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多重身份（作曲家，演奏家和文化推手）的Jóhann Jóhannsson是冰島新音樂場景中最活躍的人物之一。作為作曲家和演奏家，Jóhannsson那莊嚴的，漸長的，旋律優美的，令人難忘的音樂在過去幾年里正悄悄地吸引了更多聽眾。他在倫敦實驗廠牌Touch發表的前兩張個人專輯Englab?rn（2002）和Virthulegu Forsetar（2004）盡管宣傳不多，但都獲得了眾多粉絲，熱烈的媒體評論及入選眾多樂評年度最佳。他最具野心的作品《IBM 1401，一本用戶手冊》動用了60人的弦樂隊錄制，根據冰島引入的第一臺大型計算機IBM 1401當年所作的音樂錄音而作，也獲得媒體高度評價。他還是組合Apparat Organ Quartet和Evil Madness的成員。除此以外，他還為不同風格的音樂人譜寫和制作音樂，如Marc Almond (Stranger Things專輯), Barry Adamson和Pan Sonic, Hafler Trio, Magga Stína等等。他還為多部戲劇，紀錄片譜曲以及電影長片配樂。作為文化推手他是藝術組織/智囊團/廠牌Kitchen Motors的創始人之一。該組織專門撮合跨界合作，推廣演出和展覽，室內劇，影片制作，書籍，電臺節目。這些活動都基于實驗，合作和探索新的藝術形式的理念。 by Heather Phares Composer/producer/multi-instrumentalist Jóhann Jóhannsson is one of Iceland's most prolifically creative musicians, as a solo artist as well as a part of the Kitchen Motors label and collective (which also includes members of Sigur Rós, Múm, and Slowblow) and also Apparat Organ Quartet. Kitchen Motors' aesthetic, which focuses on largely improvised and electronic music, also applies to his other projects: Apparat Organ Quartet, which describes its music as "machine rock and roll," consists of four keyboardists who play discarded vintage instruments that they refurbish and a drummer. Jóhannsson's work on his own ranges from delicate laptop pop to sound art installations in galleries to collaborations with Barry Adamson, the Hafler Trio, and Pan Sonic. His first solo album, 2002's Englab?rn, paired a string quartet with percussion, keyboards, and electronics in a series of bittersweet miniatures, while 2004's Virthulegu Forsetar was a much more expansive work scored for brass, organ, keyboards, and electronics that was composed for and recorded in Reykjavik's Hallgrimskirkja Church. The British label Touch released both of these albums, but 2005's Dis was issued by Worker's Institute. For 2006's IBM 1401, A User's Manual, Jóhannsson moved to 4AD. One of Jóhannsson's most ambitious projects, it was inspired by the first computer brought to Iceland in 1964 and based on a recording on an IBM computer that his father made on a reel-to-reel tape recorder. A string quartet version of the work was performed as the accompaniment to a dance piece by choreographer Erna Omarsdottir at the 2002 Dansem Festival. The recorded version of IBM 1401, A User's Manual incorporated vocalizing, electronics, and a 60-piece orchestra along with the original recordings of the IBM computer.