Sigur Rós livestreaming 24-hour Route One project featuring new music
Sigur Rós are livestreaming their ambitious new Route One project: a 24-hour "Slow TV" event featuring new music.
The project was announced yesterday and unveiled at 10pm BST, and is being broadcast on YouTube as well as Iceland's RÚV 2 channel.
The stream follows Iceland's Route 1, a 1332km ring road around the nation's coastline. The accompanying sounds are being created by generative music software. A press release explains: "The individual musical elements of unreleased song, and current Sigur Rós festival set opener, 'Óveður', are seeded through the evolving music app Bronze, to create a unique ephemeral sonic experience."
“In a day and age of instant gratification and everything moving so fast, we wanted to do the exact opposite,” says Sigur Rós’ Jónsi Birgisson. “Slow TV is counter-active to the world we live in, in that it happens in real time and real slow.”
Watch Route One below.
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