Suð (Noise) is an open sound installation where guests create a living soundscape by touching, experimenting with, and playing unusual noise instruments.
The sounds travel through speakers that amplify, distort, and transform them in unpredictable ways.
The work continuously evolves as more people take part. Curiosity, experimentation, and collective creation are at the core of the piece, where spectators become participants and the music is created in the moment.
Little Seigla - Noise
Harpa tónlistar- og ráðstefnuhús, Austurbakki 2, 101 Reykjavík Directions
Sat 08.08.2026 12:00
ABOUT STUDIO SUÐ
Markús Bjarnason is a designer and artist with a degree from the Iceland University of the Arts. His work explores the intersection of sound, design, and visual art, with a particular focus on perception and the experience of space.Markús Bjarnason and Heiðbjört Arney Höskuldsdóttir are the founders of Stúdíó Suð, an art-driven design studio operating between the fields of design and art, with a special interest in noise, both visual and sonic.
The Suð-instruments they have developed are unconventional sound objects that function as playable sound sculptures. Visitors are invited to touch, explore, and play them, creating evolving soundscapes through interaction. The sounds travel through Suð-speakers, resulting in a constantly changing sonic environment shaped by participation and experimentation.
Markús Bjarnason is a designer and artist with a degree from the Iceland University of the Arts. His work explores the intersection of sound, design, and visual art, with a particular focus on perception and the experience of space.Markús Bjarnason and Heiðbjört Arney Höskuldsdóttir are the founders of Stúdíó Suð, an art-driven design studio operating between the fields of design and art, with a special interest in noise, both visual and sonic.
The Suð-instruments they have developed are unconventional sound objects that function as playable sound sculptures. Visitors are invited to touch, explore, and play them, creating evolving soundscapes through interaction. The sounds travel through Suð-speakers, resulting in a constantly changing sonic environment shaped by participation and experimentation.
Performers
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Seigla Festival's Final RecitalSeigla Festival is a classical music festival held in Harpa on the 5th-7th of August. Browse the festival programme on our website at: seiglafestival.com Seigla Festival’s final recital features music by American and Nordic composers, starting with Hallelujah Junction, a two piano piece by John Adams. The main characteristics are short rhythmic patterns that echo between the two instruments, and serve as an analogy for how traffic at a junction moves. The rhythmic patterns of the opening derive from the word „Hallelujah“, where the accent lands on the third syllable, through which one might hear the rhythm of the pianos say “llelujah, llelujah, llelujah…”. The two instrumentalists play the rhythms at a slight delay, creating a sense of planned resonance or echo. Hallelujah Junction is loosely structured into three contrasting movements whereas the music flows in gradual changes towards the final moments: a true onomatopoeic feast. Here, we get to hear the rhythmic pattern of the full four syllables in the word „Hallelujah“ as well as the „Junction“ being thrown rapturously between the two instruments. Despite the fact that the Nordic composers and contemporaries Edvard Grieg and Jean Sibelius never managed to actually meet in person, they respected one another’s music and even wrote letters stating their mutual admiration. Both were big admirers of the German Lied and wrote significant collections in the style. Six Songs, Op. 48, by Edvard Grieg are among his best known and beloved. After the intermission we will hear three short and romantic solo pieces by Jean Sibelius from his Ten Pieces for Piano, Op. 24. Sibelius’ larger-scale pieces are by far his best known, his symphonies and violin concerto, but he also wrote a considerable amount of incredibly beautiful lieder, chamber pieces and piano pieces which are seldom performed. Seigla Festival’s Final Recital concludes with Amy Beach’s songs for voice, violin, cello and piano. Beach was the first American woman to achieve widespread recognition as a composer. An incredible artist and pioneer, she wrote over 150 songs to poems both by herself and others, and often influenced by folk music. Performers: Hlín Pétursdóttir Behrens, soprano Vera Hjördís Matsdóttir, soprano Ólafur Freyr Birkisson, bass baritone Gunnhildur Daðadóttir, violinist Guðný Jónasdóttir, cellist Elisabeth Streichert, pianist Erna Vala Arnardóttir, pianist Pétur Ernir Svavarsson, pianist
