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í Borgarbókasafninu, Gerðubergi. 23.nóvember klukkan 13:00-15:00.

City Library, Gerðuberg. 23rd of november, 1 PM – 3 PM // english below

Leiðbeinendur/Worshop leaders: Sam Rees & Jesper Pedersen

REGISTER HERE: https://borgarbokasafn.is/vidburdir/born/fribud-dotabudin-velmennasmidja

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/events/969920294899120/

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Fyrir krakka og ungt fólk. Hámark 16 þátttakendur.

Bókun á vef Borgarbókasafnsins: https://borgarbokasafn.is/vidburdir/born/fribud-dotabudin-velmennasmidja

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Á þessu skemmtilega og skapandi námskeiði verður gömlum rafmagnsleikföngum breytt í spennandi hljóðfæri og teiknivélar með einföldum tökkum og tólum. Með því að taka leikföngin í sundur og setja saman aftur á nýjan hátt munu þátttakendur á þessu námskeiði búa til ný hljóð og einstök teiknimynstur.

Leiðbeinendurnir hvetja til verklegra tilrauna og munu virkja ímyndunaraflið. Þáttakendur þurfa ekki að kunna neitt, bara hafa áhuga á skrýtnum og sérstæðum hlutum, eins og hvernig mótorar og leikföng geta breyst í framandi og flott listaverk.

Á námskeiðinu læra þátttakendur að:

• Taka leikföng í sundur á öruggan hátt.
• Nota rofa til að stjórna mótorum og hreyfingu.
• Búa til einfaldar vélar sem teikna eða búa til hljóð.
• Finna skapandi lausnir með öðrum þátttakendum.

Það má koma með sín eigin ónothæfu rafmagnsleikföng til að taka í sundur eða nota dót sem verður á staðnum.

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For kids and young people. Maximum 16 participants

Register here: https://borgarbokasafn.is/vidburdir/born/fribud-dotabudin-velmennasmidja

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In this fun and creative workshop, kids will learn how to transform old toy robots into exciting instruments and drawing machines using simple tools and switches. By taking apart the robots and reassembling them with new functions, participants will create devices that make sounds or draw unique patterns.

This workshop encourages hands-on exploration and imagination, with no prior experience needed. Through playful experimentation, kids will discover how mechanical parts like motors and gears can be repurposed to make their own interactive creations.

What you’ll learn:

• How to safely take apart and repurpose toy robots
• Using switches to control motors and movements
• Building simple machines that draw or make sounds
• Creative problem-solving and teamwork

What to bring: Any old or broken toy robots you’d like to repurpose (optional), or use the scrap materials provided.

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Airplane & Spaceship 

Electronic musician from outer space

dj. flugvél og geimskip (Airplane & Spaceship) is the one-person orchestra of Steinunn Hardardottir that draws influences from a thousand worlds. Defined as psychedelic electronic dance-music from outer space, the music is a mix of playful beats, cool bass, catchy melodies and unusual vocals. Her live performances are highly memorable and the music deals with alien worlds, mysteries, and surrealistic dreams. Her concerts are a strange blend of music, storytelling, poetry, and theater. The audience is left feeling like they are in a vivid dream or have traveled to outer space. dj. flugvél og geimskip has released three full length albums. Two of her albums won the Icelandic Kraumur Music Awards, her album Our Atlantis was nominated as the best electronic album of 2019 at the Icelandic Music Awards and her album Nótt á hafsbotni was nominated as the Best Pop Album at the Icelandic Music Awards 2015 and received raving reviews from both Uncut and The Arts Desk amongst others. 

 “Utterly charming and hugely entertaining, she could have taught The Knife a thing or two about staging and The Flaming Lips that spectacle can also work on an intimate scale.” 

-The Arts Desk

“Sometimes an artist’s recorded output cannot adequately prepare you for the experience of seeing them live, and Iceland’s dj. flugvél og geimskip is the perfect example. She bounces onto the stage looking like a cross between Lauren Mayberry and Björk, her pile of synths decorated with gold streamers and topped off with a color-changing disco-ball-light-thing. What follows almost feels like a piece of performance art – dj. flugvél taking on the role of a bizarre storyteller, spinning wonky electronica into tales of evil cats, deals with the devil, spaceships, being cloned by aliens and I swear to God I’m not making this up. She’s quite clearly in a world of her own, but dj. flugvél og geimskip is very accommodating of visitors, so you might as well stay a while.”

-Drowned in Sound

Music:

Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/artist/1o2bSYi5f5sNMAzxwjvwol?si=_TJSFE6yTaCKIf0b1dZ9zQ

Silfrún Una Guðlaugsdóttir’s works reflect a fascination with man-made sounds and the sincerity within them, often appearing as sound installations, performances or video works.

She is curious about the spectrum of the voice, how it can be used to tell stories through song, mimicking instruments, machines, foley sounds or by humming your favourite tune.

Her artistic process revolves around the interaction of sounds, movements and objects, drawing inspiration from soundpoetry. 

Alongside her practice she collaborates with Tara Njála Ingvarsdóttir, forming the performance duo Tara and Silla. The main themes of their works are friendship, social situations and celebration, which appear mainly in the form of installations, performances and/or video works.
Silfrún’s works along with the works of the duo Tara and Silla have been exhibited in Kling og Bang, Ásmundarsalur, Kjarvalsstaðir, Nýlistasafnið, Harbinger and group exhibitions in The Hague, and Vienna. 

Silfrún Una graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in fine arts from the Iceland University of the Arts in 2020. 

The First LOVE FM Synthesizer

FM synthesis and wave morphing made effortless and fun!

Nýtt íslenskt fyrirtæki; Love Synthesizers er nú í óðaönn að undirbúa framleiðslu á sínum fyrsta hljóðgervli. Hann heitir First Love (Fyrsta ástin) og notast við FM aðferð til að skapa hljóð. FM hljóðgervill virkar þannig að ein hljóðbylgja hefur áhrif á aðra og úr verður nýtt hljóð. Þessi aðferð við hljóðgerð hefur hingað til verið flókin og margir því ekki nýtt sér að fullu möguleika FM við gerð tónlistar og hljóðhönnunar. 

Okkur hjá Love langar að breyta nálguninni á FM með okkar nýja hljóðfæri og gera hana aðgengilegri. Við leggjum okkur fram um að búa til einfaldan og skemmtilegan hljóðgervil sem bæði er góður í að búa til hljóð, skemmtilegur og hljómfagur.

Tónlistar-og myndlistarmaðurinn Steinunn Eldflaug Harðardóttir, einnig þekkt sem dj. flugvél og geimskip, varð óvart hluti af hópnum á sem stendur að gerð First Love hljóðgervilsins og hefur tekið þátt í hönnunarferlinu og farið ásamt Love FM á tvær alþjóðlegar ráðstefnur að kynna hann fyrir almenningi sem og fólki innan ,,bransans”. Hún mun sýna okkur hvernig hljóðgervillinn virkar og gera sitt besta til að sýna fram á að FM getur í alvörunni verið einföld og skemmtileg aðferð við tónlistar og hljóðhönnunar. Einnig mun hún sýna hvernig hún nýtir sér synthann í sinni tónlist og segja frá aðkomu sinni að verkefninu, sem og að svara spurningum. 

https://www.lovesynthesizers.com/about

ENGLISH

The FIRST LOVE synthesizer has an engaging interactive interface on a 7″ touchscreen with real-time graphics as well as hardware controls that shape the output of its sound generating module.  It gives unprecedented real-time control over the intricate variables of an FM synthesizer in a fast-flowing user friendly manner.

https://www.lovesynthesizers.com/

Schedule

SATURDAY 23rd of NOVEMBER

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13:00 – 15:00 Dótabúðin-Robot Workshop – Reykjavik City Library, Gerðuberg, Breiðholt

• Sam Rees
• Jesper Pedersen

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16:00 – 18:00 Opening / Performance – Hafnarhaus, Tryggvagata 17

• LOVE Synthesiser / Steinunn Eldflaug Harðardóttir
• Deepa R. Iyengar
• Silfrún Una Guðlaugsdóttir

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20:00 – 22:00 Concert – Hafnarhaus, Tryggvagata 17

• Ægir Sindri Bjarnason
• Helgi Pétursson
• Steinunn Eldflaug Harðardóttir

Helgi Pétursson (1962) útskrifaðist úr Tónfræðadeild Tónlistarskólans í Reykjavík þar sem kennarar hans í tónsmíðum voru Þorkell Sigurbjörnsson Atli Heimir Sveinsson og Þorsteinn Hauksson. Síðar lauk hann einnig MA námi í Microtechnology in Music Education frá University of Reading.

Á námsárum Helga var töluvert af verkum hans flutt opinberlaga, þar á meðal rafverk og einnig voru flutt eftir hann verk eftir að hann lauk námi, meðal annars á þeim árum sem hann var starfandi sem tónlistarkennari á Húsavík. Helgi hefur mjög lengi haft mjög mikinn áhuga á raf og tölvutónlist og einnig á tölvutækni almennt og starfaði hann um árabil sem forritari.

Eftir að hann hætti sem starfandi tólistarmaður lá tónsköpun hans að mestu niðri en nú hefur hann tekið upp þráðinn að nýju með verkinu Blindfugl/Svartflug. Blindfugl/Svartflug er samið í júní 2024 og er byggt á samnefndu ljóði Gyrðis Elíassonar frá 1986 sem Helgi les í heild í gegnum verkið.

Hugmyndin að þessu verki er mjög gömul því það hafði verið draumur Helga að gera þetta verk nánast alveg síðan hann heyrði Gyrði lesa ljóðið upp í útvarpi fljótlega eftir að það kom út. Það hafði mjög sterk áhrif á hann. Verkið má segja að sé viðleitni til þess að undirstrika þau hughrif og stemmingu sem ljóðið vekur með margbreytilegum hljóðheim og búa þannig til nokkurs konar hljóðmynd með ljóðinu.

ENGLISH

Helgi Pétursson (1962) graduated from the Department of Theory and Composition at the Reykjavík Conservatory of Music where his teachers in composition were Þorkell Sigurbjörnsson, Atli Heimir Sveinsson and Þorsteinn Hauksson. Later he also completed an MA degree in Microtechnology in Music Education from the University of Reading, UK. During Helgi’s student years, quite a few of his works were performed in public, including electronic works and works by him were also performed after he finished his studies, including the years when he was employed as a music teacher in Húsavík.

Helgi has for a very long time been very interested in electronic and computer music and also in computer technology in general, and he worked for several years as a computer programmer. After he retired as a working musician, his composition was mostly stopped, but now he has picked up the thread again with the piece Blindfugl/Svartflug.

Blindfugl/Svartflug was written in June 2024 and is based on a poem of the same name by Gyrðir Elíasson from 1986 which Helgi reads in its entirety throughout the piece. The idea for this piece is very old because it had been Helgi’s dream to make this piece almost ever since he heard Gyrðir read the poem on the radio soon after it was released. It had a very strong effect on the composer. The piece can be said to be an attempt to emphasize the impressions and moods that the poem evokes using a varied sound world and thus create a kind of sound painting of the poem.

www.deepariyengar.com

Deepa R. Iyengar kannar rými til að uppgötva í þeim hvað vantar, er ósýnilegt eða óraungert. Verkin myndast oft sem innsetningar þar sem hún setur fram orkuna, upplýsingarnar eða möguleikana sem leynast í tómum rýmum eða þögnum. Viðfangsefni hennar tengjast oft valdi, stjórn og frelsun.

Deepa er með M.A.-gráðu í myndlist frá Listaháskóla Íslands. Hún er búsett á Íslandi, þó upprunalega frá Bandaríkjunum, þar sem hún lauk S.M. (M.Sc.) í heila- og hugvísindum frá Massachusetts Institute of Technology, og B.A. í eðlisfræði og stjörnufræði frá Carleton College.

Deepa hefur tekið þátt í einka- og samsýningum á Íslandi, í Bandaríkjunum og Litháen. Hér á landi hefur hún sýnt verk meðal annars á Listasafni Reykjavíkur – Hafnarhúsi, Kling&Bang, Ásmundarsal (sem hluti af listamannasafninu D.N.A ), og Nýlistasafninu.

Á hátíðinn mun Deepa kynna nýtt verk sem hún kallar SÍÐASTA HLJÓÐIÐ

Hljóð var fyrsta efnissamspil alheims, þrýstibylgjur sem þenjast út í 400.000 ár áður en ljósið skein. Hljóð er yfirgripsmikið, alltumlykjandi, margvítt, summa efnisupplifunar sem mótar og mótast af rýminu sem það breiðist út í og flötunum og áferðunum sem það mætir. Hljóð tengir það-sem-hefur-verið við það-sem-er-að-skella-á, endurómar dýpstu eðlishvöt mannsins, kallar á viðbrögð hvort sem það er til góðs eða ills; til sáttar eða stjórnunnar; til að gleðja eða afvegaleiða, pynta. Hversu langt þar til við sigrumst á hljóðrófinu öllu? Og hversu langt þar til það leiðir til loka okkar? Og séu það lokin, hvað tekur við? Algjör þögn? Eða mun hljóð halda áfram að óma með þunga þess sem var: vera síðast, sem það var fyrst?

Frekari upplýsingar er að finna með því að skanna QR kóðann

Deepa R. Iyengar explores spaces in order to discover within them what is missing, invisible, or unrealized. Her preoccupation with the hidden manifests in installations which are dominated by loaded silences of space or time. Frequently her topics have to do with power, control, and liberation.

Deepa has participated in various solo and group shows in Iceland, Lithuania, and the U.S. In Iceland, some of the places she has shown are Reykjavík Art Museum (Hafnarhús), Kling&Bang, The Living Art Museum, and Ásmundarsalur (Gryfjan) as part of the artist collective D.N.A.

Deepa holds an M.A. degree in Fine Art from the Iceland University of the Arts. She is a resident of Iceland, though originally from the U.S., where she attained an M.Sc. in Brain and Cognitive Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a B.A. in Physics and Astronomy from Carleton College.

ENGLISH

At Raflost Deepa will show new work she calls THE LAST SOUND

Sound was the first material interaction of our universe, pressure waves expanding outward for 400,000 years before the universe became transparent to light. Sound is pervasive, omnipresent, multidimensional, a sum of material experiences molding and being molded by the space in which it propagates and the surfaces and textures it encounters. Sound connects what-has-been to what-is-about-to-happen, resonating with the deepest instincts in humans, calling for response whether for good or for evil; for harmony or for control; to bring joy or to disorient, manipulate, torture. How long before we conquer the whole sonic spectrum? And how long before that leads to our end? And if there is an end, what then? Absolute silence? Or will sound continue to resonate with the weight of what was: to be last, as it was first?

For the audio sources follow this qr code

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Ægir er trommari og tilraunatónlistarmaður frá Reykjavík. Í janúar 2020 frumflutti hann einyrkjaverkefni sitt, þar sem hann kannar nýjar hljómlendur með hjálp safns gítarfetla og annarra hljóðbreytitækja; fyrst um sinn bakvið trommusett en í seinni tíð hefur hann nýtt sér í auknum mæli breiðara úrval hljóðefna (rödd og hringóm spila þar stóra rullu).

Hann hefur gefið út 8 sólóplötur undanfarin fjögur ár, hver þeirra heimur út af fyrir sig.

Á Raflost mun Ægir flytja hljóð/myndverkið BRIDGES for breathing disaster ásamt bróður sínum, Óðni Degi. Óðinn hefur áður forritað myndefni fyrir tónleika Ægis – en í þetta skiptið byggði hann heim sem hann mun kanna, beygla og bjaga í rauntíma, meðan Ægir gerir slíkt hið sama með hljóð.

ENGLISH

Ægir is a drummer and experimental musician from Reykjavík. January 2020 saw the debut of his solo project, where he explores new sonic avenues with the help of a collection of guitar pedals and other sound-manipulating devices; initially from behind the drum kit, lately using and abusing a wider variety of sound sources (voice and feedback play big roles).

He has released 8 solo albums over the last four years, each one a world of its own.

At Raflost, Ægir will perform the audio/visual work BRIDGES for breathing disaster together with his brother, Óðinn Dagur. Óðinn has previously programmed audio-reactive visuals for Ægir’s live shows – but this time he built a world that he will explore, mangle and distort in real time, while Ægir does the same with sound.

NOVEMBER 23rd – Saturday – stay tuned – in Hafnar.Haus – exciting !

The 15th RAFLOST festival will be held in Reykjavík on the 13th-15th of May in various places, including Mengi (and possibly a newly formed micronation).  Artists of all forms of electronic expression are invited to send suggestions for installations, performances, music, videos etc to   r a f l o s t @ r a f l o s t  .  i s

the RAFLOST festival is approaching!  confirmed dates are 23-24-25th of may, in collaboration with experimental performance space MENGI and ICELAND UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS

The RAFLOST festival will be held in Reykjavík, various locations, in collaboration with the Iceland Academy of the Arts, and Mengi venue for art and performance on the 24th – 26th of May 2018.

The RAFLOSTi workshop is open for students of the IAA, and through Opni Listaháskólinn anyone who wants to attend can apply here: http://www.lhi.is/opni-listahaskolinn

Artist that are interested in performing at the RAFLOST festival 2018, please send an email to:
r a f l o s t @ r a f l o s t . i s

Title: Δ

New work for two thereminis and four knives.

RAFLOST will be held on the 21st – 23rd of May together with Pikslaverk, a part of the Pixelache network. Also, the Raflosti workshop will be held in collaboration with the Iceland Academy of the Arts.  The program schedule will be announced soon…