Me and flautist Helen Whitaker performed my Glacier’s Elegy in Iceland last July 2020. The performance took place in a small pretty village called Hvammstangi in the north of the country.
Glacier's Elegy is a 30 minute long music-installation in 5 sections for voice, vocoder, laptop and flute. Glacier's Elegy is inspired by the welfare of your planet. It is the Glacier’s farewell, the final farewell. Snæfellsjökull-glacier steps forward and addresses humankind for the last time and uses references from several works of Icelandic literature to communicate. The references are from works by romantic poet Steingrímur Thorsteinsson, novelist Halldór Kiljan Laxness, modernist poet Steinn Steinarr, and from Bárðar Saga Snæfellsáss. Flautist and improviser: Helen Whitaker https://www.helenwhitakerflute.com/
Here is a promo recording excerpt:
“It is my most dearest wish
that I may rejoin this place
and soar like an extraordinary bird
over Icelandic mountains
after I am dead”