SØS Gunver Ryberg DENMARK
Performing Artist at HARPA Awardshow 2020
SØS Gunver Ryberg is an award winning composer, sound artist and live performer known for her releases and also her extensive compositional and soundtrack work for video games, films, VR/AR, international theatre and dance productions.
She has been awarded several times for her music and significantly a BAFTA nomination for her work on the multi award winning video game INSIDE.
SØS Gunver Ryberg is known for her uncompromising intensity, groundbreaking and genre-defying electronic music. Transforming the listener, opening their consciousness to new dimensions through powerful and complex timbres and textures and captivating new rhythms. Her music embodies a blend of futuristic and timeless musicality, fearlessly embracing the present while offering perspectives into an unknown future. It holds the promise of more awareness.
Latest album SPINE 2023 on ARTERIAL is sparkling with its dreamy sequences and sonic expressionism and also has all the previously mentioned qualities inherent in Ryberg’s sound. Still, the tone has changed — the thunderclouds have parted, revealing sophisticated futuristic soundscapes on the cusp of IDM, ambient, techno, and dub. “CLOTH mag “It’s no tentative toe dip of an affair – more like a full on leap into the icy waters of true experimentation.” Juno Daily best Album of the week."She creates electronic gold" Seismograf /// "'SPINE' is, like everything touched by SGR, insanely well-produced and sonorous, and just simply skillfully made." Passive Agressive. /// "It's great that we have some of the best the genre has to offer on Danish soil." "Excellent abstract album" Information Danish Newspaper.
SØS Gunver Ryberg performs her music at festivals and venues all over the worlds such as Berlin Philharmonie concert hall, Danish National Radio concert hall, Aphex Twin Curates, Berghain, Atonal Festival, Roskilde Festival, Flow Festival etc. to art galleries and museums to site-specific locations such as an underground water reservoir, a subway train, a swimming pool, a abandon power station and an old industrial ship to name a few.
She has been awarded several times for her music and significantly a BAFTA nomination for her work on the multi award winning video game INSIDE.
SØS Gunver Ryberg is known for her uncompromising intensity, groundbreaking and genre-defying electronic music. Transforming the listener, opening their consciousness to new dimensions through powerful and complex timbres and textures and captivating new rhythms. Her music embodies a blend of futuristic and timeless musicality, fearlessly embracing the present while offering perspectives into an unknown future. It holds the promise of more awareness.
Latest album SPINE 2023 on ARTERIAL is sparkling with its dreamy sequences and sonic expressionism and also has all the previously mentioned qualities inherent in Ryberg’s sound. Still, the tone has changed — the thunderclouds have parted, revealing sophisticated futuristic soundscapes on the cusp of IDM, ambient, techno, and dub. “CLOTH mag “It’s no tentative toe dip of an affair – more like a full on leap into the icy waters of true experimentation.” Juno Daily best Album of the week."She creates electronic gold" Seismograf /// "'SPINE' is, like everything touched by SGR, insanely well-produced and sonorous, and just simply skillfully made." Passive Agressive. /// "It's great that we have some of the best the genre has to offer on Danish soil." "Excellent abstract album" Information Danish Newspaper.
SØS Gunver Ryberg performs her music at festivals and venues all over the worlds such as Berlin Philharmonie concert hall, Danish National Radio concert hall, Aphex Twin Curates, Berghain, Atonal Festival, Roskilde Festival, Flow Festival etc. to art galleries and museums to site-specific locations such as an underground water reservoir, a subway train, a swimming pool, a abandon power station and an old industrial ship to name a few.
Nominations
Nordic Council Music Prize 2022 Steppeulven – Danish Music Critics’ Awards – Composer of the year 2021 The Camille Awards – European Film composer awards – Best Electro Acoustic Score Cutterhead 2021 Robert Award – Score of Year Cutterhead 2020 BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television) – Best Music Inside 2017 DDJA – AFTRYK Danish Album of the year 2017 SPILPRISEN – Best Sound Design THOTH 2017 The Games Awards – Music and Sound design Inside 2016 Golden Joystick Awards – Best audio Inside 2016 Independent Games Festival – Excellence in Audio Inside 2016 Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences D.I.C.E. Awards – Outstanding Achievement in Sound Design Inside 2016 |
Awards
Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl - Nielsen Honorary Award -Composer 2022 H.C. Lumbye Award – Composer 2021 Carl Prize, Score – Cutterhead Composer of the year 2020 Premiers Plans, French Film Festival in D’Angers – Best Music Prize Cutterhead 2019 Emotional Game Awards – Best Emotional Music Inside 2017 SPILPRISEN – Best Sound Design Inside 2017 The Edge Awards – Best Audio Design Inside 2016 Game Developers Choice Awards – Best Audio Inside 2016 The Danish Art Agency – Music to Inside 2016 Danish Composers’ Society’s prize 2011 The Danish Art Agency – Music to Wilhelm Tell 2011 |