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Valgeir Sigurðsson on Dissonance, Composition and Greenhouse Studios | Red Bull Music Academy

1,879 views · Published 11 May 2018 · 55:02 · Indexed 22 September 2026

Channel: Red Bull Music Academy · 2018 · Entertainment

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In this public conversation as part of Sónar Reykjavík, Sigurðsson discussed his career, from founding Greenhouse Studios to recording his latest album, Dissonance, and detailed his particular approach to composition. 

TOPICS:
13:07 - Greenhouse Studios
16:41 - Bedroom Community
20:43 - Nico Muhly
29:43 - Writing for film and dance
34:43 - Dreamland
40:49 - Dissonance 

MUSIC:
1:14 - Prince — “When Doves Cry” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG3VcCAlUgE 
20:30 - Nico Muhly — “Keep in Touch” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffio4e1Op1o 
34:41 - Valgeir Sigurðsson — “Draumalandið” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_WdweP6TOA 
50:47 - Valgeir Sigurðsson — “Dissonance” 

Valgeir Sigurðsson is an Icelandic musician who blends the familiar and esoteric, exposing the new within the known. Over the last two decades, Sigurðsson has cultivated projects by diverse international artists via the Bedroom Community label, which he co-founded with Ben Frost and Nico Muhly, and lent his expertise to the likes of Brian Eno, Sigur Rós and Feist as the founder of the Greenhouse Studios, one of Iceland’s top recording facilities. His career flourished in 1998 when Björk requested him as engineer and programmer for Lars von Trier’s Academy Award-nominated Dancer in the Dark soundtrack, a monumental project that combined his passion for electronic, orchestral and film music. Over the past decade Sigurðsson has released four solo albums of modern, experimental classical, further cementing his role both in the tight-knit Icelandic community and abroad. 

The Red Bull Music Academy is a global music institution committed to fostering creativity in music. We celebrate music, its culture, and the transformative minds behind it. Begun in 1998, the Academy has taken the core principles that underlie its annual workshop for selected participants and applied this curatorial approach to events, lectures, and city-wide festivals throughout the year.

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