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’.

http://zitegeist.net/

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.

http://haraldur.net/

Mengi, Saturday the 28th at 21:00

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

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:

• Music technology in interplay with music performance
• Real-time processing of musical sounds
• Musical communication
• Exercises for improvisation with musical sounds and sound events.

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

The RAFLOST festival 2016 will happen on the 25th – 28th of May.

Stay tuned!

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.

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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.

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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.