From its first sounds of five bass flautists screaming, “as strong as possible”, into their instruments, it is clear that VÍDDIR is not a light-hearted leap into a new life. It is a black night of a piece. An abyss, into which Gísladóttir has dived and reached deeply. An unbroken hour in length, it returns again and again to its own dark light.
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The first dimension is space, expressed through the staging of the work. The nine flutes are arranged in a silver halo around the audience: a gleaming event horizon beyond which sounds are no longer under the control of the players but are surrendered to the acoustics of the space. In the centre, the two bassists form a dense, occasionally explosive nucleus alongside the three percussionists, whose instruments are dominated by more metal circles: Chinese opera gongs, crotales, temple bowls and more. The whole arrangement is an expansion of these: a giant circular instrument whose sounds collapse in from its edge to its middle before being reflected, inexorably, back out and beyond.

Quotes from Tim Rutherford-Johnson, "Deep Dimensions", on Dacapo Records website