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(via Space weather over south east Iceland, 9th of June, 2017)

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Eystrigjá by Arnarstapi

The weather in Snæfellsnes peninsula, west Iceland was beautiful in the last weekend of August 2020. Me and two other friends went there to record nature sounds. Recordings were made from the noisy…

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Dögun við Eyrar

Thanks to COVID, I got a unique opportunity this summer to record in places I have so far not been able to record because of traffic, mainly due to tourists. One such site was Skeiðarársandur, a br…

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Dawn in Skálholt in mid July 2020

This following recording was made between 03:00 and 04:00, It is a part of seven hours long recording between 02:00 and 09:00 which I did in Skálholt, south Iceland 10th of July. The grass was tal…

This is my contribution to World Listening Day, today 18th of July. #wld2020 #ecoacoustics #acousticecology #WorldListeningDay #fieldrecording #audio #audioart #awareness #soundart #soundwalk #Bioacoustics

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The silence on Vesturöræfi

Natural silence is my favorite recording material, mainly because now a days it is so difficult to find it and it gets more difficult every year. I have been interested for salience in many years, …

Sound of natural silence...and bunch of pictures of lost landscape which nobody will see again.

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Noisy anglers on the lake Holmavatn

Hólmavatn is a heath lake in the interior in west of Iceland between the two valley Kjarrárdalur and Hvítársíða. It is a part of a big lake system on a heath named Arnarvatnsheiði. I have once befo…

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Dawn at Kjallaksstaðavogur

It is rear now a days to discover new places without traffic or engine nose. I found one in June 2019. It was at Fellströnd, in the northwest of Iceland. That means I have natural silence for more …

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Spring at Svartárkot

Svartárkot means “Black River Croft” and is a working sheep farm at the southernmost part of Bárðardalur valley in northern Iceland. It lies on the western bank of Svartárvatn lake, at the southern…

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Lewit LCT540s and the curious Rock Ptarmigan

For a long time I have used Rode NT1a for nature recordings. It is a very good mic to capture the finest details in quiet soundscapes. But at the same time there is something missing in the sound q…

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Ritugjá in Látrabjarg

Látrabjarg, is a promontory and the western most point in Iceland (and Europe). The cliffs are a home to millions of birds, including puffins, northern gannets, guillemots, black legged kittiwake a…

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Skinnalónsheiði

Imagine, It is 3:30, mid summer morning. You are within five kilometers from the arctic circle and two and a half kilometers from the north Atlantic ocean. It is calm, and dry and the sun which has…

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Elliðaey island part 1

Remote islands are interesting places. Almost every island has it’s own ecosystem which can be interesting to record. One of those islands is Elliðaey, which is a part of Vestmannaeyjar islan…

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Svarthvítur draumur á tónleikum 24. Nóvember 1985

Frá því í byrjun ágúst 1984 til vors 1989 tók ég upp marga tónleika, bæði erlendra tónlistamanna sem innlendra. Margir þessara tónleika voru haldnir af hljómplötuútgáfunni Gramminu þar sem Ásmundur…

It is exactly 33 years since i did this recording with Cassette recorder. I am sure I can not do it better today with my high quality digital equipment

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Dawn in Ásbyrgi

Ásbyrgi has a fantastic soundscape. It is one of the wonders of nature, a forested horse-shoe shaped canyon in Oxarfjordur. Asbyrgi is a part of Jökulsárgljúfur, within the Vatnajökull National Par…

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Crawling glacier, under and above the lagoon

Last month I published hydrophone recording „Crawling glacier“ from the lagoon beneath Svínafellsjökul icefall. The original recording contains two other channels with the sound above t…

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Crawling Beast

It is a special feeling to stay close to a glacier. It’s like standing near a wast monster that is constantly moving, but very slowly. Everywhere around this flexible ice the gravity of the ice is …

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Misty morning

Iceland’s electricity is produced almost entirely from renewable energy sources: hydroelectric (70%) and geothermal (30%). Less than 0.2% of electricity generated came from fossil fuels (in t…