Re-conduct will be performed at Rhythms beside Regions.Sól Ey (b. 1996) is an Icelandic composer and new media artist based in Copenhagen. She makes performances, interactive installations, and designs instruments that combine sound, space, movement, light, and the body. Often working with sensors and new technologies, her work emphasises immersion, participation, and social interaction. Currently, her artistic research focuses on the possibilities of the human body when extended with electronics or objects. Sól Ey’s works have been presented at festivals such as Nordic Music Days, Rewire (NL), Reykjavik Art Festival (IS), Dark Music Days (IS), NEXT (SK), Ung Nordisk Musik and Gaudeamus (NL). Furthermore, she is active as a curator and organiser, notably as the founder of RASK, a collective of Icelandic artists working with art and technology, curator of Platform Bunker in Copenhagen, and festival leader of the Ung Nordisk Musik festival in Reykjavik 2022. She studied composition at the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague and was a research fellow at the Academy for Theater and Digitality in 2022. In 2024-2026, she is the artist-in-residence with Ensemble Modelo62.
Re-conduct
From the perspective of geological time, the production of a loudspeaker can take a million years. Copper, which is essential for converting electronic signals to sound, forms through a series of geological events in the Earths crust before it is accessible for human production. Considering this vast process, how is a loudspeaker related to nature? How can it be planted, grown and harvested? And can copper conduct a memory, through the object it becomes?