Sonix - evening of acousmatic music

The first concert of the planned series of listening evenings of international acousmatic music, will feature next to each other the compositions of well known composers, students and pedagogues of contemporary electroacoustic music and will use the surround sound as an integral means of expression. The project is being developed with the collaboration of the famous Institute of Sonology from The Hague and the Multimedia Composition of HF JAMU. Come to immerse yourself into a deep, concentrated, composed density of frequencies and sonic processes. The concert is concieved as pure listening of fixed media pieces, without a visual component, in the dark. Most of the the compositions are mixed and composed for 8-channel surround sound. The concert will take place in the main hall of the Theater in Orlí, Brno, Czech Republic.

Kees Tazelaar (NL)
Bjarni Gunnarsson (NL/IS)
Dan Dlouhý (CZ)
Miša Skalskis (LT)
Julio Molina Moya (E)
Jiří Suchánek (CZ)

Solo Live set at Ephémère, Studio Loos.

'Vicinity pulse' is an interactive electroacoustic composition that concerns scope, influence and fluidity of sonic events. It represents in some sense a simplification. Processes that focus on pulsations, clear events and straight synthetic pitches. It brings forward a certain view of mutual influence. How to engage with a running process, but also to let it evolve and be open to its influences?

It always takes a certain time to perceive important characteristics of a sound process. These boundaries and the ways of interacting with a changing development is an important element of the piece. 'Vicinity pulse' is composed in 2017 for a 4-channel environment.

Ephémère November 2017

Live set MGBG (me and Marie Guilleray) at Extrapol, Nijmegen.

'Ulkaanuitbarsting is onderdeel van een tweedelige serie over performancekunst. Wat kan een artiest in het moment neerzetten? Hoe kan hij de ruimte transformeren met zijn aanwezigheid, het publiek overdonderen, zo niet volledig van de sokken blazen? Vulkaanuitbarsting is het moment waarop alles uit elkaar knalt.

Zowel performers pur sang die zich specialiseren in vlugge, directe acties als muzikanten en geluidskunstenaars die werk maken met een performatieve inslag worden uitgenodigd. De opbouw van de avond is een performancefestival in het klein: er treden meerdere artiesten op die het publiek moeten overdonderen. Het centrale gegeven van Vulkaanuitbarsting is het uitdagen van de kunstenaar om het publiek op indringende wijze te verrassen in een korte actie waarin beeld en geluid samenkomen.'

Extrapool

Spatial Electroacoustic Music in Brno (curated by Kees Tazelaar).

Opening concert of the 19th annual international music festival of contemporary acoustic and electronic music and multimedia projects.

The festival is part of the FORUM OF NEW MUSIC.

- Programme: -
L’imaginaire du parleur by Marie Guilleray and Bjarni Gunnarsson
Stroma by Jaap Vink
Sterne Vielleicht (?)! by Marianne Dekker (video) and Kees Tazelaar (music)
Debris[2] by Darien Brito
EQUALE by Richard Barrett and Kees Tazelaar

Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno

Audio-DH.

Conceived and directed by Francisco López audio-DH is a collaborative project of epic proportions that weaves the sounds of 250 of The Hague’s creative minds into an exploration of the city’s vibrant sonic tapestry.

With the help of fellow composer Barbara Ellison and the artist platform iii, 50 curators were invited to rally the city's creative community, gathering contributions from composers, experimental musicians, noise makers, sound artists etc.. in the broadest and most inclusive definition of contemporary sonic creativity. The response was outstanding, resulting in a collection of 195 tracks by 250 artists.

On September 22nd at Korzo theatre, in collaboration with TodaysArt, iii has the pleasure to make the outcome of the project public.

The physical and online editions collecting the gathered materials will be presented during the opening reception. This will be followed by a performance in which HARING (Humanless Audio Recombinator for Infinite Novelty Generation), an especially designed software created by Francisco Lopez together with Andrea Vogrig and Darien Brito, will recombine the contributions from each participant artist in a dense sound mass generating a momentary collective identity of makers and listeners.

audiodh.nl / iii collective

Francisco López / Barbara Ellison

Darien Brito / Andrea Vogrig

Sonology, opening of the academic year.

8 September 2016, 19:30, Arnold Schoenbergzaal: opening of the academic year concert with multi-channel electroacoustic music and live performances.

Pieces/Music by me, Justin Bennet, Siamak Anvari, Kees Tazelaar and the Sonology Electroacoustic Ensemble.

Institute of Sonology

Audio-visual set with Cedric Dupire at Côté court festival, Paris.

À l'origine, une envie d'échange et des territoires communs : les matières, les textures et le mouvement. Un mouvement organique qui travaille le son granulaire et le grain de la pellicule. Un mouvement temporel qui s'affranchit des mesures et des cadences d'obturation.

Les images et la musique dialoguent, les projets se succèdent, initiés par l'un ou par l'autre : Dried up, O Sal Da Lua a outra experiencia, Grey Seeds ou Journal afghan. Les jouer en « live », c'est maintenir coûte que coûte ce mouvement.

Côté court

Solo set at the last Ephémère of the year.

A live take on ideas from my recent album ´Paths´

Other artists performing are Semay Wu, Jihae Ko & Kay Patru and Ilya Ziblat/Germaine Sijstermans/Ziv Taubenfeld.

Post Scriptum, 3 CD Set

A new 3CD release from the Institute of Sonology, featuring music by Sonology faculty members past and present: Richard Barrett, Gottfried Michael Koenig, Gabriel Paiuk, Jaap Vink, Joel Ryan, Marie Guilleray, Johan van Kreij, Bjarni Gunnarsson, Kees Tazelaar, Paul Berg, Barbara Ellison, Raviv Ganchrow, Justin Bennett and Konrad Boehmer, featuring electronic compositions and performances by Milana Zaric, Teodora Stepančić, Ekkehard Windrich, Evan Parker and the Sonology Electroacoustic Ensemble.

Institute of Sonology

Performance and masterclass at the Segnali 2016 festival in Perugia, Italy.

A live audio-visual performance with Cedric Dupire along with a masterclass and presentation at the Perugia Conservatorio.

Segnali 2016

New Album 'Paths' will be released on Granny Records in May 2016. More info soon.

Live, The Ester Debug

Sonology ShowLab presents: The Easter Debug!

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Live Generated AudioVisual performance
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doors open 21:00
music starts 21:30

Live, Fluister @ De Helling, Utrecht

An afternoon with drones and soundscapes together. Jules marches, Bjarni Gunnarsson Anne and Chris Baker will take you to another dimension, where your senses are stimulated. Please feel self pads or mats with you so you an overnight determines how you take the music to you.

The concert will feature works by:

Marsen Jules
Bjarni Gunnarsson
Anne Chris Bakker

De Helling, 15:00, 21.02.2016.

Azimuth #0

Azimuth #0 concert on the 20th of February in Studio LOOS. This event emphasizes on utilizing spatial (multichannel) location-specific system for performing electroacoustic music. The composers are invited to create or adapt their composition for this system.

The concert will feature works by:

Siamak Anvari
Peter van Bergen & Johan van Kreij
Bjarni Gunnarsson
Theo Horsmeier
Kees Tazelaar

Studio Loos on the 20th of February at 20:30.

MiniBEAST, BEASTdome Birmingham ElectroAcoustic Sound Theatre

Erik Nyström curates a miniBEAST session with electronic music projected over the BEASTdome multichannel system. The programme, which features new work by Bjarni Gunnarsson, Erik Nyström, and Lee Fraser, explores sonic and spatial aesthetics beyond received electroacoustic and computer music traditions

Live Ciné-Concert at Spoutnik Cinema, Genève

Multichannel, audio-visual performance in with Cedric Dupire at Spoutnik Cinema, Genève

"Notre collaboration a commencé il y a plusieurs années. À l’origine, une envie d’échange et des territoires communs : les matières, les textures et le mouvement. Un mouvement organique qui travaille le son granulaire et le grain de la pellicule. Un mouvement temporel qui s’affranchit des mesures et des cadences d’obturation.

Les images et la musique dialoguent, les projets se succèdent, initiés par l’un ou par l’autre : Dried up, O Sal Da Lua a outra experience, Grey Seeds ou Journal Afghan. Les jouer en “live”, c’est maintenir coûte que coûte ce mouvement."

The San Francisco Tape Music Festival

Ubieties will be included in the 2016 edition of the The San Francisco Tape Music Festival.

"America's only festival devoted to the performance of audio works projected in three-dimensional space, The San Francisco Tape Music Festival features four distinct concerts of classic audio art and new fixed media compositions by 32 local and international composers. Hear members of the SF Tape Music Collective, along with guest composers, shape the sound live over a pristine surround system (24 high-end loudspeakers) with the audience seated in complete darkness. It's a unique opportunity to experience music forming - literally - around you."

Rope to the Sky (Anniversary Collection)

A new piece 'Series' is included on the Ambientblog anniversary collection.

The album is a collection of exclusive tracks compiled and mixed on occasion of the 10th anniversary of Ambientblog.net.

The compilation is released on a limited edition credit card USB. It also exists as a digital release. It contains music by me, Yann Novak, Machinefabriek, Lawrence English, Monty Adkins, Janek Schaefer and many others.

Live set at Concertzender Nederland

Kraak Helder LIVE is a special radio-programme dedicated to the top-notch in experimental, electro-acoustic and electronic composers and sound-artists. In 60 minutes, the guests will explore their influences in music and sound in an interview with host Martijn Comes, after which they will do a 40 minute live performance.

You are able to attend the show in Utrecht, there are very limited seats available. Please contact martijn.comes@concertzender.nl for reservations. http://www.concertzender.nl/ plus on cable in the Netherlands.

MGBG and Einóma at Mengi

MGBG and Einóma will perform at Mengi on Saturday October 24th.

The concert will contain one long continous performance featuring both projects as well as solo sections.

Journal Afghan

'Journal Afghan' will be premiered at 'Festival Nouveau Cinéma à Montréal' October 18, Montreal, Canada.

The film is direceted by Cédric Dupire and the music composed by me.

Festival Nouveau Cinéma

Rewire Festival

MGBG (Me and Marie Guilleray) will play this years Rewire Festival on the 1+2 March 2015

Our set will take place at 22:30 on the Friday at the Korzo theater. Other artists performing at the festival include Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Holly Herndon, Grouper, Thomas Ankersmit, Sima Kim, Oren Ambarchi, Stoka Ensemble, Alessandro Cortini, Omer Eilam and many others.

Rewire

GRM, Présences Électronique

I will play a solo set at this Présences Électronique, organized by GRM and Radio France at le CENTQUATRE on the 6+7+8 March 2015

My set will feature a new multichannel piece for live electronics and will be performed on the Saturday the 7th. The concert will also feature music by Bernard Parmegiani (1927-2013), Ilpo Väisänen from Pan Sonic and Holly Herndon. Other artists performing at the festival include Antoine Chessex, Pete Swanson, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Esther Venrooy and many others.

Présences Électronique

MGBG at FALK new years concert

Marie Guilleray and me are playing as part of the FALK new years concert on the 30.12. at Mengi, Reykjavík

"MGBG is a duo of voice & electronics which operates in fixed-media electronic music, improvised performances, site specific, field-recordings, sound walks."

mgbg.net

"AMFJ is a a one-man power-electronics/industrial noise project from Reykjavík, Iceland.Whether fast and furious, or calm and pensive, all shows have intensity in common."

amfj1.bandcamp.com

"KRAKKKBOTs music is an ever evolving beast, incorporating metal, hip hop, diy electronics, feedback systems and pure frequencies in a sludgy dreamscape of nightmare dimensions."

krakkkbot.bandcamp.com

Sonology at Volkspaleis

I will be playing as part of the Sonology programn at the Volkspaleis in Scheveningen on the 24.10.

"The Institute of Sonology at the Royal Conservatoire will present three 45-minute blocks of multi-channel electronic music, ranging from radiophonic work, live electronics, field recordings, improvised music and fixed media compositions.

The concert will include works by a.o. Jan Boerman, Raviv Ganchrow, Bjarni Gunnarsson, Marie Guilleray, Johan van Kreij, Visa Kuoppala, Kees Tazelaar, Gabriel Paiuk and Kacper Ziemianin, The keyword is ‘listening’."

More information here

Rewire

Einóma will be taking part in Andrea Parker's exciting rewire project.

"For 60+ years art has adorned the sleeves of records, a visual expression of what's inside. We're about to Rewire this relationship."

Other artists include Cristian Vogel, Luke Vibert, Mike Ladd, Clatterbox, Andrea Parker and many others.

More information here

Audio visual piece at Ephémère

Me and Cedric Dupire will perform a new audio visual piece for the June edition of Ephémère.

This will be last edition of this years Ephémère series.

More information here

Verlat at Tectonics

I will diffuse a new 8-channel piece, 'Verlat' at the Tectonics festival in Reykjavík. I will be playing on the Saturday evening. Other artists include Alvin Lucier, Dumitrescu/Avram, Grouper and many others.

"Verlat is a 22 minute electroacoustic piece reflecting on different relationships of whole to part. It is composed in 2014 for an 8-channel immersive sound environment."

More information here

Einóma at bi.pola.re

Einóma will be playing at bi.pola.re festival in Toulouse, France. The performance will be in 6 channels with and features a great deal of new material.

Einóma est une collaboration entre deux musiciens et compositeurs islandais, Bjarni Gunnarsson et Steindór Kristinsson . Après avoir sorti deux albums acclamés ainsi que divers 12, remixes et compilation, le duo a récemment mis l'accent sur le live , la création musicale dont les premières impressions peuvent être trouvées sur les dernières releases 'Tvenna ' et Lost & Found.
Einóma fera un live en spatialisation sonore

More information here

Processes & Potentials, media

'Processes & Potentials' has been featured in various publications and programs.

Some reviews:

Fouter & Swick
Textura
A Closer Listen
The Field Reporter
Nordische Musik
Compulsion
Ambientblog.net
Darage-bang.com
Raftónar
Make Your Own Taste
Peter Wullen

Radio/Podcasts:

Resonance.fm
Theantidotepodcast
Epsilonia
Electrain de nuit, France Musique
Secret Brussels
Acoustic Frontiers

It was also among one of the 'album of the year' entries on NM

Einóma at Sónar Reykjavík

Einóma will be playing at Sónar Reykjavík. The festival is on the 13th.14th.15th February 2014. We will play late evening on the 15th. Other artists include James Holden, Jon Hopkins, Sachiko M, Ryuichi Sakamoto & Taylor Deupree + many more.

Sónar Reykjavík takes place at one of Europe's most unique concert venues: Harpa.

More information here

Einóma mix on Secret Thirteen

“Secret Thirteen Mix 096” is a many-layer and flexible audio collage that smoothly creates a continuous listening experience. The mix contains 43 magnificent pieces released between 1963 and 2012. These tracks influenced Einóma’s past production and indirectly shows their present musical intentions. The fact that such large amount of tracks are played in 1 hour perspective is quite impressive. According to the authors, there are parts where even 3-4 tracks are playing at the time and occasionally creating a sense that you hear semi-remixes, as when different compositions are merged together they slightly change their initial tonality, frequency and consistency. How tracks are thoughtfully stretched or compressed, cut, manipulated and synchronized together to form completely new sound architectures also could be heard."

"The way how Einóma develops recording’s tension, obscure emotional background’s aura and collision between sometimes even eclectic works is more than striking and clearly shows their longevous musical knowledge and experience. The basis of this mobile mix stands on the cathedral ambiance, cinematic melodic arrangements, pulsatory and very embossed rhythm layers that are related to techno and glitch music styles. A great pleiad of such notable artists as Ryoji Ikeda, Plastikman, Pan Sonic, Bohren & der Club of Gore, KTL, Senking and such authoritative composers as Bernard Parmegiani, Luigi Nono, Giacinto Scelsi, Karlheinz Stockhausen should immediately direct each inquisitive listener to what this mix should be all about: timeless expression of style, sophistication, tradition and progress. Einóma’s previously unreleased music fragments and solo works were also used in this mix."

Secret-Thirteen-Mix-096-Einoma

New album, 'Processes & Potentials'

Out on 3LEAVES on the 01.10.2013.

Processes & Potentials [3LEAVES 01.10.2013]

01 - Aukera
02 - Portholes
03 - Momentaries
04 - Signac
05 - Concomittance
06 - Pedicel

Music by Bjarni Gunnarsson
Mastering by Erik Nyström

Images by Cedric Dupire, taken from the book "génocide de fourmis" published by "éditions sans permission" in 2012
Artwork by Ákos Garai

[ ORDER ]

Einóma will be playing at Kaffibarinn, at the Extreme Chill night on the 05.06.2013

Live performance at the 'digital is dead' festival.

A live set in the gallery of modern art in Oxford, UK.

May 2nd 8pm
Mountains, US // Thrill Jockey
Tim Hecker, CA // Kranky

May 3rd 8pm
Bjarni Gunnarsson, IS // lamadameaveclechien
BJ Nilsen, SE // Touch

May 4th 1pm
Oval lecture & in conversation with Anne Hilde Neset @ Ertegun House

May 4th 8pm
Simon Scott, UK // 12K
Ex-Easter Island Head, UK // Low Point
Oval, DE // Mille Plateaux

More info here http://digitalisdead.org/

'Día de mucho, víspera de nada', version radiophonic on France Culture

Listen direct : http://www.franceculture.fr/player
Podcast : http://www.franceculture.fr/emission-l-atelier-de-la-creation-dia-de-mucho-vispera-de-nada-2013-04-16

Réalisation : Isabelle Yhuel
Direction artistique : Céleste Germe
Texte : Jacques Albert
Avec les voix de Maëlys Ricordeau et Jacques Albert
Composition sonore : Jacob Stambach et Bjarni Gunnarsson
Prise de son et mixage : Philippe Palarès

“Le vent est tombé, je crie Hélène je continue à crier pendant une bonne dizaine de minutes sans m’interrompre pour reprendre mon souffle, une sirène un phare un point de ralliement une ancre une alarme” Laponie suédoise. On marche pour le plaisir avec des skis et une pulka. Hélène et Jean s’aiment et se le montrent. Puis, le monde s’éloigne, s’estompe, dans le blanc du blizzard et dans la tempête, dans la folie. Avec Día de mucho, víspera de nada, Das Plateau - collectif de théâtre contemporain - propose une divagation sonore, une zone de doute ou de frottement, entre fiction dramatique et abstraction lyrique.

Fallacies at 'Composing Spaces' symposium

"Music for loudspeakers in the concert hall will be covered during a five-day symposium at the Institute of Sonology with lectures, discussions, workshops and concerts. A number of different systems for spatial reproduction of electro-acoustic music such as the WFS system from The Game of Life, and the Acousmonium from GRM will be set up in the in de Arnold Schönbergzaal. As well as fixed media and live compositions, sound art and field recordings by students and componisers of the present generation, there will be works including those of Jan Boerman, Luigi Nono and Iannis Xenakis on the programme."

My piece 'Fallacies' with Miguel Negrão will be diffused in the WFS system on the Thursday night.

Grey Seeds at LUFF

The film 'Grey Seeds' by Cédric Dupire and me will be presented at LUFF, the Lausanne underground film & music festival.

It will take part in the short film competition and shown in Cinéma Oblò at 18:10 and 20.10 on the 18th of October.

LUFF, is a film festival and music festival devoted to underground film and music. It is held each year in Lausanne, Switzerland. The festival rests on a not-for-profit group with an artistic mission. The primary goal of the LUFF is to present films that are generally unknown to the mainstream public, often experimental films. Films are screened during the day and evening, followed by live events featuring experimental music at night.

Acoustic Aclhemy in London

Acousmatic concert at City University

Bernard Parmegiani - 'La Roue Ferris' (10’40’’)
Marie Guilleray & Bjarni Gunnarsson - 'L'imaginaire du Parleur' (8 channels, 12’36’’)
Erik Nyström - 'Lucent Voids' (8 channels, 20'00")

-Interval-

Georgia Rodgers - 'Make it Snappy' (6'30")
Peiman Khosravi - 'Vertex' (6 channels, 15'00")

Performance Space, College Building, City University London, St John Street, EC1V 4PB

MGBG Studio Loos presentation

Presentation of work made during a week-long residency at Loos where the idea was to explore a live aspect of our collaboration with voice and electronics but also in other configurations.

Some music of our recent album Korabie will also be featured as well as solo work from both created especially for this occasion.

Studio Loos Residencies

Einóma @ Todays Art

Einóma will play at the Todays Art festival on Saturday 22 September at 01:15~02:15 in the Lucent Danstheater, Den Haag.

TodaysArt is a festival concept that revolves around the presentation and development of adventurous contemporary visual and performing arts.

"On 21 and 22 September, over 100 international acts and artists will converge in the city center of The Hague to treat the visitors to large-scale projects, world premieres and compelling acts and exhibitions that will flow together into an adventurous and unforgettable experience. From electronic music and club nights to interactive installations, from audiovisual modern dance to neo-classical concerts, from contemporary media art from Turkey to a 3-day symposium on art and society, TodaysArt is all about a voyage of discovery through the latest work and thoughts of groundbreaking contemporary thinkers."

Lecture at UNM 2012

I will be giving a lecture at the UNM music festival, a festival of young Nordic composers which will be held in Reykjavík 28th of August – 1st of September 2012.

This year’s festival is dedicated to Music Innovation where Lectures and Workshops on the topic of innovation in instrumentation and performance are held during the festival.

My talk will focus on strategies for composing real-time electronic music. It is motivated by an interest in problems concerning the interaction and relationships between materials and processes and their influence on development and form. Different processes create musical compositions and an associative approach will be discussed where the aim is to relate these various aspects. A compositional environment implementing these ideas will be introduced along with a discussion of music inspired by them.

Competition Destellos

My piece 'Aukera' has been nominated by the Grand Jury of the Competition Destellos 2012.

The competition, created by initiative of Dr. Elsa Justel, has as main objectives to stimulate creators and promote one of the most representative musical expressions of our time.

The members of the jury were: Trevor Wishart (UK), Luigi Ceccarelli (it), Elizabeth Hoffman (UE), Luis Naon (AR-fr), José Manuel Berenguer (Spain), Eric Broitman and Vincent Laubeuf (Motus-France).

LMALC compilation

New LMALC compilation released with works by Me & Jaike Stambach, Einóma and many others.

"After 2 years of obscure activity, Belgiums Lamadameaveclechien imprint is back with an outstanding compilation of rather gloomy tracks from former LMALC artists and new projects that emerged around the same people. Most of the tracks are choosen and compiled out of older material which has been sent to the label between 2002 and 2011. Stricly limited to 225 copies with unique handmade artwork, the tape comes along with a download voucher."




DOG010 / V.A. - Soundtrack to the End of the World

'O Sal Da Lua' at the Côté court festival

The film 'O Sal Da Lua, A outra experiência' by Cédric Dupire and Cristiana Miranda will be screened at the Côté court festival in the competition of 'Expérimental – Essai – Art vidéo'.

The music in the film was composed by me and has been nominated for the SACEM price for the best original soundtrack.

The festival will take place at the Ciné 104 space in Pantin et en Seine-Saint-Denis, Paris from the 6 to 16 of June.

'Fallacies' in Sonar, Barcelona

The Wave Field Synthesis system will be shown in the 2012 Sonar Festival in Barcelona from the 14th to 16th of June.

It will reside at the MACBA museum during Sonar. The piece 'Fallacies' by me and Miguel Negrão will be played as well as pieces by Trevor Wishart, Ji Youn Kang, Erik Nystrom, Barbara Ellison, Iannis Xenakis and others.