Through this project, I aim to create performances in which technology becomes an extension of the ancient, ancestral voices pulse through light and sound, creating portals between eras, cultures, and inner worlds.
"We are effectively plunged into a moving, transmorphic maelstrom of acoustic sounds textured by digital manipulation. The sound of the cello becomes a malleable material that organically redistributes itself across an unsuspected spectrum of timbral possibilities. Intriguing and impressive."
Screenshot of "Flip Book"
Composed and improvised cello, Icelandic voice recordings, digital audio production, audio-reactive video, light, and lasers
create immersive environments that transform traditional folk songs through technology.
How do ancestral voices resonate in the digital age?
As the smallest addressable unit of digital media, the pixel parallels ancestral traces, appearing as micro-fragments that
require activation. Each sample of Ingibjörg’s voice becomes a sonic pixel—latent until
addressed within a larger system of relations.
The contrast between analog tape grain and digital precision reveals how ancestral presence emerges through micro-level operations.
VIDEOS
"Flip Book"
"Sentient Descent"
"Full+Empty"
Afterlife EP
Lo-fi cassette recordings of my great-grandmother, Ingibjörg
Guðmundsdóttir (1891–1994) creates layered temporalities, as she blurs the boundaries
between past and present.
The Waterfall and the Oak
(Start at 0:17) Treated with Effects
Icelandic Folk Song ‘Fossinn og eikin’ by Páll Jónsson
Sung by Ingibjorg Gudmundsdottir (1891-1994)
Translation:
"The waterfall sang joy and hardship, battle and love, life and death. Day and night, its roots are buried in the dark depths while reaching toward the sun. Love, Freyja, and fate intertwined in its song, as did the enduring strength of the oak tree’s roots." These thematic contrasts also influenced the sonic design.
These sonic interventions serve as portals, where folklore and futurism meet.
"[We] can comfortably speak of “an oral poem” as a freestanding item—is necessarily to take it
out of context. And what is the lost context? It is the performance, the audience, the poet, the
music, the specialized way of speaking, the gestures, the costuming, the visual aids, the occasion,
the ritual, and myriad other aspects of the given poem’s reality [...]".
-Terry Gunnell, “Performance Archaeology, Eiríksmál, Hákonarmál, and the Study of Old Nordic Religions,” in
John Miles Foley's World of Oralities: Text, Tradition, and Contemporary Oral Theory, ed. Mark C. Amodio (Arc
Humanities Press, 2020), 137.
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Live Performances (2025)
"Live Medley"
Sampled voice of Ingibjörg Gudmundsdóttir (1891-1994), 'What is B4 You' (Icelandic folksong guitar loops with original lyrics), followed by an improvised cello section with effects over real-time loops—the introductory movement to 'Sorcery,' with audio-reactive laser lights.
August 21st, 2025, Brooklyn, NYC
Draw the Line ft. Ingibjörg Guðmundsdóttir:
Live performance of 'Draw the Line' incorporating archival recordings ofIngibjörg Gudmundsdóttir. Building from manipulated cello loops and ancestral vocals into an original composition.
Mothership NYC, August 27th, 2025.
Live audiovisual performance of 'Seek Solace' feat. Siide Quest.
Real-time audio-reactive visual projection designed and operated by Tyr Jami.
Mothership NYC, August 2025. Videography by Edward Pankov
Visual Works
Highlights reel - 2024 (music, visuals, performance)
Music and audio-reactive visuals by Tyr Jami
Music and audio-reactive visuals by Tyr Jami
Each excerpt is 1.5-2 minutes
1.Once in a Lifetime
2.Nouvelles Roses
3.The Sacrifice
4.Live excerpt
5.Wait for the Sun
6.Abundance
Stills from 'Nouvelles Roses' featuring audio-reactive visuals with Icelandic landscape footage.
Screenshots of "Abundance", created using archival VHS tape and video effects
(2024)
The visuals of VHS static relate to crossing between the thresholds of the conscious and subconsciousness, blurring the lines of fantasy and reality, analog (VHS) and digital (effects)
Screenshots of "Sleep Darling" (2023)
The "Sleep Darling" visuals depict 4 states of water: Solid, liquid, foam, and vapour.
Each Icelandic folk song and place sampled to create this work carries a story that inspired it, allowing for new interpretations of folk songs and tales.
"Exalted" (2022)
A collage of ethereal texture and melody fusing colour blends and forms using 16mm and 8mm
archival footage with samples of Arca and cello. Live performance with audio-reactive inherited
archival footage.
"The Door" (feat Siide Quest)
Music + Visuals by Tyr Jami