Quite the Situation / Meira Ástandið, installation
Publication Year
2021
Instrumentation
Installed with four video projectors, 6 speakers or more + subs. Recorded: Violins, Cellos, Electronics, Piano, Bass, Electronic Guitar, Synthesizers
Duration
Loop
Premiere
The Reykjavik Art Festival 2020 (2021), Harpa Concert Hall, Iceland, 2021
Description
Quite the Situation is composed of three elements: audio and video installation, book work and an album release.Three dimensional story, tied together with the strings of time and yet unbound by it.
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.