Hildur Gudnadottir - Mount A
Touch # Tone 41
CD, 11 tracks
Photography & Design: Jon Wozencroft
Remastered by Denis Blackham
1. Light 2. Floods 3. Casting 4. Shadowed 5. Self 6. Growth 7. In Gray
8. My 9. Reflection 10. Earbraces 11. You
Hildur Gudnadottir - Without Sinking
Touch # TO:70
CD - 10 tracks
Touch # TO:70LP
2xLP - 13 tracks
Track Listing: 1. Elevation 2. Overcast 3. Erupting Light 4. Circular 5. Ascent 6. Opaque
7. Aether 8. Whiten 9. Into Warmer Air 10. Unveiled
Composed and recorded by Hildur Ingveldardóttir Guðnadóttir in Berlin and Reykjavík. Hildur played cello, zither, processors and voice.
Additional recordings by Skúli Sverrisson; bass and processors on all tracks except track 7, Jóhann Jóhannsson; organs and processors on tracks 2, 3 and 9 and Guðni Franzson; clarinet and bass clarinet on tracks 7 and 10.
Cello no. 49 was made by David Wiebe in 1991.
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Hildur Gudnadottir - Iridescence
Touch # TO:70DS
1 Track digital download
Track Listing: 1. Iridescence
Download-only. Featuring Jóhann Jóhannsson & Skúli Sverrisson, this release follows on from her solo album, Without Sinking [Touch # TO:70, 2009].
Mixed and mastered by BJNilsen, Berlin, February 2009.
Image by Jon Wozencroft.
Available from all good online stores.
Lost In Hildurness - Mount A
12 Tónar # 12t030
CD - 11 tracks
Track Listing: 1. light 2. floods 3. casting 4. shadowed 5. self 6. growth 7. in gray 8. my 9. reflection 10. earbraces 11. you
Collaborations
Hauschka & Hildur Guðnadóttir, Pan Tone (Sonic Pieces) 2011
Wildbirds and Peacedrums, Retina, (LeafLabel) 2010
Stórsveit Nix Noltes, Royal Family - Divorce (LP Útgáfa) 2008/ (Fat Cat) 2009
Angel, Kalmukia (Editions Mego) 2008
H.I.G., BJ Nilsen and Stilluppsteypa, Second Childhood (Quecksilber) 2007
Angel + Hildur Gudnadóttir, In Transmediale (Oral) 2006
Stórsveit Nix Noltes, Orkídeur Hawai (12 tónar/Bubblecore) 2005
Mr. Schmucks Farm, Good Sound (Oral) 2005
Rúnk, Ghengi Dahls (Flottur kúltúr og gott músik) 2001
Installations, performances & scored music
"Nacre" - Church organ & Light Organ (2009)
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Compostion for Halldorophone #5 (2009)
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"Music for Airports 2/2" - by Brian Eno arranged for a brass sextet (2008)
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"Runway" - for a 10 piece wind ensemble and light conducting system (Caput ensemble, 2008)
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"Elegant Violence" - With Mia Makela and Kate Pendry (2008)
"Til heidurs Atla" - remix of Grand Duo Concertante by Atli Heimir Sveinsson (2008)
"Brotin milli hleina" - sound/radio installation with BJNilsen (2007)
"In the Shadow of the Sun" - co-writing a choir score to the Derek Jarman film, with Throbbing Gristle (2007)
"Komdu heim" a piece for church chimes written for the York Minister bells (2007)
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Music for the video installation "Death.200AD" by Rebecca Erin Moran (2006)
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"Calling all. This is our last cry before our eternal silence." Chamber orchestra piece. (Ísafold Chamber Orchestra, 2005)
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"Merry Go Round" a soundclock performance for 14 musicians on platforms on wheels, (2005)
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"Órói" sound installation (2004)
"McCello" a piece for solo cello on a platform on wheels and electronics (2002)
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Music for Theatre
"Skyfall" (The Icelandic Academy of the Arts) 2002
"Herra madur" (Vesturport) 2003
"Sumardagur" (The National Theater of Iceland) 2006
"King Lear" (The National Theater of Iceland) 2010
Music for Film
"Der Besuch" by Vicky Cohn, 2004
"Jón Bóndi" by Una Lorenzen, 2004
"Another" by Helena Jónsdóttir, 2005
"The Gift" by Markus Wambsganss, 2006
"The Bleeding" by Philip Gelatt, 2011
Music for Dance
"A Circle" with Halla Ólafsdóttir (Nordic Music Days) 2006
"Náttblinda" by Gunnlaugur Egilsson. (The Royal Swedish Ballet) 2007
"Ambra" by Ina Christel Johannessen (Icelandic Dance Company and Carte Blanche) 2008
Guest appearances
Angel, 26000, (Editions Mego) 2011
Skúli Sverrisson, Sería II, (12 tónar) 2010
The Knife w. Mt. Sims and Planningtorock, Tomorrow In a Year, (Rabid Records) 2010
Valgeir Sigurdsson, Draumalandid, (Bedroom Community) 2010
BJNilsen, The Invisible City, (Touch) 2010
múm, Sing Along To Songs You Don´t Know (Morr Music + ..) 2009
Strings of Consciousness & Angel (Important Records) 2009
Jóhann Jóhannsson, Fordlandia - Japanese edtion (Warner Music Japan) 2008
Jamie Lidell, Jim (Warp Records) 2008
BJNilsen, The Short Night (Touch) 2007
múm, Go Go Smear The Poison Ivy (Fat Cat) 2007
Pan Sonic, Katodivaihe / Cathodephase (Blast First Petite) 2007
Valgeir Sigurdsson, Equilibrium Is Restored (Bedroom Community) 2007
Nico Muhly, Speaks Volumes (Bedroom Community) 2006
Ben Frost, Theory of Machines (Bedroom Community) 2006
Skúli Sverrisson, Sería (12 Tónar) 2006
SchneiderTM, Skoda Mluvit (City Slang) 2006
"Tu Non Mi Perderai Mai” H.I.G. w. Jóhann Jóhannsson, Touch 25 (Touch) 2006
múm, Yesterday Was Dramatic - Today is OK (TMT Entertainment) 2001
múm, Náttúruóperan (Leikfélag MH) 1999