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Isolation Room - Headphone Surround Binaural mix #1 - for slow listening in the lockdown.
Jónsi & Alex Somers - ‘Riceboy Sleeps’ + 'All Animals’ live Recorded live at Sydney Opera House with Sydney International Orchestra & Choir

The 10th anniversary concert of the landmark ambient album from Sigur Rós frontman Jónsi and film composer Alex Somers, for the first time in a unique spatial audio mix, designed for headphone listening, and exclusive to the Isolation Room. Recorded at Vivid Festival’s world premiere, June 11, 2019.

Riceboy Sleeps at Sydney Opera House represents the first time the album was performed in its entirety with orchestra and choir, in a performance to mark the release’s tenth anniversary. Orchestral arrangements were by David Handler, and featured many non-traditional sound sources, including whirly tubes, bags of marbles and broken glass. An additional programme of material from Jónsi & Alex’s only other release, All Animals, was also performed with arrangements by London Contemporary Orchestra’s Robert Ames, who conducted the orchestra and choir.

Programme (90 mins):
All Animals:
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three

Riceboy Sleeps:
Happiness
Atlas Song
Indian Summer
Stokkseyri
Boy 1904
All the Big Trees
Daníell in the Sea
Howl
Sleeping Giant

A response to the coronavirus crisis from longtime Sigur Rós co-manager John Best and sound designer David Sheppard, Isolation Room is a community space for artists around the world to share live or pre-recorded work from quarantine, all mixed in binaural audio for maximum listening experience. Isolation Room is an extension of John and David’s work together presenting surround installation work, as LOSS / GAIN, with the intention of presenting state-of-the-art high-end audio experiences to people locally, reducing the impact of artist and audience travel.

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