Runar Magnusson

Runar at LAK – Festival of Nordic Sound Art 6-9 sept 2012

September 5, 2012

tags: Copenhagen, festival, LAK, nordic, Rúnar Magnússon, Soundart

On September 6 – 9, architects and designers will join forces with musicians and sound artists. Together they will transform the old factory grounds at Prags Boulevard 43 on Amager into a festival site sizzling with experimental sound, when LAK – festival for Nordic sound art – takes place for the first time.

I am doing the the final performance at this fine 4 day festival at sunday sept.9. At 5pm.

Check out their program of talks, performances, installations and more at LAK.

This is probably going to be my last performance this year.

The Hafler Trio at EMS – release on Hljóðaklettar.

July 7, 2012

tags: Andrew McKenzie, drone, durational, EMS, Hljodaklettar, limited, loop, music, Rúnar Magnússon, release, The Hafler Trio, Tommi Keränen, workshop

I just finished a 10 day stay at EMS in Stockholm together with Andrew McKenzie (aka The Hafler Trio/h3o) and Tommi Keränen. We were working on a new The Hafler Trio (h3o) project.

This project will be released on Hljóðaklettar. Also, this will be a workshop ending with a long performance. H3o will be doing a 3-5 day workshop, where participants learn various technics involved in performing the 13 hour scored piece. This will involve various theoretical and practical exercises, training the participants in Deep Concentration, Learning & Perception, System Analysis, Physical Technics and other fields. This was successfully tried out with students of the Royal Academy of Music Aarhus, Denmark in 2009. Participants were very happy about the result and many have expressed their interest in participating again if possible.

We are looking for partners to make the workshop / performance happen in winter 2012 and in 2013.

Please contact @ Hljodaklettar if you find this interesting.

The release will be very special edition. On an external drive. With 13 hour pieces in surround sound.

More info on that later.

Another h3o release will come soon. As the first one in a series of limited edition loop tapes on Hljodaklettar. More info soon.

DJ Musician – Euro Trash 2012

June 9, 2012

tags: DJ Musician, Euro 201, Euro 2012, Euro Trash, Europe, eurotrash, Football, Hljodaklettar, music, National Anthems, Poland, soccer, Sport, trash, UEFA, Ukraine

Hljóðaklettar proudly present the Icelandic participation of the EURO 2012, European Football Championship.

DJ Musician - Euro Trash 2012: (Catalog HKDIG#1) A collection of the national anthems, re-imagined by DJ Musician, of the countries participating in the UEFA EURO 2012 – European Football Championship in June. This collection is a Hljóðaklettar digital release.

It’s happy hour in Europe!!

Youtube playlist here and vimeo site here, where the videos can be downloaded.

Homepage of the project here.

This will be available for purchase in better quality at a selected digital stores soon. (not that you´ll need this trash in good quality, but we´ll give you the choice to reward your favourite DJ all his hard work)

This is a creative commons, can be used and distributed as you like.