Event info

Dark Music Days 2023

Nordic Affect
Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir (fiðla/violin),
Marie Stockmarr Becker (víóla/viola),
Hanna Loftsdóttir (selló/cello),
Guðrún Óskarsdóttir (semball/harpsichord).
Special guests: Davíð Brynjar Franzson (gervigreind/artificial intelligence),
Úlfur Hansson (segulharpa/magnetic harp)

A wish to forge new relations through music making, prompted Nordic Affect’s artistic director to invite four composers to explore composition from the thematic angle of ‘+1‘.

Davíð Brynjar Franzson (IS),
Lilja María Ásmundsdóttir (IS),
Rebecca Bruton (CA) and
Úlfur Hansson (IS)

The result is a diverse set of works that work with the thematics, through the introduction of new instruments and electronics, hijacking of instruments as well as indeterminate score shaped by more-than-human directives.

Icelandic Ensemble Nordic Affect has been hailed as ‘multi-disciplinary force of nature’ (A Closer Listen), as gem in Iceland’s music life (Fréttablaðið) and for ‘ineffable synergy between the performers’ (San Francisco Classical Voice).
Founded in 2005, Nordic Affect was formed by a group of period instrument musicians, who were united in their passion for viewing familiar musical forms from a different perspective, and for daring to venture out into new musical terrain. The commissioning and performance of new works is integral to Nordic Affect’s mission as it has, from the group’s inception, combined new compositions with the music of the 17th and 18th centuries. Believing that exciting things happen ‘in the connection’, Nordic Affect has through the years established exciting collaborative relationships with composers, visual artists and producers. The artistic director of Nordic Affect since its foundation has been Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir. Nordic Affect is supported by the The Icelandic Ministry of Culture’s Music Fund and Reykjavík City.

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The concert is approx. an hour long, without interval.