{"id":58667,"date":"2024-06-05T10:14:30","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T10:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/?post_type=event&#038;p=58667"},"modified":"2024-06-05T10:25:16","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T10:25:16","slug":"nidur-an-icelandic-circus-on-ljosagangur","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/event\/nidur-an-icelandic-circus-on-ljosagangur\/","title":{"rendered":"Ni\u00f0ur &#8211; an Icelandic Circus on Lj\u00f3sagangur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ni\u00f0ur, an Icelandic Circus on Lj\u00f3sagangur, is the installation and live performance of a 1979 composition by John Cage.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Originally titled Roaratorio, an Irish Circus on Finnegans Wake, Cage\u2019s work transformed Joyce\u2019s novel into a musical performance. His score for the piece consists of detailed instructions on how to reconstruct any literary work in this manner. In this first Icelandic version a team of artists and academics will transform Dagur Hjartarson\u2019s novel Lj\u00f3sagangur into an installation and live musical performance.<\/p>\n<p>The work will take place at the Nordic House, in the area where the novel is set. Ni\u00f0ur will be performed by Skerpla &#8211; Experimental Sound Lab from the Iceland University of the Arts, led by professor Berglind Mar\u00eda T\u00f3masd\u00f3ttir, working with Cage specialist Victoria Miguel and composer\/sound engineer Jesper Pedersen.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Installation 11 June at 5 pm.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Concert 11 June at 8:30 pm.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contributors: <strong>Berglind Mar\u00eda T\u00f3masd\u00f3ttir, Victoria Miguel, Jesper Pedersen, Skerpla Music Group\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Partners: Iceland University of the Arts (music department), Iceland University of the Arts (research fund), Glasgow University<\/p>\n<p><em>Accessibility to Elissa is good, a ramp leads up to the main door. Accessible and gender neutral bathrooms are on the main floor. Please note that due to ongoing renovations outside we are unsure how the accessibility will be at the time of the event. For more information: kolbrun@nordichouse.is<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ni\u00f0ur, an Icelandic Circus on Lj\u00f3sagangur, is the installation and live performance of a 1979 composition by John Cage. Originally titled Roaratorio, an Irish Circus on Finnegans Wake, Cage\u2019s work transformed Joyce\u2019s novel into a musical performance. His score for the piece consists of detailed instructions on how to reconstruct any literary work in this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":58659,"template":"","event-categories":[5,60],"class_list":["post-58667","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event-categories-concert","event-categories-all-events","event_tags-listahatid-en","no-banner-image"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/58667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-categories?post=58667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}