Bak við bleikan skjá / Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson

Bak við bleikan skjá: Gestir Guðmundar Steins

Í Mengi laugardagskvöldið 4. mars klukkan 21

Miðaverð: 2000 krónur

Á þessum tónleikum verða flutt gömul og nýrri verk eftir Guðmund Stein Gunnarsson. Farið verður í gegnum rúma 10 ára sögu hreyfinótnaskriftar eða virkrar nótnaskriftar í hans verkum og leikin verk allt frá árinu 2007, en verkin verða flest leikin á upprunatölvur með „úrelt“ stýrikerfi þar sem tilvistarstig margra verkanna er afar viðkvæmt og því um einstakt tækifæri að ræða að heyra verk sem í sinni upprunalegu mynd endast kannski ekki mikið lengur.

Þá munu nokkur verkanna hljóta Íslandsfrumflutning - eða rúmur meirihluti dagskrár og Una Sveinbjarnardóttir mun frumflytja verkið Dokknor's Spithla sem kom til Guðmundar í draumi einmitt í flutningi Unu. Aðrir flytjendur verða Tinna Þorsteinsdóttir sem og tónlistarhópurinn fjölhæfi Fengjastrútur.

http://gudmundursteinn.net

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Behind Pink Screen: Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson with guests.

Concert dedicated to the music of Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson. Performed by Tinna Þorsteinsdóttir, Una Sveinbjarnardóttir & Fengjastrútur.

Starts at 9pm. House opens at 8:30pm.

Tickets: 2000 ISK

Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson (b. 1982) is an Icelandic composer, writing music based on irregular and non-pulse based rhythms. This often requires presenting the music on computer screen, moving.

He has been active with a composer collective in Iceland called S.L.Á.T.U.R. and taken part in founding its festival Sláturtíð and also been a member of the Jaðarber concert series and Fengjastrútur Ensemble and his own quartet Fersteinn.

His music has been performed by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Caput Ensemble, Reykjavík Chamber Orchestra, Ensemble Adapter, Ensemble l’Arsenale, Defun Ensemble, Aksiom Ensemble, Tøyen Fil og Klafferi, Ensemble CRUSH, Iceland Flute Choir, Duo Harpverk, Roberto Durante, Markus Hohti, Mathias Ziegler, Timo Kinnunen, Tinna Þosteinsdóttir and Timo Kinnunen.

Some of the festivals that have included Guðmundur’s music are Tectonics Reykjavík and Glasgow, MATA, Musikin Aika, Music for People and Thingamajigs, Nordlichter Biennale, Timisoara International Music Festival and ISSTC 2014 in Maynooth Ireland, where Guðmundur was also Keynote speaker.

His music has also been heard in venues such as Schloss Benrath (DE), Bergerkirche (DE), Wendel (DE), De Player (NL), The Stone (US), Secret Project Robot (US), Empty Bottle (US), Berkeley Trinity Chapel (US), Stanford (US), Princeton University (US), Videopool (CA), Literaturhaus(DK), Tivoli (DK), Notam (NO), Skånes konstforretning (SE) and Ålborg Kloster (DK).

Guðmundur Steinn studied at Mills College and Iceland Academy of the Arts and at summer courses in Kürten and Darmstädt. He has had numerous teachers including Alvin Curran, Fred Frith, John Bischoff, Atli Ingólfsson, Hilmar Þórðarsson and Úlfar Ingi Haraldsson.

http://gudmundursteinn.net