Nordic Affect - Clockworking

Clockworking represents collaboration, connection, and passionately fierce creativity. • Written by María Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir, well-known for her work with Icelandic band amiina, the album’s title track – for violin, viola, cello and electronics – can be seen as an encounter of the human and the machine. • She also composed “Sleeping Pendulum,” the last track, which received honorary recommendations at the 2012 rostrum for composers. • The second composer on the album, Hildur Gudnadóttir, views her work “2 circles” as a part of an ongoing observation of the relationship between a musician and his instrument, where one person becomes two sound sources. • Hafdís Bjarnadóttir’s “From Beacon to Beacon” is designed as a conversation between two lighthouses; the instrumental parts are based on her transformation of a weather forecast for the Garðskagaviti lighthouse into music. • “Shades of Silence,” by widely acclaimed composer Anna Thorvaldsdóttir, explores the “inwards and outwards escape to the subtle nuances of silence,” as put by Anna herself. • Hailed for its “affectionate explorations” (BBC Music Magazine) and “commitment to their repertoire” (Classical Music), Nordic Affect was formed in 2005 by a group of four period-instrument musicians united in their passion for viewing familiar musical forms from a different perspective, and for daring to venture into new musical terrain.

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