Kjartan Ólafsson
Tónlist, vísindi og tækni mætast á íslenskri tölvu- og raftónlistarhátíð
ErkiTíð 2023 verður haldin 26. nóvember í Reykjavík. Á hátíðinni verða flutt og frumflutt á þriðja tug tónverka..
Tónlistarhátíðin ErkiTíð er vettvangur fyrir sköpun og tjáningu í tónlist með nýrri tækni og opnar sýn inn í framtíðina, með sterkri viðspyrnu í verkum frumherja íslenskrar tölvu- og raftónlistar.
ErkiTíð hefur frá upphafi lagt mesta áherslu á íslenska raftónlist og nýsköpun á því sviði. Hún var fyrst haldin árið 1994 af tilefni Lýðveldisafmælis Íslands þar sem fluttar voru allar helstu raf- og tölvutónsmíðar íslenskra tónskálda frá upphafi.
Í gegnum tíðina hafa tugir nýrra íslenskra tónverka verið samin og frumflutt að tilhlutan ErkiTíðar.
Á hátíðinni í ár verður lögð áhersla á rauntima tónsköpun með nýjum aðferðum og nýjum hljóðfærum með aðstoð gervigreindar - þar sem boðið er upp á hið óvænta í rauntíma tónsköpun í lifandi listflutningi.
Tónlistarhátíðin ErkiTíð er opin fyrir alla óháð kyni, aldri eða uppruna. Eitt af aðalmarkmiðunum hefur verið að tengja saman fortíð, nútíð og framtíð. Þá er veigamikill þáttur ErkiTíðar nýsköpun á sviði tónlistar þar sem mörk á milli listgreina er oft máð út og sem skapar fjölbreyttari menningu.
Með fjöbreytileika sínum eflir ErkiTíð menningu og mannlíf Íslands og stuðlar að litríkara menningarlífi hverju sinni.
Kjartan Ólafsson, listrænn stjórnandi
Icelandic computer- and electronic music festival where music, science and technology meet
ErkiTíð 2023 will be held on Sunday 26. November in Reykjavík. At the festival, more tha 30 compositions will be performed and premiered.
The music festival ErkiTíð is a platform for creativity and expression in music with new technology and opens a vision into the future, with a strong resistance in the works of the pioneers of Icelandic computer and electronic music.
From the beginning, ErkiTíð has placed emphasis on Icelandic electronic music and innovation in that field. It was first held in 1994 on the anniversary of Iceland's Republic Day, where all major electronic and computer compositions by Icelandic composers from the beginning were performed.
Over the years, dozens of new Icelandic compositions have been commissioned and premiered on the behalf of ErkiTíð
This year's festival will focus on real-time composition using new methods and new designed instruments with the help of artificial intelligence - where the unexpected is invited i in a real time music creation and live performance.
The music festival ErkiTíð is open to everyone regardless of gender, age or origin. One of the main goals has been to connect the past, present and future.
ErkiTíð presents Icelandic culture and modern time - and contributes to an increased cultural diversIty.
Kjartan Ólafsson, artistic director
ErkiTíð 2023
26. nóvember
13.00 - 14.00
13.00-14.00
Listasafn Reykjavíkur - fjölnota salur
Fjölviðir tónleikar
Verð/Price: 2500 kr - for all concerts at ErkiTíð 2023
Tickets available by the entrance
Free entrance for students and senior citizens //
Hjólastólaaðgengi / Wheelchair access
Fjölvíðir tónleikar með nýjum og nýlegum verkum
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Jesper Pedersen - L73
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spuni fyrir Buchla Easel og fartölvu
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Tomas Manoury - "surrounded..."
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"surrounded..." er rauntímahljóðvinnnsla
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Ríkharður H. Friðriksson
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Brons (2004-2008)
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Mikael Lind og Björn Halldórsson:
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Máttvana, ljóðhönnun fyrir rödd og rafeffekta
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ErkiTíð 2023
26.nóvember
14.00 - 15.00
14:00 - 15:00
Listasafn Reykjavíkur - fjölnota salur
Verð/Price: 2500 kr - for all concerts at ErkiTíð 2023
Tickets available by the entrance
Free entrance for students and senior citizens //
Intelligent instruments - Þórhallur Magnússon – LHI
Tónleikar með nýjum rafverkum - gervigreindartónlist fyrir nýhönnuð hljóðfæri
Concerts with new electronic works - AI music for newly designed instruments
Programme:
:: The Intelligent Instruments Lab ::
In this session, the Intelligent Instruments Lab will present music made with instruments that we are developing in our lab. New haptic interfaces, neural audio synthesis, feedback instruments, interactive machine learning, artificial life, live coding and more will be amongst the techniques used to create new experimental music.
:: Adam Pultz::
Title: Slippages Slithering Yonder
Deconstructing an imaginary song by Paul Simon by means of string oscillations and waveset synthesis.
Adam Pultz: FAAB (feedback-actuated augmented bass)
Adam Pultz is a musician, composer, researcher, tea-drinker, and improving swimmer with 4 solo albums to their name, in addition to 40+ releases, tours in lots of places, and a PhD in feedback. Adam is currently a postdoc at Intelligen Instruments Lab.
:: Miguel Crozzoli ::
Title: Casa Tomada
This performance explores the enigmatic interplay between Miguel Crozzoli's improvisation and an AI model trained with the sounds of Mark Hanslip —two saxophonists who've only met through this surreal but magical digital sphere. Inspired by Cortázar's Casa Tomada, the sound of the 'other' gradually builds a liminal space, unvealing a resonating dimension through the intuitive exploration of the unknown.
Miguel Crozzoli is a south-Argentinian performer, composer, and researcher based in Reykjavik, working at the intersection of data, science, music, and new technologies. Miguel's music is highly charged of political perspective, blending his argentinian traditions with European composition and Jazz studies.
:: Nicola Privato ::
Title: Mouja
Mouija, or the Magnetic Ouija, is a performance focusing on odd physical and temporal causalities. At the core of the piece are Thales and Stacco, two instruments based on magnets developed at IIL. Mouja is a free wander within the sonic boundaries of this unusual system, and a playful game of AI reconfigurations, where the presence-absence of the dataset‘s sonic spectres is materialised through the unpredictable interactions of the instruments‘ magnetic forces.
Nicola Privato is an Italian artist and researcher based in Reykjavik, Iceland, with a background in jazz improvisation, electronic music and linguistics. In his practice Nicola likes to combine participatory art and improvisation, with a focus on interactive technologies and AI.
:: ..and the soloist ...halldorophone....::
Júlía Mogensen is a classically trained cellist, deeply drawn to the unknown spaces of the ‘in-between’ where the potential between self and other becomes an exciting exploration of transformation. Her recent exploration involves the halldorophone, an electro-acoustic feedback instrument created by Halldór Úlfarsson. The instruments’ unpredictable nature invites deeper listening and intuitive responding where discovery unfolds with each erratic step.
Júlía is an active performer of new experimental music, as a performer/collaborator/improviser she has worked with a diverse range of artists and orchestras on stage and in recordings in Iceland and abroad.
:: Victor Shepardson ::
Title: Improvisation for Guitar and Living Loops
A living looper squirms like a box of worms. Loops digest plucks and chirps, strings sizzle and ring into chattering things, castings pile into terrain and erode into mud. Each sound is identified to a process and each process is carried forward into a sound. The Living Looper is a new instrument which asks, what would a live looping pedal for the machine learning era be like?
Victor Shepardson is a musician and researcher in the Intelligent Instruments Lab at the Iceland University of Arts. His interests include machine learning, artificial intelligence, electronic and audiovisual music, and improvisation. In his current research, he approaches the lived experience of people with AI via design and performance of new musical instruments.
:: Jack Armitage ::
Title: Trommuvera
Trommuvera ("drum being") is part of Jack Armitage's series of Tölvera ("number being"), where artificial life and self-organising systems are entangled with musical instruments, as a means to viscerally explore alternative and unconventional intelligences. Trommuvera is a premiere of a piece combining the KeyTam drum by French luthier Guillaume Toutain, Interactive Neural Resonators by Rodrigo Diaz, and Jack's Tölvera software library. In the piece, a feedback loop is created, where the sound of the drum being played by a percussionist is used to control high-level artificial life parameters, which in turn dynamically alter the morphology of the neural resonators, which are then amplified through the drum. These systematic couplings are realised through interactive machine learning mappings, which themselves evolve over the course of the piece. As a result, the percussionist, drum and softwares become a single intra-face, listening and adapting to itself continually.
Jack Armitage is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Intelligent Instruments Lab, with a doctorate in Media and Arts Technologies from Queen Mary University of London, where I studied in Prof. Andrew McPherson's Augmented Instruments Lab. I produce, perform and live code music as Lil Data, as part of the PC Music record label. Previously I was a Research Engineer at ROLI, after graduating with a BSc in Music, Multimedia & Electronics from the University of Leeds.
ErkiTíð 2023
26. nóvember
15.00 - 16.00
15:00 - 16.00
Listasafn Reykjavíkur
Reykjavík Art Museum
Verð/Price: 2500 kr - for all concerts at ErkiTíð 2023
Tickets available by the entrance
Free entrance for students and senior citizens //
Hjólastólaaðgengi / Wheelchair access
Lemur quartet and CAPUT ensemble
Soloists: Bjørnar Habbestad flute, Hild Sofie Tafjord horn, Lene Grenager cello, Michael Francis Duch double bass
Conductor: Guðni Franzson
Critical Bands IIa for solo quartet and sinfonietta 30 min
Lene Grenager: Off Soundings for flute and sinfonietta 14 min
Soloist: Bjørnar Habbestad
Soundings is measurements obtained by sounding i.e. using an echo sounder to ascertain distances by measuring the time taken for waves of sound to be echoed back. To be off soundings means to be so far to sea with so far down to the seabed that the sound cannot be reflected (or rather it can be reflected but the signal is too soft to be registered by the echo sounder when it comes back).
In my flute concerto Off soundings this fenomenon is treated both concretely and associatively: From the beginning of the piece the sound of the flute and the ensemble is very soft and almost inaudible. In other sections the ensemble echo sounds used by the flute accumulating into a complex, intertwined sound structure.
The idea of the flute part was to use air sounds, multiphonics and other extended techniques in a virtuose manner with lots of energy in very soft passages leading up to more explosive and extrovert sections. The flute part was written first and the ensemble parts are commenting and developing the material.
Lemur's album Critical Bands, released in 2023 on Aurora records, is the culmination of the ensembles decade-long exploration of both physical, abstract and ephemeral sonic spaces. Recorded by more than fifty musicians in different sites and configurations across several countries, the album reveals the layered and complex materials of a modular, site-specific composition practice where acoustic science is used to inform musical construction. Caput played a central role in this project through concerts and recording over several years. In Critical Bands IIa for Lemur and sinfonietta we let traces of the recording blend together with live sound so that the projects spatial exploration takes on yet another form.
ErkiTíð 2023
26. nóvember
16.00 - 17.30
16:00 - 17.30
Listasafn Reykjavíkur
Reykjavík Art Museum
Verð/Price: 2500 kr - for all concerts at ErkiTíð 2023
Tickets available by the entrance
Free entrance for students and senior citizens //
Frumflutningar - Premieres
Lifandi flutningur með tækni, tilviljunum og töfrum
Live performance with technology, chance and magic
Tinna Þorsteinsdóttir píanó, kammerhópurinn CAPUT o fl. flytja
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Kjartan Ólafsson “Píanó konsert”
Tinna Þorsteinsdóttir og CAPUT frumflytja nýjan stuttan píanókonsert sem saminn er í rauntima með aðstoð gervigreindar (CalmusComposer)
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Sk-Ar -
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Hjól og gírar - (Skúli Arason)
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Haraldur Karlsson
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Brain
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Þorsteinn Eyfjörð
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Zissurp Motet for Cobalt Blue
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ErkiTíð 2023 er haldin í samvinnu við Listasafn Reykjavíkur, ITM - Íslenska tónverkamiðstöð og CAPUT,
ErkiTíð 2022 er styrkt af Tónlistarsjóði menningar- og viðkiptaráðuneytisins .
ErkiTíð 2023 is held in collaboration with Reykjavík Art Museum, ITM - Icelandic Music Information Center and CAPUT. ErkiTíð 2023 is sponsored by the Music Foundation of the Ministry of Culture and Business Affairs.