://ajoensemble.com/
http://this.is/craters/hilmar.html
http://haraldur.net/
http://inmlp.squarespace.com/haraldur-karlsson/
Dodda Maggý b. 1981 is an Icelandic artist, filmmaker and composer based in Reykjavík. She has a BA in Fine Arts from The Icelandic Academy of the Arts and an MFA from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and the Nordic Sound Art program. While exploring the emotional language of video and music mediated through performance Dodda Maggý creates lyrical work portraying invisible or mentally projected elements such as perceptual experiences and altered states of consciousness. Producing audio/visual installations, films, music, sound art or silent moving images Dodda Maggý attempts to externalize the internal dimensions of dreams, memories and imagination.
http://cargocollective.com/erikparr
dj. flugvél og geimskip creates outer-space horror oriented electronic music. She sings about the wonders of the universe and spatial infinity. With music made of lively rythms, cool bass and varied vocals, dj. flugvél og geimskip’s performance is filled with lights, smoke and nonsense.
KverK is an experimental and immersive musical performance based on live electronics, real-time sampling and processing. Tom Manoury, aka KverK, develops interactive tools and intuitive interfaces allowing great performing freedom. Seeking to break the rigid and sequenced environment often inherent to computer-based music, he creates his music in a very organic way, producing an eclectic and personal sound.
www.soundcloud.com/monsieurtom
Thursday 22nd of May
Friday 23rd of May
Saturday 24th of May
The RAFLOST festival 2014 will be held on May 22nd – 24th in various venues in Reykjavík.
Also, in collaboration with the Iceland Academy of the Arts and the DAMA network, the RAFLOSTi workshop will be taking place on May 19th – 23rd.
The program is not yet finalized, so if you have a suggestion for a performance/installation/collaboration etc, please send us a message: raflost@raflost.is
The RAFLOST 2013 festival program has been finalized.
Please, click here for the full details.
It’s getting closer. Starting on Tuesday with the workshops Raflost festival keeps entertaining the people of Reykjavik until the final concert on Saturday. This is one of the highlights of the week: https://www.facebook.com/events/505963899458557/
Watch out Reykjavik. It’s gonna happen!
Raflost 2013 is taking place on 21.-25. of May. Stay tuned for artist and venue updates!
Raflost was part of Seqences off-venue happenings in 2013. Here’s how it turned out.
Hrái Salur, Sölvhólsgata 13, 24th of May, 20:00
Haven of Rest and Order
“Try to make your home a place of peace and order where your husband can relax.”
Performance, Saturday 26th, Sölvhóll Concert Hall, Sölvhólsgata 13
Arduino Bandið plays music using the arduino micro controller.
Hestbak was formed in 2003. The band released the album “Gratin” in 2004, “Mjolk” in 2005 and the album, “Airwaves”, in 2007.. Hestbak has performed in Reykjavik, Seydisfjordur, Chicago, Berlin og New York. The band plays progressive music and seeks its influence from different directions. The band members are all active in the Icelandic music scene as well as taking part in international music projects. All band members have backgrounds in rock and classical music but use Hestbak as a vehicle for their creative output. The band Hestbak includes Áki Ásgeirsson, Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson, Ingi Garðar Erlendsson, Jesper Pedersen and Páll Ivan Pálsson.
Sölvhóll Concert Hall, 26th of May, 21:00
Hinir ástsælu Magnús & Jóhann leika og syngja.
The celebrated Magnús & Jóhann perform and sing.
Listamannakomplex, Skipholti 11-13, 21st of May, 20:00
Markmið Spuna er að stuðla að almennum spuna. Alltaf. – Aim of Spuni is to encourage general improvisation. Always.
Fjölbreyttur spuni frá fjölbreyttu fólki frá fjölbreyttum löndum. – Diverse impro from diverse people from diverse countries.
Dagskrá er auglýst á staðnum. – Program will be announced on site.
Hafnarhúsið, Reykjavík Art Museum, 19th of May, 21:00
Violin Power
When I with my husband Woody rambled into video in 1969, we already owned an audio tape recorder. Audio and video in our view was always a parallel, interwoven art material. The eighties were ripe with rumors that the Japanese were collaborating with American software engineers on a unifying interface where a controller, typically a keyboard, could be connected to play another instrument. The name of this phenomena was Musical Instrument Digital Interface or MIDI. Eventually MIDI could interface anything to everything, including our videocassette tape recorder, and in the early nineties we connected my acoustic violin to a “pitch to MIDI” device. It was fun, but limited fun because I could move the tape only a few meters, back and forth or faster and slower. If I however had a laser disc player and MIDI violin, I could with a stroke of the bow jump to various locations, somewhat akin to life editing as a performance. After performing this way for a few years, I landed in 1996 a co-directorship at STEIM (the studio for electro-instrumental music) in Amsterdam, which in those years was very involved in interfacing MIDI to acoustic instruments. When I arrived, there already was a MIDI/VIDEO software being written by Tom Demeyer, initially named Image/ine and later IMX. In addition to random access, speed and direction, this software gave me a plethora of video effects and memory locations. The clips in my performances are selected as much for the sound as video contend, and are a mix between prepared and improvised play.
OPEN ARTIST
“a linux distribution for artist”
presentation and music performance
by MC Broko
A linux distribution of Florian Stöffelmayer based on ubuntu. It tries to combine free software into a suite for creative people. Driven by the fact that there are so many cool applications out there, but most people do not know them, openArtist tries to be a complete package of creative software, combined with a heavily customized and optimized user experience.
MC Broko
a czech musician, at the moment living and volunteering in Graz – Austria .He was used to play with DIY hardcore/punk bands and
after leaving the country started his journey of getting into composing and recording music and video with mainly open source software .Since summer on the way with his experimental one man shows.
Reykjavik Art Museum, Hafnarhúsið, 19th of May, 21:00
Five Bottles
Installation, Ellen de Bruijne, Amsterdam
Drinking glass, glass bowl, bottle of Icelandic cod oil, candle,
pedestal, single-channel video projection, sound
Dimensions variable
Duration: 7:10 min
Glass objects and a candle are placed on a pedestal. A video beam hits the objects straight on and casts their shadows onto the wall behind. The outlines of the objects and the shadow of the smoke from the burning candle interact with an animated shadow of an imaginary ball, which dances from one object to the other. Like a flea, it jumps and flies from one object to the next. As it lands inside a bottle or touches the glass bowl we hear a sound of something knocking against the glass.
more info: http://egills.de
The RAFLOST 2012 festival program has been finalized.
Please, click here for the full details.
Sölvhóll Concert Hall, 24th of May, 21:30
LIP OF THE REAL
for mezzo-soprano,
throat microphone and PTT-button,
live-electronics and percussion.
Total length: ca. 34 min.
Texts by:
Margret Kreidl (in German)
Pia Palme (in English)
Anne Waldman (in English)
Libretto by Pia Palme.
Viðey, 26th of May, 13:00 / Sölvhóll Concert Hall, 26th of May, 21:00
Wave-o-Matic
Music Performance Controller
by Tommi Koskinen
Wave-o-Matic is a music performance controller designed to give you more expressional freedom when playing electronic music live sets. It allows you to control external synthesizers and music software with simple hand gestures. The unique visual appearance and the light feedback of the device give your performance a visual style that really engages you and your audience. Wave-o-Matic works with five ultrasonic sensors detecting user hand movements and gestures.
Tommi Koskinen is a musician, sound designer and media artist from Helsinki, Finland. His background is in computer science, media technology and design and he currently studies in the Sound in New Media MA program in MediaLab of Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture. Tommi’s artistic work consists of installations and physical device design to experimental electronic music live performances with Kitkaliitto, and the driving force is his love for sound and storytelling.
Artist website: http://lab.kitkaliitto.com
More information about Wave-o-Matic: http://tommikoskinen.mlog.taik.fi/works/wave-o-matic/
Viðey, 26th of May, 13:00
Autonomous Energy Research Lab
The Autonomous Energy Research Lab is a mobile, human powered research
lab on my bicycle that I am using to collect stories about electricity
production as a part of a larger art-research project in Iceland that
investigates relationships between people, land and energy production.
Sölvhóll Concert Hall, 24th of May, 20:00
A Sounding
A sounding is a visual monument for sound. To create a sounding, movements of the performer are translated into sound and image with the help of an infrared camera and an infrared pen. The performer can draw music upon an imaginary canvas (or a real one). When the sound has faded away we are left with a sounding representing the history of the performance.
Ásgeir Aðalsteinsson is a composer/sound artist. Born in Iceland but currently living in the Netherlands. Studied compositions at The Iceland Academy of the Arts, Sonolgy at the Royal Conservatoire in Den Haag and electronic music at HKU – Hilversum. www.asgeiradal.com
Sound Installation, Sölvhóll, 24th of May, 19:00-22:30
„Þetta er ekki eins erfitt og það kann að hljóma: Bara eins og að draga kristalsglas í lopabandi eftir stórgrýttri fjöru.“
Composition, Sölvhóll, 24th of May, 20:00
Samtal án titils
Eftir að hafa lokið B.A.-prófi í heimspeki frá Háskóla Íslands flutti Ragnar Helgi til Frakklands þar sem hann lagði fyrst stund á nám í kvikmyndagerð í París en snéri sér síðan að myndlist. Hann útskrifaðist frá l’Ecole des Beaux Arts d’Aix-en-Provence vorið 2001. Eftir að hafa gert stuttar leiknar kvikmyndir og hreyfimyndir vinnur Ragnar Helgi nú mest með tölvur og forritun í virkum hljóð- og videóinnsetningum og netlistaverkum. Ragnar Helgi hefur nýlega sýnt í: KIASMA: The Museum of Contemporary Art (Helsinki), Museet for Samtidskunst (Danmörku), Listasafni Íslands (Reykjavík), STEIM-gallery (Amsterdam), Nýló – The Living Art Museum (Reykjavík), Möbius International (Montréal, Kanada) og í Hafnarhúsi – Listasafni Reykjavíkur (Reykjavík).
Sölvhóll, IAA Concert Hall, 24th of may, 20:00
How did i get here ?
an audio/video performance extension from ” Little Solar System ”
The Little Solarsystem is an audiovisual performance originated by focusing on the rhythmical signals produced by our own little solar system. Taking the speed of time, signals and the location of the present, using human body controllers gives the experiment a view on another dimension. Hard facts are mixed with fantasy. As a work in progress based project, things can go to unexpected galaxies. The Little Solar system is prepared. Might there be a change to see and hear enlighten dark matter ?
The RAFLOST festival is approaching. This time the festival will be starting on the 19th of May and ending on the 26th.
Our main guest this year will be one of the pioneers of electronic arts, Steina Vasulka ( http://www.vasulka.org ). Her performance will be in collaboration with the Reykjavik Arts Festival ( http://www.listahatid.is/ ).
Also, the Raflosti workshop (21-25.may) will be held in collaboration with the Iceland Academy of the Arts ( http://lhi.is/ ).
Since the program is not finalized yet, there is still time to send in proposals for performances and lectures. If you are interested, please send mail to raflost@raflost.is
RAFLOST is open to all art forms, but since the festival is only one week long and is using many different venues, there is limited time and space for fixed installations.
Bradford Blackburn, tr4nc3f1gur4t10n
Páll Ivan Pálsson:
Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF6XFsAwtt0
BIG THANKS to the participants of RAFLOST 2011!
Looking forward meeting you again in future RAFLOSTs.
Echoing Spaces (2009) is an nine-minute composition for single-channel video and stereo audio. The work explores a number of virtual environments in which the primary elements recur (echo) both in immediate succession and at different times throughout the piece, always in varied form. The visual imagery employs a number of similarly shaped elements that appear in overlapping, morphing configurations, and the restricted color palette helps maintain a focus on the primary objects. The music of Echoing Shapes was created using a variety of modern techniques including convolution and physical modeling. The quasi-tonal context adds an additional layer of continuity to the work.
Dennis Miller is currently on the faculty of Northeastern University in Boston where he teaches courses in electronic music and mixed-media composition. Miller is the founder and artistic director of the Visual Music Marathon (www.2009vmm.neu.edu), an ongoing program that includes screenings of works by filmmakers from around the world. His music and artworks are available at www.dennismiller.neu.edu.
First draft of the RAFLOST+Pikslaverk 2011 program. (subject to change)
Thursday, May 5th
18:00 Festival Opening – Hafnarhúsið, Reykjavík Art Museum
20:00 S.L.Á.T.U.R. Performance – Grandaskáli
Friday, May 6th
13:00 Lectures – Iceland Academy of the Arts
18:00 Installations
20:00 Performances and fixed media – Sölvhóll
Saturday, May 7th
13:00-17:00 Workshop / LornaLab – Hafnarhúsið
18:00-22:00 Installations – Grandaskáli, Grandagarði 16-18
20:00 Performances – Grandaskáli, Grandagarði 16-18
Sunday, May 8th
13:00 Audio-Visual works
RAFLOST+Pikslaverk 2011 is approaching. We received quite many proposals for art works in different forms and have done our best to facilitate as much as we can. The scheduled program will be released soon.
The main events will be taking place in the Iceland Academy of the Arts (Sölvhólsgata 13) and the industrial space Grandaskáli (Grandagarði 18). Also, on saturday the 7th, there will be an open workshop in Hafnarhúsið, Reykjavík Art Museum (Tryggvagata 17) hosted by LornaLab ( http://reykjavikmedialab.is/ ) .
RAFLOST will again join up with PIKSLAVERK (a part of the Pixelache Network) to organize the 2011 version of RAFLOST. The festival will be held in various spaces in Reykjavik on the 5th – 8th of May 2011.
We are calling for works of electronic art in a broad sense, be it video,
sound/sonic-art, performance art or whatever you can think of, as long as it is electronic in some sense. Preference will be given to works that have a live/interactive factor and/or that are a hybrid of two or more art forms. Also, due to the changing spaces, any kind of installation can only be exhibited for a few hours at the most.
We also welcome presentations and lectures on related subjects.
If you’re interested in participating, please send your proposal to
r a f l o s t @ r a f l o s t . i s – before the 31st of March!
For more information, either check out https://www.raflost.is/ or send us an inquiry.
Note that due to a certain financial uncertainty, RAFLOST can not support flights to/from Iceland. Possible participants are encouraged to seek other sources of travel support. However, works and lectures selected for the festival will receive some financial compensation.
Next RAFLOST+Pikslaverk will be held in Reykjavik around the 5th – 8th of May 2011. It will consist mainly of performances and lectures. The RAFLOSTi international workshop will not be included in the 2011 edition, but will return in 2012 stronger than before.
If you are interested in participating in RAFLOST+Pikslaverk 2011, please send mail to raflost [at] raflost [dot] is
Thanks to all participants of RAFLOST 2010.
It was a great experience and hope to see you again at RAFLOST 2011.
The opening of Pikslaverk is on thursday the 20th of May 2010 in Hafnarhúsið (the Reykjavik Art Museum). It starts at 20:00 and includes a lecture by Pall Thayer about his Microcodes and an audiovisual performance by Servando Barreiro. Also, Goodiepal will speak about various relevant things.
Wednesday 19th, 20:00, Iceland Academy of the Arts, Sölvhóll Concert Hall, Sölvhólsgata 13 (behind the building)
Tinna Þorsteinsdóttir premiers works by Magnús Blöndal Jóhannsson, Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson and Jesper Pedersen.
Program:
Miðvikudaginn 19. maí mun píanóleikarinn Tinna Þorsteinsdóttir frumflytja píanóverkið Sonorities II frá árinu 1968 eftir Magnús Blöndal Jóhannsson á raflistahátíðinni Raflost í Reykjavík og er því um merkisfrumflutning að ræða. Tinna mun leika píanóverk Magnúsar Sonorities I, II og III á tónleikunum, en þau eru skrifuð á árunum 1963-1972. Magnús samdi röð verka sem bera þetta heiti fyrir mismunandi hljóðfærasamsetningar. Píanóverkin einkennast af tilraunamennsku, en í Sonorities II, sem frumflutt er á þessu tónleikum, leikur Tinna alfarið á strengi píanósins með tólum og tækjum. Þriðja verkið í röðinni, Sonorities III, er samið fyrir píanó og tónband, en Magnús var einn helsti frumkvöðull elektrónískra tónsmíða á Íslandi og þótt víðar væri leitað. Verkið er mjög frjálst í formi, þar sem píanóleikarinn spinnur m.a. yfir hljóðbandið og þar má hlýða á ýmsa tónlistarstíla undir rokk- og djass áhrifum tíðarandans. Magnús var fæddur árið 1925 og hefði því orðið áttatíu og fimm á árinu, en þessi merki maður lést árið 2005. Önnur verk á tónleikunum eru í takt við tilraunagleði Magnúsar. Þar heyrist tónverkið Kalimba frá árinu 2005 fyrir dótapíanó og rafhljóð eftir austurríska tónskáldið Karlheinz Essl og tvö píanóverk verða frumflutt eftir tvö ung tónskáld, þá Guðmund Stein Gunnarsson (Harsamvaða) og Jesper Pedersen (Laser Cat). Í kjölfar tónleikanna verður heimildarmyndin Surtur fer sunnan eftir Ósvald Knudsen frá árinu 1965 um Surtseyjargosið sýnd, en Magnús samdi tónlistina við myndina. Tónlistin samanstendur af hljóðum úr gosinu sjálfu og er því um mjög athyglisverða og merkilega hljóðmynd að ræða.Tónleikarnir hefjast kl: 20 í Sölvhóli, sal Listaháskóla Íslands og eru hluti af hinni árlegu raflistahátíð Raflost sem fram fer þessa dagana. Aðgangur á tónleikana er ókeypis.
Monday 17th, 12:30-13:30, Iceland Academy of the Arts, Laugarnesvegur 91
Radical Computer Music
Danish/Faroese composer, Goodiepal (Gæoudjiparl van den Dobbelsteen) will talk about various radical excursions into computer technology and media art.
The Raflost+Pikslaverk festival is taking place in Reykjavik on the 14th – 22nd of May 2010.
All events are free of charge.
Addresses:
RAFLOSTi Workshop Leaders:
Raflost+Pikslaverk is sponsored by:
During the days of RAFLOST there will be other interesting things in Reykjavik as well:
On tuesday the 18th there is a concert of electronic music by students of Kopavogur Computer Music Center. The concert takes place in Salurinn, Kopavogi, about 20 minute bus trip just outside of Reykjavik. [ Sorry, this concert was moved to the previous week, and is not a part of the festival. Two pieces from that concert were featured on the Saturday 15.5. happening at Útgerðin. ]
The Iceland Art Academy music student concerts will be happening during 17.4 – 30.5 2010. An overview of the concerts can be found here. Its in icelandic but you see that people are marked by their instrument names, except “tónsmíðar” means composition and “nýmiðlar” means new-media.
Also, check the Reykjavik Grapevine for various events in the city.
As you may know, the volcanic activity is decreasing so we hope all flight transportation will be back to normal in time for RAFLOST.
In the meantime, here is a live webcam from the eruption.
Pre-festival workshops:
Friday the 14th of May
10:00-17:00 SUM Workshop, Iceland Academy of the Arts, Lauganesi
20:00 Concert, Tímahrak (IS) together with Lars Graugaard (DK) and Aki Asgeirsson (IS), Útgerðin, Grandagarði 16
Saturday the 15th of May
14:00-16:00 Arduino Workshop – Hakkavélin (Hackerspace Reykjavik)
20:00 Performance ***, Útgerðin, Grandagarði 16
The RAFLOSTi Workshop
Monday the 17th – Friday the 22nd of May
Iceland Academy of the Arts, Laugarnes, Visual Art building.
https://raflost.is/?page_id=70
RAFLOST Lecture
Goodiepal (DK/Fø)
Monday the 17th, 12:30-13:30, Iceland Academy of the Arts, Laugarnes, Visual Art building.
RAFLOST Lecture 2
Christopher Hales (UK/FIN)
Monday the 17th, 16:00-16:45, Iceland Academy of the Arts, Laugarnes, Visual Art building.
RAFLOST Concert – Piano and Electronics
Magnús Blöndal Jóhannsson (IS): Sonorities I (1963)
Magnús Blöndal Jóhannsson (IS): Sonorities II (1968) – world premiere
Magnús Blöndal Jóhannsson (IS): Sonorities III (1972)
Karlheinz Essl (AT): Kalimba (2005)
Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson (IS): New work
Jesper Pedersen (DK/IS): New work
Magnús Blöndal Jóhannsson (IS): Surtur fer sunnan (1965) – Surtsey Volcano Documentary
Piano: Tinna Þorsteinsdóttir (IS)
Wednesday the 19th, 20:00-21:30, Iceland Academy of the Arts, Sölvhóll, Concert Hall
Pikslaverk Opening
Páll Thayer (IS/USA) – Microcodes, lecture
Servando Barreiro (SP) – audiovisual performance
Thursday the 20th, 20:00-21:30, Reykjavik Art Museum / Hafnarhúsið
Pikslaverk Lectures
Linda Hilfing (DK) – Fjernstyring, lecture
Martin Howse (ENG) – island2
Servando Barreiro (SP) – presentation
Marco Donnarumma (SCT) – Golden Shield Music
Rafael Hidalgo Múgica (Tenerife) – Personal Weather Sensation
Friday the 21st, 13:00-16:00, Reykjavik Art Museum / Hafnarhúsið
RAFLOSTi Performance
Projects from the workshop will be presented
Friday the 21st at 20:00, Iceland Academy of the Arts, Laugarnes, Visual Art building
Pikslaverk Workshop
RIXC: Solar Music Workshop and discussions
Saturday the 22nd of May, 11:00-14:30, Útgerðin, Grandagarði 16
RAFLOST/PIKSLAVERK Grand Finale!
Short performances of different artists and art forms
Monika Frycova (CZ)
Juan Parra Cancino (CHL/NL)
Martinka Bobrikova (SVK/SWE) and Oscar de Carmen (ESP/SWE)
Goedipal (DK)
Teijo Pellinen (FIN)
Chris Hales (ENG/FIN)
S.L.Á.T.U.R. (IS)
Marco Donnarumma (SCT) – performance
Haraldur Karlsson (IS/NO) – Creating the now, or does it add something?
Netsky (IS)
Saturday the 22nd of May at 21:00, Útgerðin, Grandagarði 16
RAFLOSTI – a multimedia performance workshop as a part of the electronic art festival RAFLOST.
Iceland Electronic Arts Society (Raflistafélag Íslands) in collaboration with the Iceland Academy of the Arts organizes the RAFLOSTI workshop.
The RAFLOSTI workshop is open for all nationalities and is free of charge.
The workshop takes place in Reykjavik on May 17th – 21th, where participants will work together in groups, leading to a performance. During this week, lectures and performances on the RAFLOST festival (14th – 22th of May) will be available to workshop participants.
The workshop is intended for students of performance based art (real-time art): music, dance, video, experimental theater, multimedia etc as well as professional artists of any age. The goal is to provide a platform for artists of different diciplines to work together using their domain-specific skills in a multimedia environment.
Time
17.5.2010 – 21.5.2009
Place
Reykjavik, Iceland
Duration
5 days
Participants
max 30 participants
Level
Intermediate / Advanced
Working language
English
Workshop coordinator
Áki Asgeirsson, teacher of Electronic Music and New Media, Iceland Academy of the Arts.
Workshop Group Leaders
Sigrún Harðardóttir, Ríkharður H. Friðriksson, Margrét Elísabet Ólafsdóttir, Jesper Pedersen, Áki Ásgeirsson.
Goal
Participants get acquainted with the technical possibilities of connecting different art forms. Special emphasis will be on electronic and non-electronic interactivity and multimedia. Groups of 5-6 people of different backgrounds will work together with guidance from the workshop leaders in creating new works performed on the RAFLOST festival.
Content and methods
Participants will be presented with various tools for controlling, monitoring and connecting areas of different art forms. Workshop leaders will discuss relationships of different media and introduce their own work and multimedia performances by known artists. The leaders will also provide technical and aesthetic assistance if needed. Participants will share their knowledge of different fields within the group and contribute to the groups documentation of the new work.
Documentation
Make a short description of your group’s work during RAFLOSTI, including pictures and discussion of ideas and technology used. This material should be uploaded to the Raflost webpage after the final performance.
Acknowledgement
Students of the Iceland Academy of the Arts will get 2 ECTS for their participation.
All participants will get a certificate stating their participation upon completing the workshop.
Application procedure
Send mail to raflost@raflost.is explaining your motivation to participating in the workshop before march 12th. The email should include a short CV.
Selection criteria
Background knowledge in music, visual art, media, theater or other art forms.
Interest in cross-disciplinary work.
Ability to work in a collaborative and international group.
Prerequisite
Some skills in new media tools and technologies are beneficial.
Timeline
21.3.2010 Application deadline
28.3.2010 Information about the selection
16.5.2010 Arrival to Reykjavik, accommodation etc.
17-21.5.2010 The course itself
21.5.2010 Final performance
22.5.2010 Documentation and review.
23.5.2010 Departure from Reykjavík
Accommodation
Visiting participants will have to arrange their own accommodation.
Please bring with you:
If possible, a laptop computer and audiovisual equipment (digital camera, video camera, sound recording equipment, sensors, etc.)
Good ideas
Ability to work and live in an international group
Costs
The workshop is free of charge for all selected participants. The RAFLOST festival or the Iceland Academy of the Arts cannot pay for travel and accommodation for international participants. However, there are various funds that might support participation in the RAFLOSTI workshop. Participants have to be prepared to pay for meals or cook on their own.
More information
Send mail to raflost@raflost.is
Links
RAFLOST – www.raflost.is
Iceland Academy of the Arts – www.lhi.is
Reykjavik News – http://www.grapevine.is
Bus info – http://www.straeto.is/media/vetur2009-2010/HEILDARKORT_vetur_2009-10.pdf
Reykjavik Webcamera – http://www.or.is/UmOR/Vefmyndavel/
Slátur – www.slatur.is
Lorna – www.pikslaverk.org
Telephone numbers
Iceland Academy of the Arts: +354 5524000
Áki Ásgeirsson: +354 6619731
Ríkharður Friðriksson: +354 8646382
Emergency: 112
The RAFLOST workshop will start on monday the 17th of May 2010 and end on saturday the 22nd of May.
The application deadline for the RAFLOSTi workshop is the 21st of March 2010.
The RAFLOST 2010 festival will take place in Reykjavik around 14-22 of May in collaboration with Pikslaverk.
Students interested in the RAFLOSTi workshop should apply before March 21st 2010.
Through Pikslaverk there is an open call for performances, lectures etc. Information will be announced soon.
