YMUR

Ymur is a 30-minute performative audio/visual performance. During the performance, a live experimental vocal performance transpires, creating an audio sculpture with the visuals as a graphic score. The piece drives from an equal relationship between the visual and the sonic, where the mediums harmoniously make space for each other throughout the piece.

 

Starting as an interdisciplinary research on the natural and the virtual, Ymur is the outcome of a collaboration and a result of working with those as main elements. Icelandic raw nature is the main inspiration, as the visuals explore the power of elements and different forces found there, whilst the electronics disguise themselves as sounds found in nature, creating bird-like sounds, windy occurrences and oceanic waves.

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YMUR is an audio/visual performance premiered at Tut Töt Tuð European Audio and Art Exhibition in Grand Theatre Groningen, Netherlands in 2019. Later, presented at Tankstation in Enschede.

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Created by Ásdís Birna Gylfadóttir and Ragnheiður Erla Björnsdóttir.