This song I made on a long train ride. I used the noises from the train and the people sitting in the train, along with the ticket checker who was enjoying hearing himself on the speakers... so he's my vocalist! Everything else is just improvised first take on the spot. One of the melody you hear is the sound from a kid's practicing bagpipe.. Because later on the same day I was babysitting and one of the kids had a practicing bagpipe - so of course I hit record...sampled, and played!

I hope you'll enjoy this one..



Train Ride

This is a remix of three songs; 'The Need To Be', 'Time Dot' and 'Another Brick In The Wall'. It's just bits and pieces, chopped up, and changed totally. If you listen closely, you can hear a deep voice singing "Another Brick In The Wall".

Violalla

Soundproduction exam 2014 @ Aalborg University.
The point was to use something harmonic, melodic or rythmic from 'Robbie William - Let Me Entertain You' and make it sound like Brian Eno - Music for Airports 

For this project i used sounds from a glas bowl, grand piano (XY stereo), metal xylofon, violin and harmonica.

Freyas theme

Icelandic lullaby performed by Kolbrún Gunnarsdóttir & Christian Loving

Sofdu Unga Àstin Mín

when words are not enough

Podcast theme song that I composed and produced for Beauty Panelet.

Random photo of me from a visit in Gdansk
Pm me here or through IG @kolbrunmusic for collab

Theme song for a podcast

I've used some sounds from the many different sound environments I've met on my way. Fx an ice cube machine in Iceland, my wood stove at home, an old antique telephone, antique violin, jar in a fancy neighboorhood in south of France and an old ATM in a small town in Italy. The beat is broken. And everything is build up around the wood stove sounds. 


Wouldn't You Like That

En sang om livet i kødindustrien og en opfordring til at vælge liv fremfor død. 

Vil du vælge livet for mig?

For this song I used sampled instruments such as an old harmonica from 1940. A hunting flute (ironically). Rain. Elevator. Skateboarders. All sounds that I've recorded over the time.
I hope you'll enjoy this song! Especially the lyrics.

Calm Down

This startet out as a guitar jam with myself. Then came the melody and the vocals. I decided to make this one up beat and I couldn't help myself.... bringing some of Chris Isaaks "Wicked Game" into the song, as they are very similar. Hope you'll enjoy it!

Jealousy

This is an Icelandic song composed, produced and performed by Kolbrún Gunnarsdóttir. It's called "Leyndarmál" which in Icelandic means secret. This repetitive song aims to express the melancholy in having a secret that's eating you up. 

Leyndarmál

Produced and performed by Kolbrún Gunnarsdóttir

Hold My Heart

Every sound you hear, except for the bass and vocal, is recorded in an Icelandic forest called "Höfðaskógur" right next to Hvaleyrarvatn in Hafnarfjörður, Iceland. 

This imaginary soundscape was made as a part of an art exhibition called "Listalundur" where 35 artist all over the world met to make art in and with the forest, to celebrate its 70 year birthday... Happy birthday forest! 

This soundscape was made so people could walk in the forest and listen to the forests sounds that particular day, while also listening to my recordings of it's sounds which are obviously edited... or as some musicians like to say 'fucked up'. 

When me and a friend recorded the forest sounds used in this imaginary soundscape, it was wintertime and when people heard it at the art exhibition it was summertime.. which in itself is a different soundscape. But I was in a weird mood which is reflected in this imaginary soundscape. Imaginary because I fucked the sounds up real good and changed the soundscape to something yet unheard in this forest.


Thanks to IsaBella Praher for starting and managing this project and to my brother Jökull Gunnarsson for putting up speakers in the forest since I wasn't able to be in Iceland at that time. Thanks to him people could actually listen to my imaginary forest soundscape in the forest. I am so grateful.



Imaginary Forest Soundscape

My take on Ólafur Arnalds - Particles.

Production: Kolbrún Gunnarsdóttir
Vocals: Kolbrún Gunnarsdóttir

Particles

Vi kan ikke med sikkerhed vide hvad dyr tænker og føler, men her er mit bud på hvordan de individer som hver dag reduceres til produkter i det animalske landbrug har det i processen.

Gå ind på www.vgpt.dk og giv en vælgererklæring. Dyrene fortjener bedre!

vil du vælge livet for mig?

Here is my song Jealousy reversed and pitched down three semitones. The chopped voice is from my song Leyndarmál. The track also features Christian Loving improvising on top of it all with his electronic set-up. Feel free to comment all the different sentences you hear.

Jealousy Reversed feat. Christian Loving

ég þreifa mig áfram í kolsvörtu myrkri
ég er týnd eins og alltaf, rata ekki heim
með frosinn eld í æðum að reyna að greiða úr flækjum
geng og geng en finnst ég komast ekki neitt

kaldar nætur, frosin tár
dansa ein í myrkri
kaldar nætur, frosin tár
dansa ein í myrkri

svarta nóttin gleypir mig alltaf
auð og tóm, ísköld eins og jökull
sál mín á floti í djúpri á
hellirinn mig gleypir, frýs eins og grjót

kaldar nætur, frosin tár
dansa ein í myrkri
kaldar nætur frosin tár
dansa ein í myrkri

dansa ein í myrkri

I am a musician who loves to incorporate different found sounds from my environments into my music. Every creaking door, loud ATM etc. is noticed, recorded & reused. 

From Reykjavík, Iceland - Living in Aalborg, Denmark.

Musical education
Bachelor degree in popular music and sound production @ Aalborg University Masters degree in performance and production @ Aalborg University


https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/kolbrn/leyndarml
https://kollagunn.wixsite.com/kolbrunmusic

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