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So a lot of the performers have clas-
sical music backgrounds, but will
the festival have anything classical
about it?
Guðný: Not at all!
It's classically trained musicians
who go experimental?
Fjóla: We even have classical composers
coming from pop.
Guðný: Like Páll Ragnar Pálsson who's
composing for the Ólafur Eliasson piece,
he has a doctorate in composition, but
started his musical career being a rock
star in Maus.
Will any events look like traditional
events?
Guðný and Fjóla: Not at all.
Guðný: I guess we're trying to open up
and make people experience something
different that opens up the possibility of
further discussions. Maybe more people
will do things in this experimental way.
Are we calling this a new discipline?
Fjóla: That's what we're exploring: is it a
new discipline?
Guðný: I want to call it a new discipline
with many aspects, but it's one whole.
The way you talk about it is very
holistic, like it's one thing.
Fjóla: That's how the projects are cre-
ated. For example Þráinn Hjálmarsson,
a visual artist, and Sigurður Guðjónsson,
a composer, connected on their own.
There's a natural instinct to work togeth-
er, to create one piece together.
Guðný: It's more interesting when the
creative process starts together. It's not
like, "Hey I have an idea. I need a musi-
cian."
How did the artists get involved
with the festival?
Guðný: We picked and commissioned
them. Some projects are performances
that have already happened, but we're re-
cycling them in new ways.
How would you explain Cycle to a
friend in a few sentences?
Guðný: Cycle exhibits intersections of
music and art in as many ways as possible.
No, that's too big. It's this experiment to
try to involve the audience in this inter-
disciplinary experiment.
Fjóla: I see it as innovation and entrepre-
neurship, creating something new.
Guðný: And we're three women doing
this, that's important to say.
Is it going to happen next year?
Fjóla: We have funding for these two
years.
Guðný: … and hopefully we'll get on to a
bigger milk cow after that.
And beyond that?
Guðný: Everything has its time and place.
This is what we're focused on now.
Fjóla: As long as its lifetime allows.
Cycle Sampler
The festival is jam-packed with work-
shops, exhibits and performances.
"New Release," an exhibit of the (non-
performance) works in the festival,
will remain on view at Kópavogur's
Gerðarsafn through September 27.
Here's a small sampling of the festival’s
performance events. Check out www.
cycle.is for the full programme.
Electrical Walks
German artist Christina Kubisch in-
vites you to put on a set of headphones,
specially wired to pick up the electro-
magnetic waves around you. Follow a
map, on your own (or guided by the
artist) hearing the hidden music of ev-
eryday life.
Gerðarsafn
August 13, 18:00: Guided walk with
the artist
August 14 - 16, 11:00 - 18:00 indepen-
dent walks
Free!
Spiegeltunnel
(Mirror Tunnel)
Composer Páll Ragnar Pálsson per-
forms works in conversation with
Ólafur Eliasson's mirror installation
while members of the Skark Ensemble
invite the audience to interact with the
sculpture.
Gerðarsafn
August 13, 20:00
2,000 ISK
Surrounded
By Strangers
A collaboration between Danish com-
poser Eyvind Gulbrandsen, the South
Iceland Chamber Choir, and instru-
ment-maker Páll from Húsafell.
Gerðarsafn
August 15, 20:00
2,000 ISK
ArtKino
A variety of video art projects, includ-
ing "Loud and Clear Too," a bizarre
collaboration between video artists,
musicians, and (yes) advertising agen-
cies.
Salurinn Music Hall
August 16, 14:00 - 18:00
Free!