" I am increasingly interested in the following: radical non-identity, contingency-structure, nonlinearity, nonlocality, rhizome, non-fixity, antigenealogy, nonhierarchy, separation dynamics, 'realm of pure relationality', physicality, intensity-instability, anti-chronology, nondeterminism, non-correspondence, pure notation, the indefinite, ungrounding, involuntary movement, 'time out of joint', virtuality structure, quantum vacuum, sensation engineering, silent music, perception-of-perception, strange/chaotic attractors, aesthetics of radical immanence ... "
______NEWS - upcoming (and bygone)__________
the premiere of my new piece, Desiring-Machines, will be performed by Ensemble Intercontemporain on October 04, 2012 in Centre Pompidou, Paris
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Awarded an Artist Stipend (starfslaun listamanna, 2012) from the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, Iceland
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will perform my piece, Nine Tensions, on October 20, 2011 in Centre Pompidou, Paris (link)
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will premiere my piece, Non-vanishing vacuum state, on October 22, 2011 in Leuven, Belgium during the TRANSIT Festival, followed by performance on two more festivals. The piece was co-commissioned by Huddersfield festival (hcmf), TRANSIT and Dark Music Days
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Nordic Music Days Commission for Orchestra
The piece will be performed by the Iceland Symphony Orchestra on the opening concert of the Nordic Music Days 2011, which are held in Iceland this year
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will premiere my piece, Quanta, on February 05 2011 in Graz, with additional concert on Feb 18 in Vienna, the piece was commission by impuls for klangforum wien
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Adapter Ensemble is performing "Seven intensions" June 13th 2010 in Reykjavik and at Time of Music Festival, Viitasaari, Finland, 10 July 2010, + final concert in Berlin on Nordlichter Biennale 25th of September 2010
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CommissionThe commission was awarded through the Tremplin Programme 2010, organised by IRCAM and Ensemble Intercontemporain. The piece will be performed during the 2012-13 season
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Jonathan Harvey Scholarship
The scholarship is awarded for full-time PhD study in composition at the CeReNeM
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Recent performances:
04-10-2012 - Ensemble Intercontemporain performed Desiring-Machines (Centre Pompidou, Paris)
22-11-2011 - ELISION Ensemble performed Non-vanishing vacuum state (hcmf //, Huddersfield, UK)
22-10-2011 - ELISION Ensemble performed Non-vanishing vacuum state (TRANSIT, Leuven, Belgium)
20-10-2011 - Ensemble Intercontemporain performed Nine Tensions (Centre Pompidou, Paris)
06-10-2011 - Iceland Symphony Orchestra performed Repetition of Repetition (Nordic Music Days, Reykjavík)
05-04-2011 - Johnny Chang performed Negative Dynamics-I(a) (University of Huddersfield)
18-02-2011 - Klangforum Wien performed Quanta (Konzerthaus, Vienna)
05-02-2011 - Klangforum Wien performed Quanta (Helmut-list-Halle, Graz)
09-2010 - Ensemble Adapter performed Seven Intensions (nordlichter biennale, Berlin)
07-2010 - Ensemble Adapter performed Seven Intensions (Time of Music festival, Finaland)
06-2010 - Ensemble Adapter performed Seven Intensions (FRUM festival, Reykjavik)
04-2010 - DuoPlus performed Conditions -posttensions-
11-2009 - ensemble cras performed Conditions -posttensions- II
11-2009 - ELISION Ensemble performed Tendencies
09-2009 - ensemble cras performed Conditions -posttensions- II
09-2009 - Holland Symfonia performed Apertures
08-2009 - ASKO|SCHÖNBERG performed Nine Tensions
08-2009 - Ensemble Adapter performed Seven Intensions
08-2009 - Nordic Sinfonietta performed Nine Tensions
05-2009 - DuoPlus performed Conditions -posttensions-
05-2009 - Ephraim van IJzerlooy performed Marml
02-2009 - Caput Ensemble performed Nine Tensions
11-2008 - Insomnio performed Nine Tensions
05-2008 - Ligeti Academy performed Nine Tensions
02-2008 - DuoPlus performed Conditions - posttensions-
05-2007 - Nieuw Ensemble performed Conditions