Smekkleysa SM - Digital Score Month

Björk – Cornucopia Live DVD

Smekkleysa — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 17:42:16 +0000

DVD tracklist

1.   family (intro)

2.   the gate

3.   utopia

4.   arisen my senses

5.   ovule

6.   show me forgiveness

7.   isobel

8.   blissing me

9.   arpeggio

10. body memory

11. hidden place

12. mouth’s cradle

13. victimhood

14. fossora

15. atopos

16. features creatures

17. courtship

18. pagan poetry

19. losss

20. sue me

21. tabula rasa

22. notget

23. future forever

24. fungal city

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Björk – Cornucopia Book

Smekkleysa — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 19:49:07 +0000

BJÖRK’S CORNUCOPIA BOOK RELEASE

I’m proud to announce the release of Cornucopia: The Book. This book documents my five-year tour, Cornucopia, designed by M/M Paris, with images shot by photographer Santiago Felipe.

Before this tour, I spent a decade working with 360-degree sound and visual software in virtual reality and animation, creating Biophilia, the first app album, and later Vulnicura as a VR album. I was deeply inspired by the idea of a fully-immersive experience, spending a spring in an Icelandic lighthouse, spreading Utopia into fully surround speakers. My intention was to bring what we had created for 21st-century VR into a 19th-century theatre—taking it from the headset to the stage.

This vision was realized with 27 moving curtains that captured projections on different textures and LED screens, creating a digitally animated show: a modern lanterna magica for live music. I also wanted to feature bespoke instruments: a magnetic harp, an aluphone, a circular flute, and a reverb chamber, specially built with an audio architect to enhance the most intimate version of a performance—in a personal chapel.

Throughout this tale, there is a subplot woven in: a second story of an avatar—a modern marionette who alchemically mutates, from puppet to puppet, from the injury of a heart wound to a fully healed state.

I hope you enjoy it.

Warmthness,

Björk

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Bára Gísladóttir – Orchestral Works

Smekkleysa — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 13:05:07 +0000

Orchestral Works

Bára Gísladóttir, Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Eva Ollikainen

Bára Gísladóttir (b. 1989) considers sounds, instruments and ensembles as living organisms. In VAPE, Hringla and COR, the Icelandic composer and double bassist engages with the largest musical organism of all: the symphony orchestra. Through these works, we follow Gísladóttir’s fascination with language and coincidence, for example. Here is an uncompromising interrogation of the body, in its excesses and ailments. And here, most of all, is life, vaporous and between states, neither dark nor light; an ‘everlasting Dusk’.

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Björk – 5 years [full score]

einar_orn — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 18:00:29 +0000

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Björk – Pluto [full score]

einar_orn — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 18:00:02 +0000

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Gyða Valtýsdóttir – Prism

einar_orn — Sat, 13 Nov 2021 23:23:40 +0000

This is the full score of Prism which is on Gyða’s forthcoming album Ox on the 3rd of December 2021

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Gyða Valtýsdóttir – Cute Kittens Lick Cream

einar_orn — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 18:43:44 +0000

This is the full score of Cute Kittens Lick Cream which is on Gyða’s forthcoming album Ox on the 3rd of December 2021

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Hróðmar I Sigurbjörnsson – Fjórar þriggjagítarastúdíur

einar_orn — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 18:31:00 +0000

Fjórar þriggjagítarastúdíur voru samdar sumarið 2015 fyrir Íslenska gítartríóið. Í verkinu fléttast ýmsar stúdíur tónsmíðalegs eðlis við þær sem lúta tæknilegum atriðum gítarsins.

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Hróðmar I Sigurbjörnsson – Kuríe

einar_orn — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 18:27:44 +0000

Stúdía fyrir einleiksfiðlu
Study for violin

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Hróðmar I Sigurbjörnsson – Nokkrar misjafnlega almennar hugmyndir um dauðann

einar_orn — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 18:20:50 +0000

Nokkrar misjafnlega almennar hugmyndir um dauðann var samið við samnefnt ljóð Gyrðis Elíassonar úr ljóðabókinni Nokkur almenn orð um kulnun sólar (2009) og Næturljóð í d-moll úr ljóðabókinni Hér vex enginn sítrónuviður (2012).

Verkið er samið fyrir kvartett sem samanstendur af Björk Níelsdóttur, sópransöngkonu, Hafdísi Vigfúsdóttur, flautuleikara, Grími Helgasyni, klarinettuleikara og Svani Vilbergssyni, gítarleikara.

Reykjavík, 7. ágúst 2017.

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