Ben Frost & Daníel Bjarnason - SÓLARIS
 Ben Frost & Daníel Bjarnason - SÓLARIS
Ben Frost
Daníel Bjarnason
 Ben Frost & Daníel Bjarnason - SÓLARIS
Ben Frost
Daníel Bjarnason
 Ben Frost
Daníel Bjarnason
Ben Frost (born 1980) is an Australian composer and producer. He is based in Reykjavík, Iceland. Frost composes minimalist, instrumental and experimental music. Daníel Bjarnason is a composer and conductor from Reykjavík, Iceland.
He studied piano, composition and conducting before leaving Iceland to pursue studies in orchestral conducting at the Freiburg University of Music, Germany. He is a part of the Icelandic music label/collective Bedroom Community.
Ben Frost and Daníel Bjarnason
are two composers used to shrugging off the distinction between experimental sound-art and deeply felt melodies.
Frost’s vast, blackened post-industrial works often crystallize in moments of quiet beauty before disintegrating in pure visceral noise;
Bjarnason’s orchestral music marries brutal modernism to classical aesthetics one moment and soaring ethereal harmonies the next.
And yet here, on the tail of two widely acclaimed releases; Bjarnason’s PROCESSIONS and Frost’s BY THE THROAT, we are given something altogether new.
A unique collaboration, SÓLARIS is a quiet, stilled and all consuming symphonic suite at once as affecting and uncanny as the science- fiction classic that inspired it.
The power of Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris is not in its futuristic sets, or in the hypnotic shots of the alien planet’s weird, fluid surface, but it’s in the way he juxtaposes his alien, futuristic elements against the intimately familiar. This is a future not just of flashing lights and video screens, but of wood and wool and leather, of dogs and horses, books and photographs. In Frost & Bjarnason’s SÓLARIS we do find the futuristic, gaseous atmospheres and pulses one might expect from a sci-fi soundtrack. Yet here they are carved instead from the warm, fragile sonorities of a string orchestra -Poland’s Sinfonietta Cracovia- a gently prepared piano whose harmonies warp and melt before transforming again—and waves upon waves of guitar.
For a free download of the song "Reyja" and to purchase the album go here: https://danielbjarnason.bandcamp.com/
Daniel Bjarnason and Ben Frost: A soundtrack to Solaris. So it goes with Daniel Bjarnason and Ben Frost, who composed Music for Solaris together. The idea was to make music inspired by the 1972 film by Andrei Tarkovsky and the 1961 novel by Stanislaw Lem, both of which mingle post-human ruminations on metaphysics with fantastical science-fiction airs. It was commissioned by Unsound to be performed with 30 or so players from Krakow's Sinfonietta Cracovia, a group put through various avant-garde paces by its founder Krzysztof Penderecki.
SÓLARIS, the stunning collaboration between Ben Frost and Daníel Bjarnason featuring Sinfonietta Cracovia, is now out on Bedroom Community. For a free download of the song "Reyja" and to purchase the album go here:
https://danielbjarnason.bandcamp.com/ and bedroomcommunity.net
Video shot and edited by Krzysiek Rosa. SÓLARIS is a concept by Mat Schulz, commissioned and produced by Mat Schulz and Gosia Plysa for Unsound Festival/Fundacja Tone, Krakow, Poland. Assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body. Made possible with the support of “I, CULTURE” - The International Cultural Programe of the Polish EU Presidency, Co-Ordinated by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Poland - and S.T.E.F, Iceland. Daníel's next album Over Light Earth is due to be released on the 30th September 2013. It is currently available for pre-order now via his bandcamp page: danielbjarnason.bandcamp.com...
Сила фильма Андрея Тарковского Solaris находится не в его футуристическом смысле, но в противопоставлении чуждых, футуристических элементов очень знакомым... В Frost & Bjarnason’s SÓLARIS мы находим футуристическую, газообразную атмосферу и импульсы, которые можно было бы ожидать от научно-фантастического саундтрека. Но здесь они высечены из теплого, хрупкого звучания струнного оркестра - Польского оркестра Sinfonietta Cracovia - нежно подготовленного фортепиано, чьи деформации гармоний и расплывание перед следующим преобразованием — и волны гитары... Путешествие во внутренний мир, в себя, поток чуда, ужаса, печали и нежности и восхитительного чувственного опыта.
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