https://nordicaffect.com Nordic Affect Fri, 16 Oct 2020 16:55:58 +0000 https://nordicaffect.com en https://nordicaffect.com/Projects Tue, 13 Oct 2020 15:22:03 +0000 Nordic Affect https://nordicaffect.com/Projects Projects https://nordicaffect.com/Main Tue, 13 Oct 2020 15:22:03 +0000 Nordic Affect https://nordicaffect.com/Main ︎︎&nbsp;︎ “Nordic Affect merits praise for advancing the chamber recording concept in such imaginative manner.” —Textura “This was music-making of staggering brilliance and imagination”–5 against 4 https://nordicaffect.com/About-NoA Tue, 13 Oct 2020 15:22:04 +0000 Nordic Affect https://nordicaffect.com/About-NoA Nordic Affect Icelandic ensemble Nordic Affect has been hailed as ‘multi-disciplinary force of nature’ (A Closer Listen), as gem in Iceland’s music life (Fréttablaðið) and for ‘ineffable synergy between the performers’ (San Francisco Classical Voice). In 2013 the ensemble was nominated for the Nordic Council Music Prize and was named Performer of the Year at the Iceland Music Awards in 2014. Founded in 2005, Nordic was formed by a group of period instrument musicians who were united in their passion for viewing familiar musical forms from a different perspective and for daring to venture into new musical terrain. Its members have individually performed and recorded with artists and groups such as Concerto Copenhagen, The Six Tones, Anima Eterna Brugge and Björk.&nbsp; Believing that music knows no boundaries, Nordic Affect has brought its music-making to contemporary and rock audiences alike and performed to critical acclaim at festivals such as TRANSIT Festival (BE), Dark Music Days (IS), November Music (NL), Skaņu Mežs (LV), Iceland Airwaves (IS), Ensems Festival (SP), North Atlantic Flux (UK) and Estonian Music Days (EE). In the U.S., Nordic Affect was featured in 2017 at Los Angeles Philharmonic's Reykjavik Festival, and has also performed at National Sawdust in New York, Constellation in Chicago, and at the UC Berkeley Art Museum. The commissioning and performance of new works is integral to Nordic Affect’s mission as it has, from the group’s inception, combined new compositions with the music of the 17th and 18th centuries. Believing that exciting things happen ‘in the connection’, Nordic Affect has through the years established exciting collaborative relationships with composers, visual artists and producers. In addition, the group's concert series in Reykjavík has been a platform for educational programming and presented many first performances in the country, be it of music by Telemann or 21st century composers. Their mission to spotlight women’s role in music history has led to projects such as HÚN/SHE which was broadcast by the European Broadcasting Service and the albums Clockworking and He(a)r. Starting with its debut album in 2007, Nordic Affect’s recording projects have spanned newly discovered early music to first releases of music written for the ensemble. Nordic Affect's performances can be found on the Bad Taste Records, Musmap, Brilliant Classics, Carrier Records Sono Luminus&nbsp;and now&nbsp;Øra Fonogram labels. In 2015, Nordic Affect's album Clockworking was released by Sono Luminus. Clockworking received various accolades and was featured as Album of the Week on New York Public Radio and KING FM’s Second Inversion. The title track was chosen for NPR's Songs We Love and featured in various best-of-the-year lists, including The Chicago Reader and The New Yorker. In 2017, Nordic Affect released Raindamage, an album resulting from a collaboration between the group and producer Valgeir Sigurðsson. The album was nominated for the Iceland Music Award and Kraumur Prize and was featured in various best-of-the-year lists including The Chicago Reader, 5:4 and AnEarful. &nbsp;In 2018 Nordic Affect released the album He(a)r on the Sono Luminus label with works by Icelandic and Estonian composers. The album was nominated for the Iceland Music Award and Kraumur Prize and made various best-of-the-year-lists, including the Boston Globe, I Care if You Listen, Yahoo Entertainment and Second Inversion. In 2023 they released the album Rökkur with Norwegian composer-performer Maja S. K. Ratkje. The album received various accolades in the international music press and made Dagens Nyheter’s best-of-the-year-list. Furthermore, they received a nomination as Performers-of-the-Year and Contemporary-Album-of-the-Year at the Norwegian Grammy (Spellemann Prisen). The artistic director of Nordic Affect since its founding has been Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir. Nordic Affect is supported by Reykjavík City and The Icelandic Music Fund.&nbsp; https://nordicaffect.com/Events Fri, 16 Oct 2020 16:55:58 +0000 Nordic Affect https://nordicaffect.com/Events Events March 18 19:00 Svensk Musikvår, Aliasteatern, Stockholm, Sweden Concert at the Svensk Musikvår festival. Works by Ida Lundén, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir and Kent Olofsson. For further info click here.&nbsp;&nbsp; April 21 12:30 and 13:30 Children’s Culture Festival, Reykjavík, Iceland “Langspilstilraunir” aka a concert with the students of Borgaskóli school in Reykjavík. The project is the culmination of workshops with drone zither player Eyjólfur Eyjólfsson. More information to follow.&nbsp; May 7 20:00 Mengi, Reykjavík, Iceland Join us for an intimate listening experience, featuring a selection of early baroque music. Special guest: Ian Wilson on recorders.&nbsp; https://nordicaffect.com/Shades-of-Silence Tue, 13 Oct 2020 15:22:04 +0000 Nordic Affect https://nordicaffect.com/Shades-of-Silence https://nordicaffect.com/Members Wed, 14 Oct 2020 20:46:41 +0000 Nordic Affect https://nordicaffect.com/Members Members <img width="1421" height="2072" width_o="1421" height_o="2072" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3260067b5f11ec0694e095c22e98f352cb97c9fed289ad1b1ceb8b72826be4f9/nordicaffect-14.jpg" data-mid="126045825" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3260067b5f11ec0694e095c22e98f352cb97c9fed289ad1b1ceb8b72826be4f9/nordicaffect-14.jpg" /> Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir Violin Marie Stockmarr Becker Viola <img width="1414" height="2072" width_o="1414" height_o="2072" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fb1062af4dbbb28d3ae1852fffd83a07a156e007c11554a9ee3397e3cd06702f/nordicaffect-13.jpg" data-mid="126045589" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fb1062af4dbbb28d3ae1852fffd83a07a156e007c11554a9ee3397e3cd06702f/nordicaffect-13.jpg" /> <img width="1406" height="2072" width_o="1406" height_o="2072" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5a7a64cb7787904917d64fed6fda3e0688204262aede9a0eefa31878088c5509/nordicaffect-11.jpg" data-mid="126046139" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5a7a64cb7787904917d64fed6fda3e0688204262aede9a0eefa31878088c5509/nordicaffect-11.jpg" /> Hanna Loftsdóttir Cello and Gamba Guðrún Óskarsdóttir Harpsichord <img width="1389" height="2072" width_o="1389" height_o="2072" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fd3069f2494ba8ef6fabec2aa42903efe318d3ec9bde0c92c3dad1fe37eb90ba/nordicaffect-12.jpg" data-mid="126045879" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fd3069f2494ba8ef6fabec2aa42903efe318d3ec9bde0c92c3dad1fe37eb90ba/nordicaffect-12.jpg" /> https://nordicaffect.com/Listen Wed, 14 Oct 2020 15:53:44 +0000 Nordic Affect https://nordicaffect.com/Listen Listen https://nordicaffect.com/All-Projects-Header Tue, 13 Oct 2020 15:22:04 +0000 Nordic Affect https://nordicaffect.com/All-Projects-Header Projects https://nordicaffect.com/Rokkur Tue, 13 Oct 2020 15:22:04 +0000 Nordic Affect https://nordicaffect.com/Rokkur RÖKKUR A collaboration between Nordic Affect and one of the world’s leading vocalists and composers, Maja Ratkje. ‘Rökkur’, the Icelandic word for twilight, originates in a workshop between Ratkje and the group and draws on the shades of various noise and timbre, where Maja blends her own extended vocals with the sound of the acoustic baroque timbers of Nordic Affect, everything treated and blended in real-time by the cyborgic electronic extensions of Ratkjes live-instrument. Rökkur was premiered at Dark Music Days in Reykjavik February 1st 2019 in Gamla Bíó. <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2ee3588be7b16a974b8317dff4fb4729465ccba013d070b481c44e0da6138eac/IMG_3454.jpg" data-mid="85572292" border="0" data-scale="99" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2ee3588be7b16a974b8317dff4fb4729465ccba013d070b481c44e0da6138eac/IMG_3454.jpg" /> Review extract from 5:4, This was music-making of staggering brilliance and imagination, made all the more emotionally vivid and authentic due to the performers evidently being quite relaxed and the music having a slightly rough around the edges quality. At the end, i didn’t want to leave the Gamla Bíó, i wanted to stay and bask in its afterglow, savouring the dying embers and echoes of the magic that had been made. https://nordicaffect.com/H-E-A-R-live Wed, 14 Oct 2020 15:12:05 +0000 Nordic Affect https://nordicaffect.com/H-E-A-R-live H E (A) R A concept originally created for Nordic Music Days 2016 edition, which draws on some of the diverse and exciting commissions by Nordic Affect in recent years. The program can be interspersed with the quadrohponic soundscape H e (a) r by Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir and tailored to each event arrangers and festival‘s audience and technical possibilites. <img width="2560" height="1600" width_o="2560" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7886e53a85948e221f66468b276b8cdf107deb52200af0ee42e10adbefec1d1d/Screen-Shot-2019-11-13-at-11.47.00.png" data-mid="85576255" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7886e53a85948e221f66468b276b8cdf107deb52200af0ee42e10adbefec1d1d/Screen-Shot-2019-11-13-at-11.47.00.png" /> Performers: 4