Áki Ásgeirsson (born 1975) is an Icelandic

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and

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. He has written instrumental music and music for instruments and computer. Ásgeirsson was born in

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. He studied at the Keflavík Music School, the

Reykjavík College of Music The Reykjavík College of Music () is an Icelandic gymnasium (junior college) and music conservatory founded in 2017. It was created by the merger of the graduate levels of (also known as Reykjavík College of Music) and (Conservatory of the Ic ...

and the Royal Conservatory in

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and currently lives in Reykjavík. His music has been performed by the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and musicians such as Michael Manion and the Norwegian POING ensemble. His music has been performed in China, Russia, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, The Netherlands, Germany and various places in the United States of America. Áki has been active as a

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, mostly with experimental improvisation ensembles. He developed the SensorTrumpet, an electronic trumpet with add-ons to interact with a computer.Trompet
bjarmaland.net Software projects include GeMusE, a realtime interactive notation rendering program. It eliminates the use of paper in music performance, replacing it with a VGA monitor (LCD or a video projector), which allows the performer to interact instantly with the score. Áki is a co-founder of

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, S.l.a.t.u.r. (an Icelandic composers' group), Saeborg (an improvisation unit), Kokteilsosa (a concert series) and other bands and institutions. Áki's daughter

Jófríður Ákadóttir Jófríður Ákadóttir (born 4 August 1994) is an Icelandic singer, songwriter, composer and multi-instrumentalist known as JFDR and is a founding member of the musical groups Samaris (band), Samaris and Pascal Pinon (band), Pascal Pinon. She h ...

is also a musician.

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S.l.a.t.u.r.

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