Davíð Brynjar Franzson
Davíð Brynjar Franzson is an Icelandic composer, based between NYC and Abu Dhabi.
Recent projects include an Urban Archive as an English Garden, developed in collaboration with Halla Steinunn Stefansdottir (Nordic Affect), Ryan Muncy (ICE), Russell Greenberg (Yarn/Wire), and Matt Barbier (Gnarwhallaby); Particular Forms of Forgetting, developed in collaboration with Yarn|Wire, both of which are developed through a joint artist research residency at Ircam and Zenter für Kunst und Medientechnology.
Other recent projects include the Negotiation of Context in collaboration with Yarn/Wire––described as "engagingly tactile" by the NY Times, "compelling" by the Wire which selected the release as one of their top 10 modern composition releases of 2014, and as "sonic art that is clearly going places" by Gramophone; the cello concerto on Matter and Materiality, commissioned by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the Icelandic National Radio’s commissioning fund––described as "strikingly static" by the Guardian; and the Cartography of Time, an ongoing exploration of the experience of time, developed in collaboration with Gnarwhallaby, Vicky Chow (Bang on a Can), Mariel Roberts, Matt Barbier and Weston Olencki (RAGE thromboses), Matthias Engler, and Ingolfur Vilhjalmsson (Ensemble Adapter).