[Contest] Jonsi’s Spectacular Live Show + CD Giveaway

Jonsi, singer from Icelandic group Sigur Ros, crafts fantastic melodies when traversing musical landscapes solo. Jonsi was recently featured on a really interesting episode of NPR’s All Tech Considered discussing the trend of high-tech concerts. Jonsi’s anthemic solo compositions are better suited for smaller theaters but that doesn’t mean his live performances are any smaller in spectacle, besides anyone who’s been to a Sigur Ros concert knows they don’t do “small” very well. However, his concerts don’t use a ton of digital screens and laser lights but projectors and custom-built backdrops one might see at an opera or musical.

Think of what they’re doing as the opposite of a movie soundtrack. In Hollywood, a musician is usually brought in to compose for scenes that have already been shot. In this case, 59 Productions was presented the songs and asked to create a VISUAL soundtrack.

The company’s Mark Grimmer says it’s kind of a cross between an art installation, a live gig and a film. Grimmer helped come up with animated sequences of wolves chasing deer across a forest; a fire that burns through the set; and a climactic, violent thunderstorm that appears to consume the band during the finale.

But none of these scenes are happening on a screen.

They’re all projected onto the walls, the objects on stage, even the musicians.