“Creating art out of something so horrible like the end of the world, I could make it sound like a high-pitched note or like [an explosion] or like a crazy drone, but I also like making it somehow beautiful.”
Sóley Stefánsdóttir is nominated by Iceland for the 2022 Nordic Council Music Prize for the album Mother Melancholia (2021).
Meet this year’s nominees in conversation with podcast host Andrew Mellor and hear excerpts from the nominated works. Listen to all the episodes in the series on your preferred podcast app.
Read more about the prize and the nominees on norden.org/musicprize
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