About

Icelandic new media composer, sound designer, audio engineer, and post-production mixer. Based in Copenhagen.

Originally a drummer and producer, he moved into working primarily with interactive and immersive compositions, often with visual and performative aspects. Since graduating from The Icelandic University of the Arts, most of his work has been scoring and sound-designing for theatre. He has received two nominations from the Icelandic Theatre Awards (Gríman) for best sound design.

Has over 6 years of experience as a live audio engineer and system tech, working at the Reykjavík City Theatre, Tivoli Copenhagen and freelance. Has worked on festival production at Lunga, Útkall and Distortion. Has also done engineering and post-production mixing for TV and film.

Sound design & composition snippets

Education

Bachelor's Degree in New Media Composition — The Icelandic University of the Arts, 2021

Grants & awards

2024Gríman nomination — best sound design (Lúna)
2022Gríman nomination — best sound design (Ég Hleyp)
2021STEF Recording Fund grant (Milljón Ár)
2021Rannís Recording Fund grant (Milljón Ár)

Skills & tools

Software

Qlab, Ableton, Pro Tools, Reaper, Logic Pro X, Max-MSP, Izotope RX, Wireless Workbench, Wavetool, REW, Smaart, L'Acoustics Soundvision, Resolume Arena, Dante (Level 3), Ambisonic processing.

Mixing consoles

DiGiCo (SD Theatre, Quantum), Allen & Heath SQ & dLive, Yamaha QL series, Midas M32.

Audio hardware

Klang, Shure Axient Digital. L'Acoustics, Meyer, and d&b line arrays. Experience designing and building recording studios.

Programming & automation

Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Companion, OSC, Python, Bash, Linux, SSH, Docker, Git, REST APIs, local LLM deployment.

Full CV

2024 — Sýslumaður Dauðans · Reykjavík City Theatre

2024 — Lúna · Reykjavík City Theatre · Gríman nomination

2023 — Teprurnar (The Prudes) · Reykjavík City Theatre

2023 — Með Guð í vasanum · Reykjavík City Theatre

2022 — Hamingjudagar (Happy Days) · Akureyri Theatre Company

2022 — Room 4.1 Live · Reykjavík City Theatre

2022 — Lónið

2022 — Ég Hleyp · Reykjavík City Theatre · Gríman nomination

2021 — Lungun (Breathe)

2021 — Krufning á Sjálfsmorði · National Theatre of Iceland

2019 — ROCKY! · Tjarnarbíó