Hildur Ingveldardóttir Guðnadóttir born in 1982 is a cellist and composer. Best known for her collaborations with múm and guest appearances with Pan Sonic, she has a rich catalogue of collaborations and varied projects behind her. Guðnadóttir began playing cello as a child, entered the Reykjavík Music Academy and then moved on to musical studies/composition [...]

caviarsonoro : Jóhann Jóhannsson -  Happy New Ears festival with  Hildur Guðnadóttir and Baby Dee (  Hildur Guðnadóttir   is from another planet)

Touch is a visionary UK record label that was established by Mike Harding and Jon Wozencroft back in 1982. Touch is not just a record label in a common sense, it's more an audio-visual entity and a multimedia publishing company. In it's three decades history they have released bona fide artists and composers like Oren Ambarchi , Christian Fennesz , Soliman Gamil , Hildur Guðnadóttir , Phill Niblock , BJNilsen , Chris Watson and Jóhann Jóhannsson on their roster. Read More

Hildur Guðnadóttir & Jóhann Jóhannsson Rehearsal @ the Jacobijner Church @ Leeuwarden, during the "Explore the North" Multidisciplinary Cultural Festival, held on 25-26. November 2011

Brunnenpassage, Vienna 28th - 30th October Curated by Mia Zabelka & Mike Harding Live performances: Hildur Guðnadóttir Philip Jeck Jana Winderen Ensemble: One night band conducted by Mike Harding and Mia Zabelka featuring Hildur Guðnadóttir, Jana Winderen, Zahra Mani, Philip...

A Winged Victory for the Sullen A Winged Victory for the Sullen [Kranky; 2011] by Nathan Shaffer Rating: A Winged Victory for the Sullen was born from a chance encounter between Adam Wiltzie (Stars of the Lid, etc.) and Dustin O’Halloran (Dévics). They were introduced, in 2007, by their mutual friend, Francesco Donadello, during what would become Sparklehorse’s final European tour. Backstage, they developed an instant rapport and subsequently, across the Continent (Belgium, Germany, Italy), formed a collaborative friendship. In the meantime, both artists continued working on other projects: alone, 2011 has delivered both O’Halloran’s Lumière ...

Sonic Pieces will be releasing a new album from Icelandic cellist Hildur Guðnadóttir on September 23 entitled "Pan tone", a collaboration with German pianist Hauschka "based on the idea of the ocean, and took a book of Pantones to extract exact references to the specific colors of the sea." Read a review: http://www.themilkfactory.co.uk/st/2011/09/hauschka-hildur-gudnadottir-pan-tone-sonic-pieces/

Touch presents… as part of The Domino Festival: Mika Vainio Hildur Guðnadóttir Thomas Ankersmit In 2012 wordt het Engelse Touch 30 (!) jaar. Touch werd opgericht in ’82 en omschrijft zichzelf als een ‘audiovisuele operatie’. Een combinatie van klank en...

RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta’s Cian Ó Ciobhain releases An Taobh Tuathail Vol IV, the latest in the series as a free download from today. Featuring tracks from Alex Smoke, Actress, Lali Puna, Daedelus, Tape, Patrick Kelleher and Hildur Guðnadóttir amongst others, It is available now as a podcast for a duration of three months, from [...]

Valgeir Sigurðsson is an Icelandic producer who has worked with such Doklands favourites as Ben Frost and Hildur Guðnadóttir. Here's one of his solo recordings, taken from his 2007 album Ekvílibríum . Listening to Baby Architect , you might wonder how Valgeir gets that broken, dreamy sound out of so few instruments. Listen to the end of the track, and he lets you in on the secret. The whole song is underpinned by a low speaker hum, the sound of a jack half in its socket. I love the way he's turned such a prosaic and annoying sound into something ...

50. Color Of Clouds Satellite of Love "Wonder" 49. Olivia Pedroli The Den "A Path" 48. Lali Puna Our Inventions "Remember ?" 47. Small Black New Chain "Camouflage" 46. Sambassadeur European "Albatross" 45. Pepper Rabbit Beauregard "Older Brother" 44. Rökkurró Í Annan Heim "Sjónarspil" 43. Gregory & The Hawk Leche "Puller Return" 42. Lost In The Trees All Alone in an Empty House "Fireplace" 41. Allo, Darlin' Allo, Darlin' "Dreaming" 40. Maximilian Hecker I am Nothing but Emotion, No Human Being, No Son, Never Again Son "Holy Dungeon" 39. Ólafur Arnalds ... And They Have Escaped the Weight of Darkness "Tunglið" 38. A ...

Mount A is the second solo album by cellist and Mum, Pan Sonic and Collective">Animal Collective collaborator Hildur Guðnadóttir after 2008’s Without Sinking, but was originally issued by Tonar in 2006 under the name ‘Lost in Hildurness’. Given that it was heralded ‘the perfect soundtrack to get lost in a forest at night’, that title [...] Hildur Guðnadóttir – Mount A (Touch) is a post from: Cyclic Defrost Magazine .

Amiina Sonic Puzzles Originally a string quartet formed by four girls at the Reykjavík College of Music in the 1990s, amiina went on to cut its teeth as Sigur Rós ' string section for the next decade. Their debut album, " Kurr " (2007), was performed on a disparate jumble of instruments - musical saws, kalimbas, music boxes and seemingly anything that could be plucked, bowed or beaten on - resulting in a work that ebbed and flowed "in a strange, powerful place between sophistication and innocence", according to The Guardian . Now a sextet after a recent masculine infusion, amiina are to release a second ...

A gloomy medieval smack: Tantric hammer blows of time.