Reykjavík Grapevine - jan. 2020, Blaðsíða 17

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SHOUT OUT:
HÁTI!NI
Words: Hannah Jane Cohen
In 2017, Post-dreifing member
Snæbjörn Helgi Arnason Jack
wanted to have a party, but his tiny,
fruit fly-filled basement apart-
ment proved to not be the most
auspicious venue. Solution? Rent
a community centre in the coun-
tryside, grab some friends, invite a
few bands, and have fun.
“It ended up that only the bands
showed up with a few people,”
Snæbjörn reminisces, laughing.
Nevertheless, it was at the fate-
ful January soirée where the seeds
were planted that would eventually
flourish into the Háti!ni festival.
In July 2019, the second iteration of
the festival hosted a crowd of 300
in Bor!eyri, cementing the Post-
dreifing crew as party role models.
TEAM D.I.T.
The beauty of Háti!ni—and the
reason it garnered a Grapevine Music
Awards Shout Out—comes from
the modus operandi of the festi-
val and of the Post-dreifing collec-
tive itself: Do It Together (D.I.T.).
“The way we view this festi-
val is the same way we view every
show, which is that the people are
not just a passive audience but are
active participants in the event,”
explains fellow Post-dreifing-er
Bjarni Daníel. “Everyone takes part.
Random guests were doing the
rounds in the campsites picking
up trash or helping in the kitchen.
Even though the music is great and
the creative aspect is super impor-
tant to all of us, the most impor-
tant part is the community we’ve
created collectively. That is what
people will remember.”
COFFEE?
The other pinnacles of Háti!ni are
safeness and inclusivity. It’s an
all-ages festival for those of all-
incomes. While the ticket price
was approximately 3,000 ISK, no
one was turned away for being
unable to pay. In fact, many chose
to give more. Others resorted to,
well, more creative means.
“A group of teenagers showed
up from a nearby town. They only
had coffee and were like, ‘We heard
you needed coffee and we were
wondering if we could use this
to get into the festival,’” another
member of the collective, Örlygur
Steinar Arnalds, adds, laughing.
“So then we had some coffee. It
was a nice moment.”
“I’m getting goosebumps!”
Snæbjörn says, thinking back to
the many wholesome moments of
the festival. He emphasises that
while Post-dreifing did make some
mistakes this iteration, they’re still
learning, and hope that Háti!ni
2020 will be even better. “We
want to be party role-models,” he
concludes, though from where we’re
sitting it seems they already are.
SHOUT OUT:
HALLDÓR
ELDJÁRN
Words: Inês Pereira
When two seemingly opposite
interests combine, the result is
something out of this world. This
year, programmer and musician
Halldór Eldjárn—together with
the help of his trusted computer
and NASA’s infinite media
library—gave us ‘Poco Apollo.’ To
make the experimental album,
the artist created a programming
system that transformed pictures
of the moon into musical notes,
tones, and chords. The end result
is Halldór’s interpretation of the
sound of the moon.
MACHINE
FEELINGS
“The system analyzes each image
and looks for hardpoints in the
picture,” Halldór explains. “So if
there are certain changes in texture
or colour, then the algorithm will
set a point there.” The goal is then,
as he emphasises, to “get the feel-
ings out of the machine.”
“I’ve been a lunatic all my life,”
he confesses, referring to his fasci-
nation by all things moon-related.
This obsession led to him combing
through NASA’s archives, where
he became especially passionate
about the release of the Apollo
manned lunar landing mission
photos in 2015. ”It was so fasci-
nating when they released this
library online of all the photos,” he
says. “I always felt a really strong
connection [to the moon landing],
so getting to dive into the library
of never-before-seen pictures was
really fun for me.”
SHOOT FOR
THE MOON
Halldór admits to being a nostalgic
person, he ties his nostalgia espe-
cially to the 1969 moon landing
and the movie “Apollo 13”, which he
watched almost daily when he was
a child. It was also at a young age
that he started to dream of setting
his own foot on Earth’s only natu-
ral satellite, he confesses to having
not given up on the journey, prom-
ising to give the Grapevine the
streaming right when he does.
In 2020, Halldór will partici-
pate in Reykjavík’s annual Design-
March, where he will be working
with generative plants in the
basement of Ásmundarsalur. In
the music department, he is plan-
ning to play some more gigs and
continue working on a new album.
“I’ve been a
lunatic all
my life.”
“We want to
be party role-
models.”