As you may know, in the niður/noise/szum project, field recordings are just one form of documenting Iceland’s sound. Apart from that, I talk to its inhabitants, mainly artists, but not only. Recently I had the opportunity to talk about the sounds of Iceland with John Snorri Sigurjónsson, climber, the first Icelandic conqueror of K2, Lhotse and Broad Peak. John, right now, is once again trying to get K2 in the winter – this has not been achieved by anyone in history. We talked about the wind, the differences in how it sounds in the Himalayas and in Iceland. “It is similar, but in the high mountains it is much colder and the wind screams at you,” said Snorri. “For me, the sound of Iceland is DIVERSITY. But if I were to take you to where my sound is, it would probably be a glacier. For example, Sólheimajökull – he added.
