Pars Pro Toto / Hluti fyrir heild, release
Publication Year
2021
Instrumentation
Piano and Sound Design
Duration
9 min
Premiere
Matthias Halvorsen playing piano. Released on 19th of February, 2021
Description
The music seems to be slowly going under water, as if it is drowning. The change happens slowly, and our senses become numbed by the beauty of the gradual tranformation, like the slowly shrinking Icelandic glaciers.
List Of Compositions
Duration: 5 min
A solo piano composition commissioned for EPTA Piano Competition for children younger than 14 years old.
Duration: 3 min
Sixth track from Brotabrot album, built on inteviews with former inmates at The Icelandic Women’s Prison, housing both female and male people.
Duration: 2 min
Fifth track from Brotabrot album, built on inteviews with former inmates at The Icelandic Women’s Prison, housing both female and male people.
Duration: 4 min
Forth track from Brotabrot album, built on inteviews with former inmates at The Icelandic Women’s Prison, housing both female and male people.
Duration: 4 min
Third track from Brotabrot album, built on inteviews with former inmates at The Icelandic Women’s Prison, housing both female and male people.
Duration: 3 min
Second track from Brotabrot album, built on inteviews with former inmates at The Icelandic Women’s Prison, housing both female and male people.
Duration: 5 min
First track from Brotabrot album, built on inteviews with former inmates at The Icelandic Women’s Prison, housing both female and male people.
Duration: 3 min
Nineth track from Quite the Situation album. The foundation for this work was articles written during WWII about Icelandic women’s relationship with the foreign soldiers.
Duration: 1 min
Eigth track from Quite the Situation album. The foundation for this work was articles written during WWII about Icelandic women’s relationship with the foreign soldiers.
Duration: 5 min
Seventh track from Quite the Situation album. The foundation for this work was articles written during WWII about Icelandic women’s relationship with the foreign soldiers.
Duration: 1 min
Sixth track from Quite the Situation album. The foundation for this work was articles written during WWII about Icelandic women’s relationship with the foreign soldiers.
Duration: 3 min
Fifth track from Quite the Situation album. The foundation for this work was articles written during WWII about Icelandic women’s relationship with the foreign soldiers.
Duration: 3 min
Third track from Quite the Situation album. The foundation for this work was articles written during WWII about Icelandic women’s relationship with the foreign soldiers.
Duration: 1 min
Second track from Quite the Situation. The foundation for this work was articles written during WWII about Icelandic women’s relationship with the foreign soldiers.
Duration: 6 min
First track from Quite the Situation album. The foundation for this work was articles written during WWII about Icelandic women’s relationship with the foreign soldiers.
Duration: 16 min
Performance for electronics and drums, where they are processed in real-time into the electronic sound scape. Includes video.
Duration: 15 min
Score to a documentary by Arndís Benediktsdóttir for Íþróttasamband fatlaðra, Sports Federation of the Disabled in Iceland.
Duration: 10 min
Score to a short film by Sigmar Ingi Sigurgeirsson, a synthetic score about a trouble Icelandic teen and his relationship with his younger brother.
Duration: 8 min
Score to a short film by Haraldur Bjarni Óskarsson. The dark score is performed by a violin, cello, and voice over an electronic foundation.
Duration: 18 min
Score to a short film by director Shane Watson. The film was nominated to the students Oscar’s and is about a black, gay man facing challenges while living in the Bay Area.
Duration: 15 min
A podcast show, an interview with Marcus Adams, an inmate on death row. It is about the wait for death on California’s death row.
Duration: 4 min
Dance short film by choregrapher Arndís Benediktsdóttir where she challenges which movements can be considered “a dance”.
Duration: 12 min
Dance short film by choregrapher Elísabet Birta Sveinsdóttir. The film is inspired by Arnold Bröclin’s painting, The Sacrid Woods, 1882.
Duration: 12 min
Music to a dance performance by choreographer Yang Yang. Yang Yang was frequently inspired by chinese movements, costumes and folk dances.
Duration: 15 min
Music to a dance performance by choreographer Yang Yang. Collaboration with Sophia Shen where we both create the music and a video.
Duration: 4 min
Very old musical composition that I do not have much to say about, but I want to fill in this box so it is the same size as the rest of the boxes.
Duration: 3 min
Electronic piece built on interviews with children from a popular 90s talk show program called Á tali hjá Hemma Gunn.
Duration: 10 min
Very old musical composition that I do not have much to say about, but I want to fill in this box so it is the same size as the rest of the boxes.
Duration: 30 min
A children’s piece about the happy calv Fjörkálfur and a pig that steals the Northern Lights, Hrekkjusvín. A collaboration with author Anna Marsíbil Clausen.
Duration: 15 min
Written with real-time notation where led lights control the percussive part but the double bass player is performing a score written in Pure Data Coding software.
Duration: 8 min
Brass octate inspired by an Icelandic folk song called Sá ég einn í svartri brók which translates to “I saw one in black underwear”.
Duration: Loop
The audience walk through an invisible guitar, triggering guitar sounds. If more people interact with the invisable strings different samples are triggered.
Duration: 12 min
The left hand is always the same but the notation for the right hand is constantly changing, making it so hard that it’s impossible to perform “correctly”.
Duration: 15 min
The violin is recorded in real time and the sound is manipulated to create a sound scape. After the performance the piece was distroyed.
Duration: 3 min
The Radio Story is played in the speaker system but it is also the instructional notation for the piano player. A play with text and instructionbased notation system.
Duration: 6 min
An electronic piece coded with SuperCollider software, an environment and programming language for real-time audio synthesis and algorithmic composition.
Duration: 5 min
An electronic piece performed on an Moog IIIp synthesizer and recorded on an Adat Tape Machine, where every sound is carefully sculptured.
Duration: 5 min
Blond Beauty is an electronic music and video piece. The piece builts on found footage and music samples from the 60s.
Duration: 20 min
A 30 minutes performance to Kim Anno’s video piece, focused on the fragility of nature and in part drawing from Rachel Carson’s book, Silent Spring.
Duration: 20 min
Inspired by the concept of cosmic accleration.The concept is considered one of the most significant unsolved mysteries in astrophisics.
Duration: 12 min
Challanging the traditional notation systems. Writing in traditional notation for a typewriter and then text score for traditional instruments.
Duration: 15 min
Found WWII love letters from a thrift store as a foundation for her text, which I then used as inspiration for the musical composition.
Duration: 15 min
Just one of those things that you bite into, some like and others prefer something different. Either way, we will all experience the same sugar rush.
Duration: 16 min
The piece is written with animated notation, where the white circling notation video becomes a part of the visual musical piece.
Duration: 4 min
First single release from my album Thoughts Midsentence. It is, in fact, this it the first time I sing on one of my own tracks.
Duration: 20 min
Transforming an old, upright piano into a new self-playble instrumend and simultaneously a music composition based on data about earthquakes in Mt. Bárðabunga.
Duration: Loop
Reflecting is a series of pieces from my visits to fortune tellers. It derives its meaning from its audience, and what each individual believes or doesn’t belive.
Duration: 9 min
The beauty of nature is represented by the sound of a piano playing a melodic composition, in contrast with the visual representation of an ever-growing threat. Single.
Duration: Loop
The beauty of nature is represented by the sound of a piano playing a melodic composition, in contrast with the visual representation of an ever-growing threat. Installation.
Duration: 25 min
Artwork composed of three elements – a bookwork, an album release, and an installation. Folding into one another, creating a three-dimensional story. Album Release.
Duration: Loop
Artwork composed of three elements – a bookwork, an album release, and an installation. Folding into one another, creating a three-dimensional story. Installation.
Duration: 21 min
Inmates stories intertwined with music asking questions about the relationship between imprisonment and entertainment. Album Release.
Duration: Loop
Inmates stories intertwined with music asking questions about the relationship between imprisonment and entertainment. Installation.