Raging Waves (Geysast öldur ólguveg)

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Today, another hurricane this winter (how many we have had already? I lost my count), for Reykjavik the red - the highest - weather alarm. At night, gusts are expected to reach 200 km/h. There was also a storm last weekend, and I was in Bifröst in the northwest of Iceland. It started blowing in the afternoon and continued around the clock. For 24 hours the wind blew so loudly that neither earplugs nor noise-canceling airpods helped. It was a strange night. The next day it was still windy, and as I sat in the small cottage, I felt that I was slowly losing my mind from the constant roar. I decided to occupy my ears with something, fire up my portable studio and compose something to the wind outside the window.

The music is accompanied by a recording of this hurricane and a fragment of a recording recorded in 1935, "Vogur kraup í kastbyl tind" from the ISMUS catalog. Sigríður Hjálmarsdóttir sings.

The poem, by Kristinn Stefánsson, is about the raw power of nature. The valleys bend under the strong wind that brings astonishment and fear. As night falls, the cold sea splashes in great waves and the earth raises the curtain on moving magma. It is hard to find a more adequate description of what happened when I created this piece.

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released February 21, 2022
ISMUS, Sigríður Hjálmarsdóttir

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Noise From Iceland Reykjavík, Iceland

I am MA of musicology, graduated at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and a graduate of the State General Art School in Zakopane in the violin class. I compose and produce electronic music. As a violinist, I collaborated with electronic music producers in Poland and abroad.

I am also a music journalist and reporter. ... more

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