C o l l a b o r a t i o n s / P r o j e c t s :

meet _the _mind _that _moves : The Danish music festival Roskilde Festival of 2006 has commissioned a cross art collaboration project conceived by Danish choreographer and dancer Matilde Mørk wherein Maria Jardardottir is contributing as main performing and composing musician. More...

s i r e n : Maria Jardardottir was commissioned to collaborate with artist, poet and publisher Alec Finlay, sound recordist Chris Watson and folk singer Clive Powell in the lyrical multimedia piece "siren"; a field recording of a sung performance accompanied by the swelling flow of high tide at dawn in a Northern English harbour, - subsequently and beautifully composed by Watson into a poetic field of sound. More...

E n d e n o r : Is a trio collaboration between German reeds and woodwind player Ove Volquartz, English guitarist Chris Sharkey and Norwegian voice musician Maria Jardardottir. The three musicians have hugely different and resourceful musical backgrounds and meet on the grounds of totally free and anarchist improvisation, also at times infused with the utilization of the Norwegian poems of Jardardottir. More...

"May All Beings Be Happy And Marie Hallager" : Maria Jardardottir was commissioned to part take as collaborative solo improvising voice musician in the Danish up and coming choreographer Matilde Mørk's piece "May all beings be happy and Marie Hallager" shown at Denmark’s main stage for contemporary dance, Dansescenen, and at Idrætsskolerne i Oure September 2005. More... Soon to come.

S o i l e d : Being Tore Hovde (guitar/electronics) and Maria Jardardottir (voice/electronics) is in essence the simplistic storytelling and melodic singer/-songwriter idea meeting filthy as well as delicate improvisation and the sound of dirty rock riffs, all original. An experimental collaboration where the traditional roles of each instrument are neatly appreciated as well as eagerly stomped on. More...

M e l a t o n i n ' s _ o r i g i n : Melatonin is a music project that sometime in 2003 started to manifest itself as the audible product with the distinct identity it has today. However, it is perhaps most correct to say that the initial ideas and foundation for the project already came about around the mid 90s when Jardardottir started to experiment with very plain tools for electro acoustic compositions and improvisations in her little home studio then situated in Oslo. More...

K a t _O n e : In 2000 Maria Jardardottir and English multimedia artist and animator Jonti Picking aka Weebl, living in two different countries, formed an exciting electronica music collaboration purely based on the internet as a communication medium. Sound files were sent back and forth via CDs in the post and instructions were transmitted through email. More...

Photos & graphics: #1 by Roskilde Festival 2006. #2 by Michele Allen. #3 by Lucy Volquartz. #4 by Thomas Petri. #5 by Birgitta Haga. #6 by Maria Jardardottir. #7 by Jonti Picking and Maria Jardardottir. All rights reserved. Respective photographers and Maria Jardardottir 2004-07 ©.