Come onboard and experience the electronic day-concert on the nostalgic and illustrious boat Norðlýsið. This montage lets you experience the half-day trip in 20 minutes, where you get to hear the five electronic acts briefly. 0:00 - Intro 1:00 - Kn0t (on the deck) 6:00 - HÚS (Grotto Concerto inside cave) 9:34 - Playmo (Grotto Concerto) 11:50 - Stormkrókur (on the deck) 16:00 - hzd (in the mess) Recorded, mixed and edited by Sámal Jákup Jakobsen The concert was part of Summartónar 2021, which is a music festival that lasts all summer and hosts all kinds of concerts in all kinds of places in the Faroe Islands. Read more about it on https://composers.fo/summartonar/

A docuteaser on the Faroese ballet "The Four Towers," performed by the group Yggdrasil at the Nordic House at the 2014 Summartónar festival. Composed by Kristian Blak, choreographed by Búi Rouch, designed and directed by Sámal Blak, the ballet is based on a poem by William Heinesen. Dancers: Miké Thomsen, Búi Rouch Yggdrasil: Anders Hagberg (flute, saxofone), Guðni Franzson (clarinet), Kristian Blak (piano), Heðin Ziska Davidsen (guitar), Mikael Blak (bass), Brandur Jakobsen (drums) Lighting engineer: Árni Baldvinsson Sound engineer: Tórstein Olsen Video production: Torfinnur Jákupsson (jakupsson.com)

Faorese Band ORKA and Singer Teitur live @ Summartónar Festival in Gjógv, Faroe Islands. The concert was held in a gorge which is used as a harbour. Great acoustic and great view!

Summartónar 2013 á Stóra Dímun

This is the fifth piece performed by the group EKA in the Nordic House in the Faroe Islands. Recorded, mixed and edited by Sámal Jákup Jakobsen The concert was part of Summartónar 2021, which is a music festival that lasts all summer and hosts all kinds of concerts in all kinds of places in the Faroe Islands. Read more about it on https://composers.fo/summartonar/

(lyrics and album link further down) Reproduced with kind permission from Kringvarp Føroya. Hamradun performing a psalm by Mikkjal á Ryggi in Tvøroyrar Kirkja (Church of Tvøroyri) for Faroese national television in 2018. This song was also recorded for our first album "Hamradun", released in 2015 on TUTL records, available here http://tutlrecords.com/products_show.php?l=en&ProductId=747 Line-up: Pól Arni Holm: lead vocals Uni Debess: guitar, backing vocals John Egholm: guitar Finnur Hansen: keyboard, backing vocals Heri Reynheim: bass Rani Christiansen: drums Church organ intro by Petur Martin Johansen Lyrics: 1.Tað er ein stutt og stokkut løta, so fara vit úr hesi verð; í himmiríki aftur møta vit teimum, sum vit mistu her, sum tú algóði faðir mín í náði leiddi heim til tín. 2. Hjá Guði glað tey okkum bíða, í sælu teimum tíðin fer. O, faðir! gev oss kraft at stríða, til fagnarstundin komin er, tá loyst frá lívsins neyð og sorg vit vinna heim í tína borg. 3. Tá gloymd er øll vár svára møði, tí Jesus turkar burt hvørt tár; í endaleysu andans frøi vit liva har í ótald ár; tá syngja vit so glað og sæl: Guð gjørdi alt so sera væl!

This is the third and final piece of the Passepartout & Arnold Ludvig concert, that took place in the wool shop Navia, Toftir. Recorded, mixed and edited by Sámal Jákup Jakobsen The concert was part of Summartónar 2021, which is a music festival that lasts all summer and hosts all kinds of concerts in all kinds of places in the Faroe Islands. Read more about it on https://composers.fo/summartonar/

This is the fifth piece performed by Anna Iachino, accompanied by Arnold Ludvig. The show is called "Storytelling + Poetry with electronics" and was performed at Blábar, Tórshavn. Recorded, mixed and edited by Sámal Jákup Jakobsen The concert was part of Summartónar 2021, which is a music festival that lasts all summer and hosts all kinds of concerts in all kinds of places in the Faroe Islands. Read more about it on https://composers.fo/summartonar/

Composer: Jesper Pedersen. Experimental piece for harp, musical saw, thunder sheet and electronic sound machines. The piece uses animated notation and is performed by Duo Harpverk somewhere in the Faroe Islands on the Summartónar Festival. Score: http://vimeo.com/50446539 Instructions: http://www.slatur.is/jesper/Instructions/SpookySpiral.pdf Jesper Pedersen 2012 www.slatur.is/jesper www.duoharpverk.com

Concert at Sirkus Föroyar 26th of June 2020 as part of the Summartónar festival. A sonic exploration utilising modular synthesizer, amplified glockenspiel, FM radio and field recordings. Balancing the boundary of signal and noise. 0:00 Intro (Glockenspiel, live sampling and granular playback) 2:40 Enter white noise 4:03 Rhythmic filtered white noise 5:16 Rhythmic filtered spring reverb 6:54 Kick and drone 10:50 Add clap 11:27 Chord progression 12:19 Harmonics melody on drone 13:59 Glockenspiel added 15:42 Bass riff 16:32 Noise melody 17:15 Field recordings ocean added 19:59 Synths out 20:44 Birds and wind in trees 22:05 Raindrops on shattered glass 22:52 Bowed glockenspiel 26:40 Bowed glockenspiel sampled + manipulated field recordings 28:05 Adding synths 29:45 Building blocks 31:52 Synths + sampled bowed glockenspiel 32:35 Glockenspiel melody 34:51 Vocoding FM radio 35:20 Leaking FM radio into sound 35:48 Jamming radiostations 38:05 Applause

Extract from the track "Sigursljóð" - live from Nordic House, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands. Line up: Dánjal á Neystabø - piano, vocals Kim Rafael Nyberg - piano, keys, backing vocals Heðin Ziska Davidsen - guitar, electronics, glokkenspiel, backing vocals Mikael Blak - bass, electronics Alexander Kraglund - violin Angelika Hansen - viola Per Ingvald Højgaard Petersen - drums Roma Komar - sound design, trumpet Video edited by Liv Anastasia Ikkala. Filmed by Liv Anastasia Ikkala and Emil Sandvad http://www.klingra.dk

Come onboard and experience the electronic day-concert on the nostalgic and illustrious boat Norðlýsið. This montage lets you experience the half-day trip in 20 minutes, where you get to hear the five electronic acts briefly. 0:00 - Intro 1:00 - Kn0t (on the deck) 6:00 - HÚS (Grotto Concerto inside cave) 9:34 - Playmo (Grotto Concerto) 11:50 - Stormkrókur (on the deck) 16:00 - hzd (in the mess) Recorded, mixed and edited by Sámal Jákup Jakobsen The concert was part of Summartónar 2021, which is a music festival that lasts all summer and hosts all kinds of concerts in all kinds of places in the Faroe Islands. Read more about it on https://composers.fo/summartonar/

Duo LiveOak performing in the 2011 Summartónar Festival of Contemporary Music. This video is of "The Restored" and "Meditation", the last two of nine songs called Woman of the Water written by Frank Wallace to the poetry of Theodore Roethke. Originally for ten-course lute, it is played on a Stephan Connor ten-string guitar in a concert that took place at Nordic House in Tórshavn in June, 2011. Photographs by Nancy Knowles: www.nancyknowles.com Frank Wallace editions are published by Gyre Music at www.gyremusic.com. Stephan Connor: www.connorguitars.com

This is the fourth piece performed by Anna Iachino, accompanied by Arnold Ludvig. The show is called "Storytelling + Poetry with electronics" and was performed at Blábar, Tórshavn. Recorded, mixed and edited by Sámal Jákup Jakobsen The concert was part of Summartónar 2021, which is a music festival that lasts all summer and hosts all kinds of concerts in all kinds of places in the Faroe Islands. Read more about it on https://composers.fo/summartonar/

A Distant Wind | a medieval romance for solo guitar in two movements by Frank A. Wallace played on 1983 Romanillos Thanks to Aaron Green for the use of his gorgeous and rare guitars for these videos. Learn more: http://www.vintageclassicalguitars.net BUY sheet music & learn more: http://gyremusic.com/products/distant-wind/ A GIFT TO BO AND CHRIS I wrote A Distant Wind as a gift for Bo Isholm, his wife Hanna, and Connecticut guitarist Christopher Ladd. In July of 2018 Chris traveled to Torshavn, Faroe Islands where Bo and Hanna live. Together with Ragnar Olsen, guitar; and Angelika Nielsen, violin; they performed new works by Kristian Blak and myself at the 2018 SUMMARTÓNAR Festival. Bo is a guitarist, lutenist, teacher and former music school administrator. I met him in the summer of 2011 on a tour he helped organize in the Faroe Islands. The region is a small wonder of nature—home to grass, sky, ocean, humans, sheep and birds! The appearance is stark, but the amazing variety of color and light through clouds and mist is captivating. Chris is a long time friend who teaches at the Hartt School of Music in Hartford, CT. He and I share a deep love of chamber music, and Chris performs in various ensembles with other guitars, flute, violin and more. I have written music for Chris in the past and he has performed several of my solo works as well as ensemble pieces, most notably As It Could Be, commissioned by the Hartt School for their 50th Anniversary commemoration of the guitar department and its founder Richard Provost. ROMANCE WITH THE PAST The term romance has many meanings: excitement in love; a dream come true, a ballad in ancient literature, lush music or painting. I refer to A Distant Wind as a romance for all these reasons. The distant wind refers to the past coming back to life with new meaning for now. The piece develops from a starkly medieval style to a romantic ending. Bo and I share many paths on the course of life, and one is a romance with ancient music as well as modern. We have had romances with both lute and guitar at various periods in our lives. And so the transformation in the music represents our own love of all life and times. Bo and I also have romances with our wives. Recent struggles with health issues for all four of us have made those relationships even deeper and more important. I pray for Hanna and Bo in their difficult time, and I hope this small offering may be of spiritual delight to them. I know Chris also shares a deep connection with his wife and family. ROMANCE WITH THE ISLANDS Having performed there in 2011, I was invited to return to the Faroes in the fall of 2017 to play with Bo and present music of fellow Faroese musician Kristian Blak and myself. Kristian is the director of Summartonar Festival, a summer long celebration of life, art and music in the Faroes. The deep spirituality of the people is evident from the minute one sets foot in a home. Walls are covered in art, couches adorned with homemade wool weaving and pillows. Everyone seems to be an artist and the festival reflects this deep connection to human creativity. Life interrupted my plans. Serious illness forced me to cancel my trip. Bo told me then that major health issues were effecting a close member of his family. But the show goes on, and so I completed Gryphon for violin and guitar this past winter. I finished my arrangement of an earlier song for three guitars and violin called Woolgathering and I found a dear friend to substitute for my presence—Christopher Ladd of the Hartt School in Hartford CT. The second movement, is dedicated to Chris in thanks for his loyalty and adventuresome spirit. THE MUSIC A Distant Wind hearkens back to medieval times with the use of parallel fourths and fifths. These open harmonies were the harbinger of polyphony about a thousand years ago. I performed this music in the 1970’s and 80’s with Trio LiveOak. In the Middle Ages beautiful resonances were achieved by very simple harmonic means with two or three voices and the same approach is vibrant on the guitar; I enjoy working in this archaic style. TWO MOVEMENTS I have written several solo works for both guitar and mandolin in two sections, always with a dramatic slow first movement and a fleet presto to follow. Each has been named after an iconic bird: White Albatross, Blue Heron, Caracara, Black Falcon. This piece fits the mold and so I name each movement for two great sea birds of the Faroes. I) Tjaldur: The Eurasian oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus). Their annual arrival on about 12 March is celebrated by the Faroese people as the start of spring. For this reason, the tjaldur is recognized as the national bird of the Faroes. II) Drunnhvíti: The European storm petrel (Hydrobates pelagicus), or drunnhvíti, can be best observed in Nólsoy in the biggest colony of the species in the world. All Frank A. Wallace editions are published by Gyre Music at http://www.gyremusic.com/products/distant-wind/

FÓLKATÓNLEIKASTEVNAN (Folk Festival) Lyon Hansen (vocal, guitar, piano) HORRSE: Ragnar Finsson (vocal, guitar) Yggdrasil: Vera Kondrateva (vocal), Villu Veski (saxophone), Heðin Ziska Davidsen (guitar), Kristian Blak (piano), Mikael Blak (bass), Per Ingvaldur Højgaard Petersen (drums)

Nancy Knowles and I traveled to the Faroe Islands in June of 2011 at the invitation of Kristian Blak of the Summartónar Music Festival and Bo Isholm of the Tórshavn School of Music. We performed four concerts and gave a masterclass and conducted students in a concert of my music at The Faroe Islands Art Museum (Listasavn Føroya). Art for the Faroese is a daily part of life - like breathing. There are 18 islands interconnected by light and water, magnificent views of ocean, grassy hills with sheep and constantly changing sky everywhere. We were privileged to see a textile exhibit by Tita Vinther as well as the Art Museum of Sandur, Sandoy and many private collections. To explore: http://art.fo/en/cafe_and_art_shop.php; http://faroeislandsart.net/Index/Artists/Artists.html. Frank Wallace editions are published by Gyre Music at www.gyremusic.com.

This is the first piece performed by the group EKA in the Nordic House in the Faroe Islands. Recorded, mixed and edited by Sámal Jákup Jakobsen The concert was part of Summartónar 2021, which is a music festival that lasts all summer and hosts all kinds of concerts in all kinds of places in the Faroe Islands. Read more about it on https://composers.fo/summartonar/

This piece was performed by Guitars Combined at their concert in the Church of Tjørnuvík. "Fantasia" is composed by Sunleif Rasmussen. Recorded by Baldur Meitil Mixed and edited by Sámal Jákup Jakobsen The concert was part of Summartónar 2021, which is a music festival that lasts all summer and hosts all kinds of concerts in all kinds of places in the Faroe Islands. Read more about it on https://composers.fo/summartonar/

Score available at www.gyremusic.com. Mi Jardín de Calla was written in the winter of 2007 as a solo song for voice and guitar to be performed in the spring on an evening of "The Music of Frank Wallace". As concert plans progressed, I took the opportunity to use all 12 performers and arranged the piece for flute, cello, two singers and 4 guitar parts (doubled). My partner Nancy Knowles wrote the poem when we were on tour in Peru in the summer of 2005. The poem describes a beautiful "cloisters" in the center of Arequipa where the gentle breezes easily whisper through the open hallways and salons. Click here to see Knowles' beautiful photographic essay from that tour, Mi Jardín de Calla - http://www.nancyknowles.com/images/jardin2005/index.htm. This performance is by students of the Music School of Tórshavn, Faroe Islands. It was also performed at an evening of my music, but in a faraway land. Duo LiveOak toured the Faroe Islands thanks to Kristian Blak and the Summartónar Music Festival and Bo Isholm, director of the School - together they invited Duo LiveOak to visit the Faroes for a week of concerts and teaching (and exploring) in June 2011. Spanish and English version by: Nancy Knowles A través de cuantos siglos cuantas amenazas miles de corredores corregidores salas e iglesias cuartos vacíos donde transcurre el aire los gritos ya lejanos: mi jardín de calla. Across how many centuries how many threats thousands of corridors magistrates halls and churches empty rooms where runs the air the cries now from afar: my garden of calm. Video and photography by Nancy Knowles: www.nancyknowles.com Frank Wallace editions are published by Gyre Music at www.gyremusic.com.

This is the eight and last piece performed by Anna Iachino, accompanied by Arnold Ludvig. The show is called "Storytelling + Poetry with electronics" and was performed at Blábar, Tórshavn. Recorded, mixed and edited by Sámal Jákup Jakobsen The concert was part of Summartónar 2021, which is a music festival that lasts all summer and hosts all kinds of concerts in all kinds of places in the Faroe Islands. Read more about it on https://composers.fo/summartonar/

Water & Stone (2012) composed by Kristian Blak. Performed by Mattias Kapnas in the Nordic House at the Summar Tónar festival 2013 in the Faroe Islands.

DANCE is the 3rd movement of “Hymns and Ballads for two guitars” written by faroese composer Kári Bæk. Commisioned by Stauffer Guitar Duo in 2016 and premiered at the faroese Summartónar Festival that same year. Based on a tune which is usually sung by faroese chain dancers, Kári Bæk´s “Dance” is drawing on a very old tradition of story-telling, allthough it is here transformed into a modern musical language. Recorded in the Church of Skopun in december 2016. Recording by Benhan Studios. Please visit www.staufferguitarduo.com and www.facebook.com/staufferguitarduo

We played in Klæmintsgjógv in the Faroe Islands in 2019. The largest sea cave in the world, they say. As with many of our activities since 2018, this was made possible with funding from amongst others, Nordic Culture Point, Koda Kultur and the Faroese Culture Fund

This is the second piece of the Passepartout & Arnold Ludvig concert, that took place in the wool shop Navia, Toftir. Recorded, mixed and edited by Sámal Jákup Jakobsen The concert was part of Summartónar 2021, which is a music festival that lasts all summer and hosts all kinds of concerts in all kinds of places in the Faroe Islands. Read more about it on https://composers.fo/summartonar/

This piece was performed by Guitars Combined at their concert in the Church of Tjørnuvík. "Fjalla fall" (Mountain fall) is the third movement in the Home Suite by Sámal Jákup Jakobsen. Recorded by Baldur Meitil Mixed and edited by Sámal Jákup Jakobsen The concert was part of Summartónar 2021, which is a music festival that lasts all summer and hosts all kinds of concerts in all kinds of places in the Faroe Islands. Read more about it on https://composers.fo/summartonar/

This is the fourth piece performed by the group EKA in the Nordic House in the Faroe Islands. Recorded, mixed and edited by Sámal Jákup Jakobsen The concert was part of Summartónar 2021, which is a music festival that lasts all summer and hosts all kinds of concerts in all kinds of places in the Faroe Islands. Read more about it on https://composers.fo/summartonar/