Bergur Anderson

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Bergur Anderson is a visual artist, composer and sound maker. Through various solo and collaborative projects he makes publications, performances and installations that reflect on his interests in polyphonic storytelling, orality and the transitory qualities of sound. Next to his own practice, Bergur collaborates with artists who seek to expand the notion of sound in their practices — as a composer, recordist, sound designer, mixing engineer and performer for various live and published works.

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    • WORM sound studio

    Residenties / uitwisseling

    • 08-12-2022 t/m 15-12-2022
    • In samenwerking met: Katrina Niebergal
    • Locatie: WORM, Rotterdam
    • Residency in WORM's sound recording studio. Compositions, sound-design and soundtracking with and for Katrina Niebergal's film / installation project. Photo: Still from Katrina Niebergal's work-in-progress film.
    • https://worm.org/spaces/sound-studio/

    Around the Songster's Commune

    Overig

    • 21-11-2022
    • In samenwerking met: Futura Resistenza
    • Locatie: , Rotterdam
    • Sound publication released on cassette with Rotterdam-Brussels based label Futura Resistenza. Around the Songster's Commune is a sonic drift into troubadour poetry and song. It is collected meditations: compositional fragments, whimsy ditties, field recordings and experiments with troubadour song-making methodologies. Recorded during a residency at Jambes, Brussels, in May 2022. Also released online via their website.
    • https://berguranderson.bandcamp.com/album/around-the-songsters-commune

    Collected Earworms

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    • 08-10-2022 t/m 13-11-2022
    • Locatie: Kling & Bang, Reykjavík
    • Solo exhibition at Kling & Bang, Reykjavík. For this project, I worked with the phenomenon of earworms: songs and fragments of sound that get stuck in your head. I collected recordings of my voice singing earworms as they emerged in my mind — later using them as raw materials for a sound composition for this space. For me, it was a way to materialize ideas about personal and collective (sonic) memory; residual noise; and my own melodic and poetic capacities.
    • http://berguranderson.info/web_2021/works/collectedearworms.php

    Jambes

    Residenties / uitwisseling

    • 09-05-2022 t/m 15-05-2022
    • Locatie: Jambes, Brussels
    • Residency at Jambes — a sound recording studio in Brussels commissioning new works by artists experimenting with sound and voice. While there, I recorded and composed for a release titled "Around the Songster's Commune".
    • http://jaaambes.be

    Night Time Transmissions

    Overig

    • 01-11-2021
    • In samenwerking met: Gunnar Gunnsteinsson, Sigrún Gyða Sveinsdóttir, Singing Club of Rotterdam, Futura Resistenza
    • Locatie: , Rotterdam
    • Sound publication released on vinyl with Rotterdam-Brussels label Futura Resistenza. It is the result of research into polyphonic storytelling and explores how contemporary stories can be told musically. Through sound, collaboration, character and world-making, it meditates on gentrification; anxiety; healing aspects of sound; and songs as harbingers for social change.
    • https://berguranderson.bandcamp.com/album/night-time-transmissions

    English Rhymes: Volume I / Accidental Poems & Idiom Proposals

    Overig

    • 01-06-2022
    • In samenwerking met: Katrina Niebergal
    • Locatie: , Rotterdam
    • Self-published artist book. Edition of 30, 110 pages. Between September 2020 and April 2021, Katrina and I collected the accidental/incidental rhymes made when speaking — we each acted as the collector and editor of the other's poems and compiled these into this first double volume, collectively titled Poems.
    • http://berguranderson.info/web_2021/works/poems.php

    en of Moods

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    • 17-04-2021 t/m 09-05-2021
    • In samenwerking met: Á. Birna Björnsdóttir
    • Locatie: The Pole, Rotterdam
    • Duo exhibition with Á. Birna Björnsdottir. 10 glazed ceramic candleholders, candles, flag piece. Ten of Moods marks the completion of a cycle, taking one hard look at the past in order to emancipate possible futures. It appears at dusk, when the day's work is over and shadow-seeking worlds begin to unfold; when light captures and holds our deepest thoughts and desires. Through systems of representation and numerology we can investigate what the future holds.
    • https://thepole.nl/FLYING-NO-9

    Singing Club of Rotterdam

    Project

    • 01-02-2019 t/m 31-12-2021
    • In samenwerking met: Jake Caleb, Clara J:Son Borg
    • Locatie: Various artists' studios, De Player, WORM, Rotterdam
    • Co-founding member, organizer and facilitator of artist run anti-choir. Singing Club of Rotterdam is an experimental anti-choir initiated in early 2019. Clubbers meet every other week to explore what can be done with the voice. For every semester the club chooses a theme to focus on from an ever growing manifesto; previously the club has explored "how not to give a fuck" and "listening to all our voices."
    • https://singingclubrotterdam.hotglue.me/

    The one and only body of The Hum and Lego Flamb

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    • 07-06-2019 t/m 23-06-2019
    • Locatie: Harbinger, Reykjavík
    • Solo exhibition at Harbinger, Reykjavík. Bushes are shaking. A hum is heard from a distance. A foot taps a gentle beat. A voice enters and sings a familiar melody. “The one and only body of The Hum & Lego Flamb” is an exhibition that brings two characters who live in Bergur's practice to Harbinger project space. Featuring guests Karen Huang, Rúnar Örn Marinósson, Sigrún Gyða Sveinsdóttir, Albert Finnbogason and Pétur Eggertsson.
    • http://berguranderson.info/web_2021/works/harbinger.php

    Motto's journey

    Overig

    • 04-12-2019 t/m 04-10-2020
    • In samenwerking met: Palanga Street Radio
    • Locatie: , Nida, Vilnius, Reykjavík, Rotterdam
    • 10 Research Mixtapes. From December 2019 to October 2020 I embarked on a research trajectory into the realms of musical storytelling, publishing a monthly research mixtape on Lithuanian community radio platform Palanga Street Radio. A visual language, inspired by classic interpretations of the numerical processions found in the Tarot, was developed in drawings I made to accompany each episode. These depicted hybrid figures made of stars, people and plants.
    • https://soundcloud.com/bergurta/sets/mottos-journeys

    Nida art colony

    Residenties / uitwisseling

    • 01-12-2019 t/m 01-02-2020
    • Locatie: Nida art colony, Nida
    • Artist-in-residence at Nida Art Colony, in Lithuania. Researching and developing work for project "Mottos Journey: Discovering storytelling agency in polyphonic practices".
    • https://nidacolony.lt

    project space at7

    Project

    • 01-07-2017 t/m 05-04-2021
    • In samenwerking met: Vera Mennens, M. Maria Walhout
    • Locatie: Broedplaats LELY, Hotel Maria Kapel, Available & The Rat, Amsterdam, Hoorn, Rotterdam
    • Co-founder and organizer of artist initiative project space at7.
    • http://seeyouat7.nl