Dodda Maggý

Dodda Maggý b. 1981 is an Icelandic artist, filmmaker and composer based in Reykjavík. She has a BA in Fine Arts from The Icelandic Academy of the Arts and an MFA from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and the Nordic Sound Art program. While exploring the emotional language of video and music mediated through performance Dodda Maggý creates lyrical work portraying invisible or mentally projected elements such as perceptual experiences and altered states of consciousness. Producing audio/visual installations, films, music, sound art or silent moving images Dodda Maggý attempts to externalize the internal dimensions of dreams, memories and imagination.

Erik Parr

Erik Parr is a Reykjavik-based artist originally from Seattle, Washington. His current work could be described as systems art. His recent projects include Third Mind (2013), a large scale, generative video installation combined with live musical performance; One Hundred Thousand Landscapes (2011), a multi-channel sound installation that creates a perpetually evolving sonic landscape from an online database of over 100,000 sound samples; and Vital Interchange (2009), a sculptural sound and light installation assembled from obsolete vacuum tubes into an audio-reactive light sculpture.
He received a BFA in the Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS) program and a BA in Comparative History of Ideas.

http://cargocollective.com/erikparr

dj. flugvél og geimskip

dj. flugvél og geimskip creates outer-space horror oriented electronic music.  She sings about the wonders of the universe and spatial infinity.  With music made of lively rythms, cool bass and varied vocals, dj. flugvél og geimskip’s performance is filled with lights, smoke and nonsense.

KverK

KverK is an experimental and immersive musical performance based on live electronics, real-time sampling and processing. Tom Manoury, aka KverK, develops interactive tools and intuitive interfaces allowing great performing freedom. Seeking to break the rigid and sequenced environment often inherent to computer-based music, he creates his music in a very organic way, producing an eclectic and personal sound.
www.soundcloud.com/monsieurtom

 

Program 2014

Thursday 22nd of May

  • 18:00 – 20:00 OPENING: Gagnvirk …, Sölvhólsgata 13, second floor
  • 20:00 CONCERT: AJO ensemble – Sölvhóll, LHÍ Concert Hall
    • Hilmar Þórðarson/Haraldur Karlsson – Hljóðs bið ek
    • Karlheinz Stockhausen – Kontakte

Friday 23rd of May

  • 20:00 RAFLOSTi: Workshop Performance – Laugarnes, LHÍ Visual Arts Building
  • 22:00 RAFLÖSTUR – Paloma
    • dj. flugvél og geimskip
    • Portal 2 xtacy
    • Páll Ivan frá Eiðum og ógeðslega hljómsveitin hans

Saturday 24th of May

  • 15:00 – Pure Data Samkoma – Siglingafélag Reykjavíkur, Ingólfsgarði
  • 20:00 – Stórleikar/Final Performance – Sölvhóll, LHÍ Concert Hall
    • KverK
    • Dodda Maggý
    • Tehri Marttila
    • Eric Parr
    • Hlöðver Sigurðsson
    • Svart fax

 

Dates for RAFLOST 2014

The RAFLOST festival 2014 will be held on May 22nd – 24th in various venues in Reykjavík.

Also, in collaboration with the Iceland Academy of the Arts and the DAMA network, the RAFLOSTi workshop will be taking place on May 19th – 23rd.

The program is not yet finalized, so if you have a suggestion for a performance/installation/collaboration etc, please send us a message: raflost@raflost.is

 

 

 

RAFLOST 2013

Watch out Reykjavik. It’s gonna happen!

Raflost 2013 is taking place on 21.-25. of May. Stay tuned for artist and venue updates!

Hestbak

Hestbak was formed in 2003. The band released the album “Gratin” in 2004, “Mjolk” in 2005 and the album, “Airwaves”, in 2007.. Hestbak has performed in Reykjavik, Seydisfjordur, Chicago, Berlin og New York. The band plays progressive music and seeks its influence from different directions. The band members are all active in the Icelandic music scene as well as taking part in international music projects. All band members have backgrounds in rock and classical music but use Hestbak as a vehicle for their creative output. The band Hestbak includes Áki Ásgeirsson, Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson, Ingi Garðar Erlendsson, Jesper Pedersen and Páll Ivan Pálsson.

RafSpuni – ElImpro

Listamannakomplex, Skipholti 11-13, 21st of May, 20:00

Markmið Spuna er að stuðla að almennum spuna. Alltaf. – Aim of Spuni is to encourage general improvisation. Always.

Fjölbreyttur spuni frá fjölbreyttu fólki frá fjölbreyttum löndum. – Diverse impro from diverse people from diverse countries.

Dagskrá er auglýst á staðnum. – Program will be announced on site.

Steina Vasulka

Hafnarhúsið, Reykjavík Art Museum, 19th of May, 21:00

Violin Power

When I with my husband Woody rambled into video in 1969, we already owned an audio tape recorder. Audio and video in our view was always a parallel, interwoven art material. The eighties were ripe with rumors that the Japanese were collaborating with American software engineers on a unifying interface where a controller, typically a keyboard, could be connected to play another instrument. The name of this phenomena was Musical Instrument Digital Interface or MIDI. Eventually MIDI could interface anything to everything, including our videocassette tape recorder, and in the early nineties we connected my acoustic violin to a “pitch to MIDI” device. It was fun, but limited fun because I could move the tape only a few meters, back and forth or faster and slower. If I however had a laser disc player and MIDI violin, I could with a stroke of the bow jump to various locations, somewhat akin to life editing as a performance.  After performing this way for a few years, I landed in 1996 a co-directorship at STEIM (the studio for electro-instrumental music) in Amsterdam, which in those years was very involved in interfacing MIDI to acoustic instruments. When I arrived, there already was a MIDI/VIDEO software being written by Tom Demeyer, initially named Image/ine and later IMX. In addition to random access, speed and direction, this software gave me a plethora of video effects and memory locations. The clips in my performances are selected as much for the sound as video contend, and are a mix between prepared and improvised play.

MC Broko

OPEN ARTIST
“a linux distribution for artist”
presentation and music performance
by MC Broko

A linux distribution of Florian Stöffelmayer based on ubuntu. It tries to combine free software into a suite for creative people. Driven by the fact that there are so many cool applications out there, but most people do not know them, openArtist tries to be a complete package of creative software, combined with a heavily customized and optimized user experience.

MC Broko
a czech musician, at the moment living and volunteering in Graz – Austria .He was used to play with DIY hardcore/punk bands and
after leaving the country started his journey of getting into composing and recording music and video with mainly open source software .Since summer on the way with his experimental one man shows.

http://mcbroko.net/