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previous artist: sigillum s		there are 7 titles featuring sigtryggur berg sigmarsson in stock. they are listed below.		next artist: signal

$16.24

back in stock as of
november 28th, 2008

first in stock on
october 15th, 2007

threads:
electro-acoustic-composition
sound-art
minimalism-drones

bottrop-boy (germany) #b-boy 013 cd

sigtryggur berg sigmarsson “a little lost” compact disc

my treasure ship
the day microphones came to live
a small dose of space madness
dark olive-green-loking blood
the hero returned back home empty handed
der fuchs trinkt (bier und schnapps)
a very memorable day back in august of 1977
ve-e-ry pretty (with bibbi on the controls)
tribute to nico fidenco
pining for azoth (whilst gaseous)

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sigtryggur berg sigmarsson
a little lost
cd / b-boy 013

icelandic musician (now based in hannover, germany) sigtryggur berg sigmarsson has been a longtime member of the band stilluppsteypa. since some time he has been releasing solo works as well, with albums on trente oiseaux, ers and fire inc. this is his new solo album, and the best example of the variety of his musical talent. a little lost contains three lengthy tracks, one beautiful piece that gets close in spirit to ambient, one collage piece using amongst else spoken word and a third track which is maybe closest to the familiar sound of stilluppsteypa, on which he got help from irr.app.(ext.).

$4.98

new to stock as of
june 26th, 2007

threads:
modern-psych
minimalism-drones
lo-fi

brutal sound effects (usa) #bse melancholy cd

sigtryggur berg sigmarsson / tender morsels / rubber 0 cement “melancholy petri muse si-si-si” compact disc recordable

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...pitting stilluppsteypa’s sigtryggur berg sigmarsson (if you’re on the hn-am list, surely you know siggi by now?) against rubber 0 cement and tender morsels in a...

brutal sound effects press release...

melancholy petri muse si-si-si: with the audio teamwork of sf's tender morsels and international recording legend sigtryggur berg sigmarsson, rubber 0 cement has pushed out a golden log of audio experiments. much of this cd has been taken from weeks of recording and finally ends with a short petri-muse video for computer play only. notice in this release that the microphone is placed in a petri dish where we all tried to grow the perfect muse. failure to actually suceed in this experiment resulted in some really good sounds...

$13.25

back in stock as of
october 24th, 2007

first in stock on
december 18th, 2003

threads:
electro-acoustic-improvisation
digital-musics

erstwhile (usa) #erstwhile 016 cd

stilluppsteypa / tv pow “we are everyone in the room” compact disc

michigan impossible (13:41)
for starters we have nothing conclusive (17:18)
where's your asian girlfriend (4:08)
international starving artists (9:27)
this place looks like flint or double ass shot (you guys can pick
we like double ass shot) (4:16)

erstwhile press release...

stilluppsteypa (heimir björgúlfsson, sigtryggur berg sigmarsson, helgi thorsson): powerbooks and minidisc players
tv pow (todd a. carter, brent gutzeit, michael hartman): laptops, cds, and electronic instruments

stilluppsteypa and tv pow are two of the most prominent laptop trios in the world of experimental music. originally hailing from iceland, stilluppsteypa was formed in 1992, and the current lineup of heimir björgúlfsson, sigtryggur berg sigmarsson, and helgi thorsson has been together since 1995. they've released work on such prestigious labels as ritornell, meme, and their own fire.inc. imprint, but we are everyone in the room is their first improv record. based in chicago, tv pow (todd carter, brent gutzeit and michael hartman) was founded in 1995, and has performed with such prominent musicians as otomo yoshihide, erik m, taku sugimoto and john butcher. gutzeit and hartman also run the influential labels boxmedia and gentle giant, respectively, where most previous tv pow material has appeared.

in late october 2000, stilluppsteypa and tv pow embarked on a week-long tour of the us. the two groups, while familiar with each other's output, had never worked together before, but did so for part or all of each of these performances. we are everyone in the room was compiled from these shows, including their first collaboration ever at tonic in nyc. stilluppsteypa and tv pow combine a thorough knowledge and wide range of microscopic sounds with an uncanny feel for their deployment within an improv context.

the captivating cover art was created by leif elggren, a swedish conceptual artist and co-founder of the kingdoms of elgaland-vargaland.

$12.81

back in stock as of
june 18th, 2008

first in stock on
april 23rd, 2008

threads:
electro-acoustic-composition
minimalism-drones

the helen scarsdale agency (usa) #hms 013 cd
helen scarsdale agency (usa) #hms 013 cd

bj nilsen / stilluppsteypa “passing out” compact disc

passing out (67:50)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "passing out"

a single hour-plus construct/suite jointly composed by the stilluppsteypa duo of sigtryggur berg sigmarsson & helgi thorsson and bj nilsen ; not exactly the ice-cold blast of scandinavian warmth you might expect, but a rather zonked cut-up of tape-speed mangle & deviant synth-patterns - of the triptych of albums that make up the trio’s work for hms, this one’s my favorite (for obvious / aesthetic reasons) ...

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hms013
bj nilsen & stilluppsteypa
passing out
cd

release date: april 2008

the first chapter found the drink.
the second came after a night of intoxicated shouting.
the third chapter is inevitable: passing out.

the nordic sound artists bj nilsen & stilluppsteypa have authored the last component to a trilogy of isolationist compositions for barren field recordings and lumbering electric drones, thematically linked in the psychotropic effects of alcohol. in doing so, they have issued a brief statement in defense of their research: "it's been four years and three studies, passing out being the final. even in its most general, colloquial usage, passing out indicates the occurrence of a state that is incompatible with active behavior. it is possible that the individual could experience both consciousness and unconsciousness at the same time while encountering passing out."

yes, passing out is a crepuscular recording, with the flickering of twilight further dimmed by the distant arctic sun in wintertime and the blackened numbness of too much drink. with one singular track that spans 60 minutes, a nearly constant thrum and rumble of monochromatic low frequencies casts a grim pall upon the precisely dialed-in modulations and vibrations. spectral guitars, maudlin tunes from haunted radios, angrily growling voices, and field recordings of wind-whipped snow and ice bury themselves deep amidst these subharmonic drones. all of these tease at the edge of perception, sculpting the narrative of the drone into a vehicle for unhinged expressionism of varying degrees of horror, melancholy, beauty, and oblivion.

the swedish born bj nilsen defines his work as "focused upon the sound of nature and its effects on humans, and the perception of time and space as experienced through sound." he has numerous recordings on touch and has collaborated with the likes of chris watson, christian fennesz, and z'ev. the icelandic citizens sigtryggur berg sigmarsson and helgi thorsson are stilluppsteypa, whose electronic abstractions engage absurd theatrics that mar the pristine surface of minimalism.

passing out features letterpress and silkscreen artwork in an edition of 1000. there are two separate versions of the artwork: one with all black, the other with the white overprint on semi-opaque vellum.

$12.01

back in stock as of
june 18th, 2008

first in stock on
june 26th, 2007

threads:
electro-acoustic-composition
minimalism-drones

the helen scarsdale agency (usa) #hms 008 cd
helen scarsdale agency (usa) #hms 008 cd

bj nilsen / stilluppsteypa “drykkjuvísur ohljódanna” compact disc

svefnlaus / sömnlös (14:44)
elstöt / rafstuf (12:36)
undir ahrifum / sundurlaus (12:29)
supbröder / drykkjufélagar (6:15)
undermaskin / töfra maskína (4:20)
skuggbild / skuggamynd (13:28)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "svefnlaus / sömnlös"

the helen scarsdale agency press release...

hms008

bj nilsen & stilluppsteypa
drykkjuvisur ohljodanna cd

release date: september 26, 2006

in scandinavia, it's not uncommon to hear of someone's mother, grandfather, uncle, or plumber who drank him-or-herself to death at an early age; and the swedish drone artist bj nilsen has felt the alcoholic pangs which may foreshadow his own demise. in recent years, nilsen has turned to his icelandic neighbors sigtryggur berg sigmarsson and helgi thorsson (collectively known as stilluppsteypa) in existential sympathy over the problems of their collective lust for alcohol. drykkjuvisur ohljodanna marks the second collaborative document of abject minimalism that these three have composed; and like its predecessor vikinga brennivin, this album is spiked with drunken thought. any alcohol induced euphoria has been tempered by perturbing blackouts, moments of cruelty, and an all-consuming nihilism. beyond their shared scandinavian heritage, their expressionist urge for the frigid drone, and their penchant for drink, bj nilsen and stilluppsteypa intend this recording as an open ended experience, wandering through their sound without the burden of any exegetical text that may get in the way.

drykkjuvisur ohljodanna resolves itself as a grim kaleidoscope, where the bleakness of the wintry scandinavian landscape and the langour of a drunken escapade constantly mutate through the highly refined sensibility of dronescaping. sonar pings announce the beginning of this album, with its echoes returning as an amorphous fog and locating little but a gloomy pall upon the event horizon. clattering electronics scurry across the barren sounds like death-watch beetles upon the tundra; and creaking doors offer something much more foreboding than what pierre henry envisioned for musique concrete. drykkjuvisur ohljodanna adheres to the psychological dis-quiet through sound design that alan splet provided for eraserhead or that nurse with wound achieved on salt marie celeste. yet for all of their tendencies for brooding and desolation, bj nilsen & stilluppsteypa retain a compulsion for a glacial beauty through their intoxicated visions of the sublime.

bj nilsen has released numerous records for touch and ash international, both under his given name and as hazard, often focusing the sound of nature, its effect on humans, and the perception of time & space as experienced through sound. he has also previously collaborated with christian fennesz and chris watson. stilluppsteypa have unleashed well over a dozen releases in their tumultuous existence of electro-absurdism laced with subversion, blackhumour, and horror.

drykkjuvisur ohljodanna is a limited edition pressing of 1000 copies.

$13.21

back in stock as of
june 18th, 2008

first in stock on
june 26th, 2007

threads:
electro-acoustic-composition
sound-art
sound-poetry

the helen scarsdale agency (usa) #hms 007 cd
helen scarsdale agency (usa) #hms 007 cd

m.s. waldron / steven stapleton / sigtryggur berg sigmarsson / jim haynes / r.k. faulhaber “the sleeping moustache” compact disc

sprawled naked across a piano (10:13)
the over-night sister (1:47)
a few items known as children (10:45)
look out! that one's dangerous. (2:31)
a bottomless black eye (10:08)
woolen pubic hair (2:11)
a little act of familiar daily routine (10:21)
annoyance, ignorance, and forgetfulness (3:20)
oh sir, i'm scared (11:15)
candlelight ceremonies for killing time (2:26)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "look out! that one's dangerous."

the helen scarsdale agency press release...

hms 007

m.s. waldron, steven stapleton, sigtryggur berg sigmarsson, jim haynes, and r.k. faulhaber
the sleeping moustache cd

release date: may 2, 2006

let's begin with the introductions.

m.s. waldron may be best known for his work as irr. app. (ext.), an unwieldy moniker that begets uncanny, hallucinatory sound. steven stapleton is the genius behind nurse with wound, the consistently unpredictable project that scrambles musical obsessions for krautrock, surrealism, and avant-garde composition into a brash quest for expressionism through experimentation. sigtryggur berg sigmarsson hails from the icelandic electro-absurdist duo stilluppsteypa, which continues to investigate the finer points of drunken minimalism. jim haynes prefers to merely state that he rusts things. r.k. faulhaber is something of a mysterious figure, looming around mr. waldron's irr. app. (ext.) recordings and performances while keeping his own work a hermetic secret.

each with a peculiar understanding of the audio arts, these five artists came to the proverbial table and thought it a good idea to collaborate. given the predilection for the surreal and the sidereal that each of these five employ in their many audio and visual projects, those agendas oozed from the recordings that became known as the sleeping moustache.

an epiphany of controlled disorder, a convulsion of beauty, a cascade of thought from delirious minds, the sleeping moustache is an exquisite manifestation of sound poetry scattered into a tortuous collage mired in an oblique melancholy. magnetic tones extracted from the ether, mechanical sounds smeared into a lugubrious growls, horns trumpeting straight out of john's book of revelation, ululations sliced into information overload that schwitters himself would be proud of. the sleeping moustache presents a psychically instable landscape, where dreams and nightmares wreak havoc upon the drudgery of daily life. the closest audible territory for the sleeping moustache might be the psychoactive constructions of nurse with wound's homotopy to marie, although the characters in this drama happened upon an entirely different map of that terrain.

the artwork for the first edition of the sleeping moustache features five letterpress prints from each of the artists with an edition of 1700.

$12.01

back in stock as of
april 23rd, 2008

first in stock on
february 17th, 2005

threads:
electro-acoustic-composition
minimalism-drones

the helen scarsdale agency (usa) #hms 004 cd
helen scarsdale agency (usa) #hms 004 cd

b. j. nilsen / stilluppsteypa “vikinga brennivin” compact disc

en dåre kan fråga mer än tre visa kan svara (einn fáviti getur spurt meira en thrír adrir geta svarad) (12:54)
heiler, thorn eirs hlyddu (lycklige de, som lyssnat) (12:26)
untitled (1:37)
vidunder (4:20)
det är bäst att jag börjar, annars kommer jag aldrig hem (nú er kominn tími til ad byrja, annars kemst eg ekkert aftur heim) (24:51)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "heiler, thorn eirs hlyddu ..."

february 2005 collaborative effort between the icelandic/dutch ensemb. stilluppsteypa (very active in the pre-and-post digital sound-research wasteland of the late 90s) and touch/ash artist bj nilsen (aka hazard).

the helen scarsdale agency press release...

hms 004

bj nilsen & stilluppsteypa
vikinga brennivín cd

release date: april 5, 2005 brennivin is an icelandic liquor vulcanized from the humble potato and flavored with cumin, although you’d be hard pressed to taste much beyond the astringent burn that it leaves in your mouth. bottled in matte black glass and stamped with ominously simple labels, brennivin appears less like something to imbibe and more like poison; and in that creeping slow death kind of way, it is. for the icelandic electro-absurdist outfit stilluppsteypa, brennivin has soaked into every fiber of their being; and as a result, oozes out of their terminal drones, sputtered rhythms, and atomic fractures. as much brennivin (and mind-altering chemicals in general have been a muse for stilluppsteypa, they are also a curse; stilluppsteypa’s oblique dada expressionism and devilish black humour erupt with megalomaniacal invincibility that comes with a few too many drinks; but at the same time, stilluppsteypa has developed a parallel ethos of clinical minimalism the reflects the introspection, headaches, and melancholia of the morning after.

in their poetically abject celebration of brennivin, stilluppsteypa (comprised of sigtryggur berg sigmarsson and helgi thorsson) accepted the invitation from swedish composer bj nilsen to collaborate upon an album related to alcohol and its mind-numbing effects. nilsen has been working in various constellations of experimental music, best known for his recordings as hazard published through touch and ash international. focusing the perception of natural sounds through a reconstruction of time and space, nilsen has rendered the commonplace sounds of wind, rain, and snow as stealthfully seductive and quietly menacing drifts of frozen sound. their resultant collaboration is an existentialist allegory in which the three drunkenly stumble out in a scandinavian winter night and spiral toward the inevitable point in which they blackout. lest this be construed as a derelict piece of method acting, the craft that nilsen, sigmarsson, and thorsson brought to vikinga brennivin is impeccable, as the extended soundfields breath with the majesty of distant fog horns and sparkle with the delicate light of countless stars cast down from the black heavens onto the frozen tundra below. frightening and barren, yet hauntingly compelling, vikinga brennivin is an isolationist masterpiece.

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