Sounds of Geldingadalsgos lava falling to the ground. Recorded on Zoom H4n from a good distance, on March 21, 2021. Recording is unprocessed. It was very hard to get a clear, noise-free recording because of helicopter traffic, crowd noise and heavy wind, but this bit seems to be good. Will upload more recordings as I sift through them.

Feel free to download and use in your projects, but please credit Halldór Eldjárn (https://hdor.is), if possible. 🙂

Geldingadalsgos (Field Recording)

Listen to 'FLATEYRI' on Spotify: spoti.fi/2Wa2ByD
Watch the session on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1IhmRA_igI

Halldór Eldjárn is an Icelandic electronic musician. Travel Kit is an ongoing series of impromptu music making sessions at random locations. I use all sorts of battery powered instruments and recording devices and set it up in places that inspire me.

Sometimes I have programmed a sequence beforehand and record the performance, but the songs are always open-ended for exploring and improvising. The soundscape and acoustics of the surroundings form the basis for each session.

Session #1 was recorded by the seashore in Flateyri in the Westfjords of Iceland. Using only the Elektron model:samples sequencer and a Zoom H6 recorder, the project starts off with a minimal composition that evolves as it progresses.

Song written, recorded and mixed by Halldór Eldjárn
Mastering by Bergur Þórisson

Travel Kit #1: Flateyri

Watch the session on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OZwOAmek1k

Gullbringa : Travel Kit #2 was recorded at my family's summer house in the north of Iceland. The house is over 100 years old and is called Gullbringa. The session takes place in front of this beautiful old window up in the sleeping loft. Through the half-open window you can hear the subtle sound of the peaceful surroundings outside. I gathered some rocks from the hill above the house, and use it as percussion in the intro. Recorded in July 2021, in the middle of the night, which is very bright at that time of year.

Travel Kit is an ongoing series of impromptu music making sessions at random locations. I use all sorts of battery powered instruments and recording devices and set it up in places that inspire me. Sometimes I have programmed a sequence beforehand and record the performance, but the songs are always open-ended for exploring and improvising. The soundscape and acoustics of the surroundings form the basis for each session.

Song written, recorded and mixed by Halldór Eldjárn
Mastering by Bergur Þórisson

Get the song on Bandcamp: https://halldor.bandcamp.com/track/gullbringa

Travel Kit #2: Gullbringa

desert
— noun
a waterless, desolate area of land commonly confused with pudding

Desert

Listen on Spotify: http://bit.ly/SoundAsleepHdor

Sound Asleep

This is a recording from a live performance of the computer generated piece Poco Apollo by composer/programmer Halldór Eldjárn.
The original work is accessible at http://pocoapollo.hdor.is

Poco Apollo (Live @ Made in Space CPH 2017)

Logn (Skeljar OST)
Song made for short film Skeljar by Ísak Hinriksson
Song and lyrics Halldór Eldjárn & Agnes Björt Andradóttir
Mixed by Halldór Eldjárn
Mastered by Styrmir Hauksson

Logn (feat. Agnes Björt Andradóttir)

A short tune made for the campaign #Hugud for gedfraedsla.is

Hugrún

demo from 2015 
one take, two-track recording

gear: machinedrum, mpc1000, moog slim phatty, arturia minibrute, wasp filter clone, alpha juno 2, mackie mixer

Jucy Techno Session 25des15

Crowdfunding for the vinyl release has just opened! Head over to https://bit.ly/PocoKarolina 

Tunglryk is a track from the album 'Poco Apollo' by Halldór Eldjárn, which is due to be released in October 2019 on Mengi Records.

Tunglryk

Steinar

Lending

Slétta

Brot úr tónleikaupptöku frá frumflutningi verksins „Tímaeining“

Tímaeining (brot)

Solo material by Halldór Eldjárn

My other band: SYKUR (soundclound.com/sykur),

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