Valgeir Sigurðsson

Perhaps most widely known simply because the founder of the bed room Community label, and a long-term collaborator with fellow Icelander Björk, producer and composer Valgeir Sigurðsson’s musical journey began with classical guitar lessons simply because a boy. As his curiosity about music grew, his interest turned to making, and by age 16, Sigurðsson acquired found employment at a little local recording studio room. He continued to secure a Tonmeister level from London’s esteemed SAE institute, and he place his production abilities to function by building Greenhouse Studios in Reykjavik. The studio room served Sigurðsson perfectly as an area to build up his own tips of modern and neo-classical music creation, and, since its founding in 1997, continues to be employed by musical giants such as for example Brian Eno, Feist, the XX, Owen Pallett, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, and, obviously, Björk. It had been with Björk that Sigurðsson increased to prominence, adding to her albums Selmasongs, Vespertine, and Medúlla, aswell as focusing on the soundtrack for Lars von Trier’s musical play Dancer at night. A number of the globe’s best-known ensembles and orchestras possess performed his ratings, which often make use of both digital and acoustic instrumentation, and his musical movie theater piece, Wide Slumber for Lepidopterists, found the Music Movie theater Today award in 2016. His single releases started with 2007’s Ekvílibríum, which highlighted guest performances from Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Ólöf Arnalds, Dawn McCarthy, and drummer Samuli Kosminen from fellow Icelandic music group múm. His soundtrack towards the 2010 environmental documentary Draumalandið, or Dreamland, drew plaudits because of its effective motifs and creativeness, aswell as its exceptional usage of collaborators, all taken from the bed room Community label roster, obviously. His third single release, a rating for Stephen Petronio’s ballet of 2012 entitled Structures of Loss, presented the American composer and Bedroom Community designer Nico Muhly on piano. The recording garnered a higher level of compliment because of its melding of emotive chamber music with microtonal consumer electronics.