JESPER PEDERSEN

Composer

Upcoming Events / News

October 31 2026
Performance of a sound work on Opendays in Nørresundby Gl. Rådhus. More TBA

November 19 2026
Performance at Cosmic Codex, White Lotus, Reykjavik. Live video by Ella Medicus. More TBA

Past Events

October 24 2026
I’ll be having a concert in Mengi, Reykjavik in celebration of my 50 year birthday. Collaborating with Katie Buckley, Ása Ólafsdóttir and Berglind María Tómasdóttir.

October 22 2026
Live modular performance at Space Odyssey, Reykjavik as part of ‘Ambient October 2026’.

August 22 2026

I’ve been commissioned to create a new sound work called ‘Putei Sonorum’ for Lydbrøndene at the WELLS Festival. Lydbrøndene are 32 loudspeakers burried in the ground on Bent Fabricius-Bjerres Plads in Copenhagen [DK].
The piece is supported by KODA Værkskabelsespuljen and the RÚV/STEF Composers Fund.

May 24-31 2026
Visiting the Institute of Sonology in the Hague with New Media Composition students from the Iceland University of the arts on an Erasmus grant. It was amazing to see the facilities and the historical electronic music equipment still in use combined with their cutting edge computer music education and research.

We also participated in the Wave Field Synthesis Festival organized by composer and sound artist Ji Youn Kang. The spatial experience of the pieces was viceral and out of this world.

June 7 2026
Performance with Þelgap (Einar Torfi Einarsson, Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson, Jesper Pedersen) at Mengi, Reykjavik in the 2nd installment of the long duration work ‘Fellingar tímans‘. Fellingar tímans is an ongoing piece exploring microtonality and long duration with each movement being five hours in length.

For the second movement we had 3D printed microtonal recorders made dubbed ‘𝚽 flutes’ that fits on to a standard alto recorder head joint.

May 25 2025
Concert documentation of my piece ‘Hüber Düber’ for MIDI controlled pipe organ, Buchla Lightning II controller and OXI One sequencer.

May 23 2026
Performing with Jon Raskin Large Ensemble together with Pétur Eggertsson, Hilmar Jensson, Sólrún Mjöll Kjartansdóttir, John McCowen, Júlía Mogensen and Berglind María Tómasdóttir at Mengi, Reykjavik [IS].

Jon Raskin and the Iceland Ensemble performed ‘Riffing On a Ridge’ at Mengi plus a free improv.

L to R: Jon Raskin, Hilmar Jensson, John McCowen, Sólrún Mjöll Kjartansdóttir, Pétur Eggertsson, Berglind María Tómasdóttir, Júlía Mogensen, Jesper Pedersen.

April 10 2026
I just received a copy of Dennis Báthory-Kitsz‘s new book ‘Soiled Amplitudes - My Musical Composition and Notation Aesthetic in Five Seasons’. “Soiled Amplitudes explores present-day music composition, colonial and graphical music notation, and life as a rural composer.” In the book my animated notations for ‘Kesselschleicher’ and ‘Bottleneck’ are mentioned.

March 8 2026
Release of a recording of ‘Piece for Peace’ by Duo Sparkk recorded live at the ErkiTíð 2025. The was composed by Helga Björg Jóhönnu Arnardóttir and Jesper Pedersen and is out on streaming platforms. The piece is part of a series of experiments that the duo has been working on incorporating wind instruments, singing bowls and live electronics.

March 3 2026
Release of Ótal’s new album ‘Gjóta’ out on Bandcamp. I’m collaborating on this beautiful release on the track ‘Nötrugras’ (en. poison ivy) playing the synthesizer.

February 20 2026
Lecture about the sound installation ‘Vertical Resonance Fields / Vertikale Resonansfelter / Lóðrétt hljómekra’ at the lecture series Samhengi (en. Context) hosted by the Music Department of the Iceland University of the Arts.

February 5 2026
A new piece ‘Hüber Düber’ for MIDI controlled pipe organ and Buchla Lightning II to be performed at HyperOrgan - MIDI Mini Organ Festival. Hallgrímskirkja, Reykjavik, Iceland.

January 25 2026
My sound installation ‘Vertical Resonance Fields’ (Icelandic: ‘Lóðrétt hljómekra’) will be shown on the Dark Music Days Festival at the Reykjavik City Library. Opening Sunday 25/01-26 at 15:00.

There will also be performances where audience can get to experience the sound installation and participate themselves:

Sunday 25/01-26 @ 15:00-15:30
Friday 30/01-26 @ 15:00-15:30
Sunday 01/02-26 @ 14:20-14:40
Sunday 08/02-26 @ 15:00-15:30

January 9 2026
The Harp & Arp track ‘Draumur’ featured on the Syndae independent podcast on electronic music of ambient, space, new age, harmonic, traditional, progressive, and rhythmic style, not directly including electronic dance music.

syndae · syndae - episode 791

Decemper 28 2025
Star’s End Update: Review of ‘Enigmatic Resonance’ by Chuck Van Zyl and radio debut on Star’s End Ambient Radio, WXPN.

December 24 2025
CatSynth TV mentioning of Harp & Arp’s track ‘Draumur’ on the Soul of the Machine compilation.

December 21 2025
Release of ‘Enigmatic Resonance’ on Bandcamp. A two track ambient album focusing on drone. Listening Party at 7PM / 19:00 GMT online:
https://jesperpedersen.bandcamp.com/live/enigmatic-resonance-listening-party

November 1 2025
Circuit bending workshop on the Raflost Festival.
13:00 at Elliðaárstöð, Rafstöðvarvegur 14, 110 Reykjavik.

October 25 2025
Performing “Piece for Peace” with Duo Sparkk on Erkitíð, Reykjavik Arts Museum.
Helga Björg Jóhönnu Arnardóttir: Organ pipes, singing bowl and laptop.
Jesper Pedersen: Organ pipes, singing bowls and laptop.

October 17 2025
The Alan R. Pearlman Foundation proudly presents:
Soul Of the Machine: A Celebration of the Life & Legacy of ARP founder Alan R. Pearlman.
A compilation out on Projekt Records containing 36 tracks in various electronic genres curated and compiled by by Steve Roach.

Harp & Arp contributes with the track “Draumur” (Icelandic for Dream), featuring among other instruments my first synthesizer, the ARP Odyssey.

Proceeds go to the Alan R. Pearlman Foundation.

September 19-21 2025
Presenting the sound installation Vertikale resonansfelter (Vertical Resonance Fields) at the OpenDays Festival at Nørresundby Gl Rådhus, Denmark. Sound walk for kids and a workshop for creative sound students.
The sound installation was commissioned by OpenDays and supported by KODA Kultur, OpenDays and STEF.

August 30 2025
Solo modular performance at Sirakas Festival at the Copper Leg Residency outside of Tallinn, Estonia. Sirakas is a mini festival for experimental electronic music organized by the EES (Estonian Electronic Music Society) and ECCM (Estonian Centre of Contemporary Music).

August 29 2025
“School Reunion“ Introduction to Icelandic electronic music pioneer Magnús Blöndal Jóhannsson and solo modular performance at Stuudio Tallinn 1965. The event is part of the Tallinn Culture Night organized by ECCM (Estonian Centre of Contemporary Music).

July 4 2025
3 saxar og rafgaldramaður - Jesper ásamt Tuma, Óskari og Sölva /
3 saxophones and an electronic magician - Jesper, Tumi, Óskar and Sölvi. Mengi, Reykjavik

June 9-15 2025
Four concerts with Resterne af rigsfællesskabet in the Faroe Islands.

June 1 2025
Þelgap flytur Fellingar tímans, Mengi Reykjavik

Þelgap is a music-research-performance group focusing on microtonality, extended durations, hybrids of electronic and acoustic sounds, noise (noise foldings), hypersonics, directional audio, hypermusic, and sensefusion. Through their explorations they aim to redefine the concert format and create concert works that often span 5-25 hours. On this debut concert of the ensemble — which will also serve as the release concert for their first album — the first part of the work "Temporal foldings: part 1/5 (deep-resistance and flow theories)" will be performed by the founders and core members of Þelgap: Einar Torfi Einarsson and Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson.

May 3 2025
Ljómi. Electronic meditation. Sólheimakirkja.

Ljómi is an electronic duo (Jesper Pedersen and Ótal) that specializes in immersive electronic music created on modular synthesizers. Inspired by the way sound moves, they aim to take the listener on a sonic journey through exotic worlds. A sensory experience that will take you to previously uncharted paths.

April 4 2025
Harp & Arp, Mengi Reykjavik.

March 12 2025
Circuit bending workshop for adults at the Reykjavik City Library, Gerðuberg. The event was hosted by the Free Shop (Fríbúð) in collaboration with the Raflost Festival for electronic Art.

Januar 2025: Dark Music Days
On the 2025 edition of the Dark Music Days festival, my animated score “Bottleneck” was performed by students from MÍT (Menntaskóli í Tónlist).

I also performed with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra on the theremin in the piece “Balaena” by Ingibjörg Ýr Skarphéðinsdóttir.