Schedule 2014

18:00

Foyer
Opening

Alvin Lucier :

Music on a long thin wire Sound installation for audio oscillator and electronic monochord (1977)

Realization: Hauke Harder

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19:00

Eldborg
Orchestral concert I

Páll Ivan frá Eiðum :

Mirror Neuron System (WP)

Valgeir Sigurðsson :

Eighteen Hundred & Seventy-Five (2013)

Cathy Milliken :

Earth Plays 1 (WP)

Intermission

Skúli Sverrisson :

Kaldur sólargeisli for voice and orchestra. Text: Guðrún Eva Mínervudóttir (WP)

Intermission

Alvin Lucier :

Diamonds (1999)

Iceland Symphony orchestra
Soloist: Ólöf Arnalds
Conductor: Ilan Volko

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21:00

Northern Lights
Lucier I

Alvin Lucier :

Opera with objects (1997) for performers with resonating objects

Music for Solo Performer (1965) for enormously amplified brain waves and percussion

Performed by the composer and Fengjastrútur

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22:00

Eldborg
Grouper

Grouper :

Solo Performance

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23:00

Northern Lights
Lemur

Lene Grenager :

Moving the Stones for quartet

Bjørn Fongaard :

Concerto for Contrabass and tape

Salvatore Sciarrino :

Canzone di Ringraziemento for solo flute

Lene Grenager :

Solo

Hild Sofie Tafjord :

Solo

Lemur:
Bjørnar Habbestad , flutes
Michael Duch, double bass
Hild Sofie Tafjord,  french horn
Lene Grenager,  cello

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18:00

Foyer
Lucier II

Alvin Lucier :

Gentle Fire (1971)
Chambers (1968)
Reykjavík Memory Space (1970)

Fengjastrútur

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19:00

Eldborg Hall & Northern Lights Orchestral Concert II

María Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir :

1001 - for bowed metal (WP)

Intermission

Bergrún Snæbjörnsdóttir :

Esoteric Mass for winds (WP)

Davíð Brynjar Franzson :

Longitudinal study #2 (WP)

Intermission

Lemur :

Critical Band (WP) A site-specific composition for 4 orchestral groups

Lemur / Critical Band is supported by Fund for Performing Artists, Arts Council Norway, Norwegian-Icelandic Cultural Program, Music Norway, The Nordic Culture Fond and Nordic Culture Point

Iceland Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Ilan Volkov
Lemur

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21:15

Foyer

Alvin Lucier :

Gentle Fire, Chambers, Reykjavík Memory Space

Fengjastrútur

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22:00

Northern Lights sound-image-language

angela rawlings :

echolology

Hallveig Ágústsdóttir :

kLAnK

Gyða Valtýsdóttir :

Touch Done

With Lumps :

Improvisation

Performed by Angela Rawlings, Hallveig Ágústsdóttir, Gyða Valtýsdóttir and With Lumps:  Neil Davidson, guitar, Fritz Welch, drums, with guest; Ilan Volkov, violin

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12:00

Kaldalón
Níðingsverk

Rúnar Magnússon :

Níðingsverk (WP)

A multichannel work for various analogue synthesizers, politics and computers - 4 hours

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16:00

Foyer
Youth Orchestra

Robert Ashley :

Crazy Horse in Memorian - symphony (1963)

Stephen Montague :

In Memoriam Jim Tenney(2006)

ISO Youth Orchestra
Conductor: Ilan Volkov

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17:00

Northern Lights
Lucier III

Alvin Lucier :

Two circles for quintet (2012)

Members of ISO

Music for Piano with One or More Snare Drums (1992)

Nothing is real for piano and amplified teapot (1990)

Tinna Þorsteinsdóttir, piano
Alvin Lucier, teapot

Vespers (1968)

Hestbak 

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18:00

Foyer
Asparagus piss raindrop

"Trans Poncho in Posse" (WP)
Introduction of a three hours long performance

Neil Davidson, Julia Scott, Fritz Welch, Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson & Michael Duch

Supported by Creative Scotland

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18:30

Northern Lights
Dumitrescu and Avram

Iancu Dumitrescu :

Utopias for Iceland (WP)

Ana-Maria Avram :

Parhelion for ensemble and computer sounds (WP)
Nouvel Archae for computer assisted voice

Iancu Dumitrescu :

Eruptions for ensemble and computer sounds (WP)

Ana-Maria Avram
Members of ISO
Conductor: Ilan Vokov

Supported by Romanian Cultural Institute

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20:30

Foyer
Asparagus Piss Raindrop

"Trans Poncho in Posse"
Conclusion

Neil Davidson, Julia Scott, Fritz Welch, Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson & Michael Duch

Supported by Creative Scotland 

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21:00

Silfurberg
Bjarni and Ghostigital

Bjarni Gunnarsson :

Verlat (WP) for an 8-channel immersive sound environment

Ghostigital :

I Am Sitting On A Long Thin Wire for voice and electronics (WP)

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