Creation

In Niflheim, at a place called Hvergelmir, there is a source of eleven rivers said to be the origin of all existence and the place where every living thing will return.

We begin with blank nothingness, like the white ice of Niflheim, and from this emerges the light of Ymir, whose presence solidifies to make the rocks and mountains — his hair flowing into rivers and his skin growing the grass. At the end of the chaos, a portrait of the human form holds its place in time. It was from Ymir’s armpits that the first man and woman grew.

Static glitches and feedback distortion search for the frequencies that pinged about before sound ever settled into the harmonies we have tuned. Like the light, it too has the objective of finding presence and stability.

Creation was produced in Iceland with performer Svala Johannsdottir and sound artist Eirik Boen Gravdal.