Pixelated Ancestors investigates the liminal space between ancestral memory and emerging technologies. blending audio-reactive visuals, lasers, cello, and ancestral recordings to explore animism and folklore through performance, connecting nature and technology, analog and digital.
At the heart of this project is a question: How do ancestral voices resonate in the digital age? Can memory, myth, and spirit be preserved—or even reborn—through contemporary media?
My workflow balances technical precision with intuitive creativity. I explore musical and visual ideas through a multi-angle approach—modulating colour palettes, vocal layers, and rhythmic structures.
Through this project, I aim to create performances where technology becomes an extension of ancient stories—where ancestral voices pulse through contemporary machines, and light and sound open portals between times, cultures, and inner worlds.
Screenshots from "Nouvelle Roses" Audio-reactive visuals, footage from Icelandic nature
Improvised cello, effects, audio-reactive laser and visuals with backwards cello loop playback. March 1st, 2025
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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)
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
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.
Live performance with cello effects, December 2024
Manipulated with a loop pedal with audio-reactive laser light.
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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)
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, inviting audiences into worlds where folklore meets futurism.
Through this layering, Ingibjorg's voice becomes more than a historical artifact—it becomes a living instrument in a technologically mediated ritual.
Original Drawing with video effects, Screenshot from "Wait for the Sun", 2024
