Son of Gunnar, Ton of Shel

Son of Gunnar, Ton of Shel is the duo of Aram Shelton and Steini Gunnarson. Their music, which is largely improvised, is held together by a shared sense of commitment to long forms and instinctive timing. Using prepared guitar, wind instruments and live sample-based processing via PD and MSP, they create thick multilayered textural music that is guided by their expressive melodicism.

Gudmundur Steinn Gunnarsson was born in Reykjavik, Iceland in 1982. Beginning with music studies at the age of seven, he most recently studied composition with Alvin Curran, Fred Frith and Annie Gosfield at Mills College. In 2005 he graduated from The Iceland Academy of Arts where he studied with Úlfar Haraldsson and Hilmar Þórðarson as well as performed with many including Hilmar Jensson. In addition he has learned from Tristan Murail, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Clarence Barlow.

• Aram Shelton - alto saxophone, bass clarinet, trumpet, electronics
• Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson - electronics, prepared guitar