Decoda
http://decodamusic.org/
June 2013, Hamrar, Ísafjörður
Við Djúpið Music Festival

Heim (2013) - I. - ég er kominn heim...

Slowind
http://www.slowind.org/
DKDM workshop, March 2014

Two Movements for Wind Quintet (2014)- II. - Homage

Workshop with the JACK quartet at DKDM, November 2013

Hrafnaþing (2013) - first movement

Ventus (Julius Ditlevsen and Yngvild Vivja Haaland Ruud)
Grundvigs Kirke, 19th of november 2014

Waves (2014)

Ventus - Julius Ditlevsen, flute and Yngvild Vivja Haaland Ruud, accordion
Recorded at DKDM by Ragnheiður Jónsdóttir

Waves (2014) - studio version

Performed by Brák Baroque Band, led by Elfa Rún Kristinsdóttir
Skálholt Cathedral, 18th of july 2015
Commissioned by Skálholt Summer Concerts

Fold
I - Prelude
II - Hægt og sígandi
III - Mynstur
IV - Passacaglia

Fold (2015)

Elísabet Einarsdóttir, soprano
Elektra Ensemble

Recording from the premiere of the piece, on the opening concert of Dark Music Days 2016 in Kaldalón, Harpa Concert Hall, where music by members of Errata Collective was performed.

I - mantra / mantra
II - millispil / interlude
III - þitt eigið ævintýri / your own adventure
IV - hali / coda​

About the piece:
The piece, which is in four interwoven movements, is a research on the concept 'control'. Each movement tackles the concept from a different perspective. Most of the piece is composed of small fragments of musical material that the group navigates through based on a loose system, in a previously undetermined way. The piece is therefore never exactly the same. In two movements that make up the biggest part of the piece (mov. I and III) the soprano controls which way to navigate through the piece, while the ensemble has to pay attention to where she's going in order to follow her. The lyrics of the piece mostly refer to things happening in the actual piece, making the piece a kind of a self-contained ritual.

The idea for this open structure came from the book series "Choose Your own Adventure", which I read when I was a kid, but in these books the reader could control the actions of the protagonist by choosing between different pages to continue reading on.

Stjórn (2016)

TAK Ensemble: Charlotte Mundy, Laura Cocks, Liam Kinson, Ellery Trafford & Marina Kifferstein,

July 12, 2016, Björtuloft, Harpa, Reykjavík

From the Filter
I - Canadian-Pills
II - From the Desk of Barrister Samson Mohamed

A video of the performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AkoJ6Z-G_4

From the Filter (2016)

íTríó - Helga Kristbjörg Guðmundsdóttir, Jón Þorsteinn Reynisson and Jónas Ásgeir Ásgeirsson
http://www.trioitrio.com/

For All The Wrong Reasons (2017)

Esbjerg Ensemble and Rei Munakata
Danish National Academy of Music's concert hall, May 19th 2017

The word dendrochronology refers to the scientific method of dating the age of a tree by counting it's year-rings. The piece was written in eleven days as a kind of a speed writing exercise, where I marked the start of each work day with a small signal which is a kind of an aural representation of the roman numeral system.

Dendrochronology (2017)

ÞRÍR GLUGGAR / THREE WINDOWS
I - strætógluggi (fálkaskoðun) / bus window (kestrel spotting)
II - þinn gluggi (Austurveggur) / your window (East wall)
III - okkar gluggi (á kvöldin) / our window (in the evenings)

María Ösp Ómarsdóttir, flute
Sofia Kongsgaard Lang, viola
Anne Sofie Gørvild, cello

Concert recording from Koncertkirken, Copenhagen
21st of November 2018

Recording: Juan Felipe Arce Bayona, Chang Liu & Yangyadi Deng
Mix: Chang Liu

þrír gluggar (2016)

Fríkirkjan í Reykjavík, may 2012

María Ösp Ómarsdóttir - solo flute
Baldvin Ingvar Tryggvason - clarinet
Hilma Kristín Sveinsdóttir - clarinet
Sigrún Jónsdóttir - clarinet
Einar Bjartur Egilsson - organ
Finnur Karlsson - electronics

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