Dark Music Days at PAC NYC

Enjoy a compelling performance at the Perelman Performing Art Center with Yunge Eylands Varpcast Netwerkið

Yunge Eylands Varpcast Netwerkið is a 60-minute live radio play that weaves together multilingual songs, stories, music, and archives. Much like the radio listening experience, the piece toggles between endearingly local and world-historical episodes.

The work is devised and performed by Ensemble Adapter, Keir GoGwilt, and Celeste Oram, multi-instrumentalists who are islanders. Scanning between Iceland, Scotland, Aotearoa/New Zealand, Java, Manhattan, and beyond, their personal reflections tune into broader sagas of island geopolitics: migration, nation-building, imperialism, and the negotiation of personal and political self-determination in a globally interdependent world. 

Also onstage are quirky DIY radios, assembled from salvaged materials to bypass the racket of global manufacturing and resource extraction fuelled by consumer electronics. These radios are the quartet's musical and conversation partners. They bring to life radio archives and add the sounds of electromagnetism to zany arrangements of Scottish, Icelandic, and New Zealand folk tunes, Sicilian opera, eschatological love songs, and lullabies. The overall vibe is one of joyful collective music-making and playful conversation between listeners and radio, past and present.

Yunge Eylands Varpcast Netwerkið

The performance is free and will be first come, first serve at the door.

Dark Music Days Festival

The Dark Music Days Festival 2024 (Icelandic: Myrkir músíkdagar) will be held from January 24 to 26, 2025. This is the perfect time of year to listen to contemplative and contemporary music.

Dark Music Days is an Icelandic festival held annually in Reykjavík, Iceland. Established by the Society of Icelandic Composers in 1980, the festival emphasizes premiering new and often experimental pieces reflecting contemporary music's ever-growing diversity and creativity.

Concert venues include Harpa, Mengi, Salurinn Kópavogur, Norræna húsið, and Laugarneskirkja Church.

Dark Music Days