Bergur Þórisson and Pétur Jónsson ICELAND
HARPA nominated 2021 for their score for Hrafnhildur Gunnarsdóttir (IS) ’The Vasulka Effect’
’The Vasulka Effect’, a feature film length documentary, is a classic fairytale but with some unusual twists: In the beginning the princess rescues the prince and the “heroic journey” is not linear on the normal time-scale. This is a story about a labour of love on a personal, creative, narrative and musical level.
The subjects, Steina and Woody, represent the classical and the avant-garde, artistry and craftmanship, the analogue and the digital and the music follows and embodies all those aspects. With their feet firmly planted in all those worlds the composers illustrate in a subtle and effective way the Vasulka’s enermous and mostly overlooked contribution to our modern world.
We have been become accustomed to the overlap of sound and vision but the music portrays the sine sine waves, the fast Fourier transforms, the characters, the historical context and the complex emotions in a unique and touching way befitting the subject. A labour of love that mirrors and enhances the protagonists, the sensitive and inventive direction and a timeless inspiring story.
Icelandic jury:
Hilmar Oddsson| film director
Margrét Örnólfsdóttir | screenwriter and composer
Pétur S. Jónsson | composer
Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, composer
’The Vasulka Effect’, a feature film length documentary, is a classic fairytale but with some unusual twists: In the beginning the princess rescues the prince and the “heroic journey” is not linear on the normal time-scale. This is a story about a labour of love on a personal, creative, narrative and musical level.
The subjects, Steina and Woody, represent the classical and the avant-garde, artistry and craftmanship, the analogue and the digital and the music follows and embodies all those aspects. With their feet firmly planted in all those worlds the composers illustrate in a subtle and effective way the Vasulka’s enermous and mostly overlooked contribution to our modern world.
We have been become accustomed to the overlap of sound and vision but the music portrays the sine sine waves, the fast Fourier transforms, the characters, the historical context and the complex emotions in a unique and touching way befitting the subject. A labour of love that mirrors and enhances the protagonists, the sensitive and inventive direction and a timeless inspiring story.
Icelandic jury:
Hilmar Oddsson| film director
Margrét Örnólfsdóttir | screenwriter and composer
Pétur S. Jónsson | composer
Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, composer
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Multitalented instrumentalists and musicians Bergur Þórisson and Pétur Jónsson have forged a musical lane all their own with a genre-defying sound. Together they have formed a band called HUGAR, combining their shared passion for music.
The longtime friends and natives of Seltjarnarnes, the smallest township in Iceland, just outside of Reykjavík, began writing music together in 2013. Through a series of impromptu sessions, Bergur and Pétur recorded and released their independent self-titled debut "Hugar" the following year, making it available for free on their website. The sweepingly multi-layered and ethereally ambient album quickly amassed an organic following of listeners and has since racked up over 30 million streams worldwide on Spotify alone. A mere six years later, on the strength of that self-released free download, they have collaborated with Iceland’s leading like minded artists (Björk, Sigur Rós, Ólafur Arnalds and Jóhann Jóhannson) and earned international praise from the likes of The Independent, Rolling Stone, Clash, KEXP and The Line of Best Fit; racked up 52 million streams and counting. They have also released a fully formed major-label debut, "Varða", on Sony Music Masterworks. Bergur and Petur recently released their soundtrack album for the film “The Vasulka Effect”. It is a mix between a soundtrack and a regular album as they decided to keep working on the music after the scoring was finished and turn it into an album. It is out on all platforms via Sony Music Masterworks and a vinyl is coming soon. |