Gudmundur Steinn Gunnarsson
Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson (b.1982) is from Reykjavik, Iceland. His music builds clear rhythms without a pulse or meter. In order for that to work he has been developing ways of making animated notation, to be read from computer screens.
He studied composition at Mills College with Alvin Curran, Fred Frith and John Bischoff and in Iceland with Atli Ingólfsson and numerous other Icelandic composers. He visited the Darmstädter ferienkurse in 2008 and Karlheinz Stockhausen’s courses in Kürten in 2004. He has also participated in masterclasses with Helmut Lachenmann, Tristan Murail, Pauline Oliveros and Clarence Barlow. Guðmundur’s music has been performed by Ensemble Adapter (DE), l’Arsenale (IT), Defun (FI), Njútón (IS), Arteriol (NO), Quartet Opabinia (US), Zapolski Quartet (DK), Duo Harpverk (IS), Shayna Dunkelmann and Tinna Þorsteinsdóttir. His music has been performed in festivals such as MATA (US), Time of Music (FI), Thingamajigs Festival (US), Reno Interdisciplinary Arts Festival (US), Frum (IS), Dark Music Days (IS), Nordic Music Days (2009 and 2010), Ung Nordisk Musik and venues such as The Stone (US), Empty Bottle (US), Literaturhaus (DK), Wendel (DE), Skånes konstforretning (SE), Stanford and Princeton Universities (US). Guðmundur is a founding member of the S.L.Á.T.U.R. experimental composers collective in Iceland. In 2011 Guðmundur won the National Radio of Iceland Composition Prize for the 80th anniversary celebration of the institution. The piece Mardiposa was also one of the contributions of the National Radio of Iceland to the IMC Rostrum 2011.
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