Ís – sonic traces of melting, memory, and isolation from Skagaströnd, Iceland
Ís is a solo album by Noah Dean Jordan, created during an artist residency in Skagaströnd, a remote coastal village in northern Iceland. In dialogue with a 17-tone keyboard, the album is Composed with a basis of samples from found objects, bones, metal, and the wind, ice, and geothermal vents—the album explores themes of impermanence, climate, and internal stillness. Each piece is an acoustic sketch of a frozen world in slow transformation, capturing the delicate tension between form and decay. Ís is less a collection of compositions than a series of sonic imprints—ephemeral and elemental, echoing with the stark beauty and solitude of the Icelandic landscape.
The sound objects were developed in collaboration with Israeli artist Hadar Mitz, whose sculptural interventions became the basis for both the audio and visual dimensions of the project. Alongside the album, a series of video works were created—each featuring alternate sound compositions made from the same source materials. While the album emphasizes meditative stillness, the videos present a more cinematic and textural encounter with the sounds. These video pieces have been exhibited in galleries in Israel, Germany, and France, offering a parallel lens through which to experience the frozen fragility and layered resonance of Ís.
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