Ragnar Árni Ólafsson
guitarist and composer
Ragnar Árni Ólafsson is a composer and guitarist from Reykjavík, Iceland, working both there and abroad in various contexts. He's an avid collaborator, scorer, improviser, deviser, and performer of notated, improvised, videoed, electronic musics. Among his upcoming projects are a release featuring compositions based on AI text generators’ hallucinatory descriptions of music, interpreted by himself, Áslaug Magnúsdóttir (IS/DK) and Gunnar Gunnsteinsson (IS), and a television style web series produced with longtime collaborator Luke Deane (UK/NL) featuring improvisations, absurdist comedy and video art. He is currently working on his first release of solo compositions and improvisations.
contact: ragnararni at pm dot me
portrait by Sam Walton
Next concerts
27/10/2024 - WORM, Rotterdam (NL)Electric Umbrella #20: Olafsson & Hijmans Duo with Wiek Hijmans
09/11/2024 - Cashmere Radio, Berlin (DE)
solo set on the entertainment, presented by Nina Guo
29/11/2024 - Punktum, Prague (CZ)
duo imrovisation as surf structures with Jakub Šulík
25+26/01/2025 - Dark Music Days, Reykjavík (IS)
new video work with Luke Deane, public premiere at the DMD Short Film Program
Past concerts
29/08/2024 - Hamraborg Festival, Kópavogur (IS)ensemble player in Chamber Music IV by Pétur Eggerts
27/08/2024 - Mengi, Reykjavík (IS)
solo show endurlýsing, double bill with Gunnar Gunnsteinsson
6-9/12/2023 - Gunnar Gunnsteinsson - a janitor's manifesto, 2023 BE-NL Tour:
6/12/2023 de Appel, Amsterdam (NL)
7/12/2023 Batavierhuis, Rotterdam (NL)
8/12/2023 Au Kalme, Brussels (BE)
9/12/2023 Het Bos, Antwerpen (BE)
23/11/2023 - hcmf// Huddersfield (UK)
Nick Roth + Ragnar Árni Ólafsson, Huddersfield Art Gallery
18/11/2023 - hcmf// Huddersfield (UK)
AT THE FIRST SOUND, THE WHOLE WORLD FREEZES, Huddersfield Art Gallery
02/11/2023 - Mengi, Reykjavík (IS)
Ensemble Adapter & FRIENDS
29/04/2023 - Varia, Rotterdam (NL)
Extratonal Infrastructure // duo with Luke Deane
previous concerts predate the creation of this webpage and thus are omitted