
Rhízōma was re-released on Sono Luminus is 2020. Released on Rhízōma, Anna’s debut portrait album, in October 2011, by Innova Recordings. The work was funded in part by The Icelandic National Broadcasting Service Composers’ fund. The piece is inspired by the notion of dispersion, represented as release and echoing in the sense that single elements in the music are released and spread through the ensemble in various ways throughout the process of the piece. Hrím was written in late 2009 and early 2010 as a commission for The UCSD New Music Ensemble to serve as a companion piece to Ligeti's chamber concerto. Read about Cerebrum Dispersio by The Binding of Isaac (Afterbirth) OST and see the artwork, lyrics and similar artists. The end frequencies are dropped small amounts, to compensate for the wide dispersion of colours at either end of the spectrum. Thorvaldsdottir’s piece, the strings and woodwinds effectively created a dark atmosphere and the impression of a distant, howling wind early on, before melting into the work’s morphing harmonic fabric." - Allan Kozinn, The New York Times, December 6th 2011įlute, oboe/also plays english horn, clarinet, bass clarinet, horn, trombone, piano/also plays celeste, 2 violins, viola, cello & double bass. from The Binding Of Isaac - Afterbirth: OST, track released October 30, 2015.

during the music monitoring process, which corresponds to the transmural dispersion of. … The performances were consistently invigorating. Cerebrum Dispersio (Boss Alt) by Ridiculon, released 30 October 2015. These fluctuations represent the output of a complex brain-heart. "Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s “Hrim” was about dispersion - the idea of fragments and motifs traveling through the ensemble, transforming a static harmony into a shimmering, harmonically ambiguous, thoroughly enveloping texture. … Not through quaint, picturesque mimicry, but with potent evocations of elemental power, flux and potential." - Steve Smith, The New York Times, December 10th 2013 "In just eight minutes, perfectly encapsulates her uncanny knack for conjuring the natural world.

" Hrím was beautiful, seductive, inevitable and reassuring. Thorvaldsdottir’s ear is powering the discourse in Hrím just as much as her brain." - Andrew Mellor, Seismograf, January 30 2018 Premiered by CAPUT Ensemble at the National Gallery of Iceland, May 5th 2010.įunded in part by The Iceland National Broadcasting Services Composers’ Fund.
