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GOLDEN GLOBES 2015, from Beverly Hilton Hotel, Los Angeles, CA, USA
12.01.2015 22:47

GOLDEN GLOBES 2015, from Beverly Hilton Hotel, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Performer on Maribor Electronic Destination 2012, KIBLA, Maribor, (SI)
Jóhann Jóhannsson WINS:
2015 - Best Original Score - Motion Picture THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING

Golden Globes 2015 winner Jóhann Jóhannsson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEVSzXmzjv8

Photo: Golden Globes 2015

Jóhann Jóhannsson, born 19 September 1969) is an Icelandic composer and producer. The BBC has called him "an intrepid musical enigma" and his work has been called "elegant, haunting and melancholic". His music is frequently informed by minimalism, film music, baroque music and drone music and combines classical orchestration with electronic music. He was born in Reykjavík, Iceland.

His initial album, Englabörn, from 2002 was one of the first and most influential releases in the broad-reaching, post-classical/modern composition field. Jóhann Jóhannsson has released several albums with the 4AD, Touch and Fat Cat labels.
While Jóhann's background in Iceland’s flourishing alternative-music scene has influenced his work, Englabörn combined echoes of holy minimalism, Erik Satie, Purcell and Moondog with the electronic music of labels such as Mille Plateaux and Mego. Later works include Virthulegu Forsetar (2004), scored for a brass ensemble, electronic drones and percussion, and the orchestral albums Fordlândia (2008) and IBM 1401, A User's Manual, a composition which uses sounds produced from the electromagnetic emissions of the old IBM 1401 mainframe computers.
Jóhann's work has been widely acclaimed. Kitty Empire wrote about Virthulegu Forsetar in The Observer: "It's hard to classify this beautiful album by Icelandic composer Johannsson. On this, his second album, he employs an orchestra of 11 brass players, glockenspiel, piano and organ, with added bells and electronics; so it lies somewhere between classical, ambient music and experimental soundtrack", while Andy Beta gave 'Englabörn' a score of 8.9 in Pitchfork Media: “exceptionally restrained, the piano moving like droplets off of slowly melting icicles, the violin breathing warmth from above. The hesitation of each breath and falling bead feels as though it were a Morton Feldman piece condensed to three minutes.”
In 2010, Jóhann collaborated with the experimental filmmaker Bill Morrison on The Miners Hymns (2011), a film and accompanying composition for brass band, pipe organ and electronics which "celebrates social, cultural, and political aspects of the extinct industry, and the strong regional tradition of colliery brass bands". The piece had a live premiere in Durham Cathedral in July 2010 and was released on CD and DVD in May 2011. The album was called, "A gorgeous brass-based requiem for northeast England's former mining community" by the BBC.
Jóhann has won awards for his film music at the Rhode Island International Film Festival, the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards and the Sapporo International Short Film Festival. His numerous film scores include The Good Life (Eva Mulvad, DK 2010), Varmints (Marc Craste, UK 2008) and For Ellen (So Yong Kim, US 2012). Jóhann is an accomplished composer for contemporary dance and theater, and his collaborations with the internationally renowned choreographer and dancer Erna Omarsdottir, IBM 1401, A User's Manual (2002), and Mysteries of Love (2005), have been performed widely across Europe.
He is a co-founder of Kitchen Motors, an art organization/think tank/record label which specializes in initiating collaborations, promoting concerts and exhibitions, performances, chamber operas, producing films, books and radio shows based on the ideals of experimentation, collaboration and the search for new art forms.
Jóhann founded Apparat Organ Quartet in 1999, which has released two well-received albums since 2002 and has gained acclaim for their live performances in Europe, America and Japan. Jóhann has also produced and written music with Marc Almond (Stranger Things album), Barry Adamson and Pan Sonic, The Hafler Trio, Jaki Liebezeit, Stephen O'Malley, Peter Rehberg, Stilluppsteypa, and others.
Jóhann has performed in venues all over the world with his ensemble, including the Paris Centre Pompidou, London's Barbican Centre, Brussels' Palais des Beaux Arts, and the Rudolfinum in Prague. <b/>

Jóhann Jóhannsson & Evil Madness, MED 2012, KIBLA 
Photo: Boštjan Lah, archive KID KIBLA    

More:
 http://johannjohannsson.com/  
www.kibla.org/festivali/med/2012/arhiv/

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