Bára Gísladóttir Orchestral Works
VAPE (Audio sample)
VAPE (Audio sample)
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1.
VAPE (Audio sample) (2016, rev. 2020)
for orchestra
for orchestra
12:48
2.
Hringla (Audio sample) (2021–22)
for amplified solo double bass, orchestra and electronics
for amplified solo double bass, orchestra and electronics
16:46
3.
COR (Audio sample) (2021)
for orchestra
for orchestra
16:57
World premiere recording
Bára Gísladóttir, solo double bass
Iceland Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Eva Ollikainen
Bára Gísladóttir (b. 1989) considers sounds, instruments and ensembles as living organisms. In VAPE, Hringla and COR, the Icelandic composer and double bassist engages with the largest musical organism of all: the symphony orchestra. Through these works, we follow Gísladóttir’s fascination with language and coincidence; we hear an uncompromising interrogation of the body’s excesses and ailments; and, most of all, we see life, vaporous and between states, neither dark nor light.