“Performing with múm is all about the energy we get from each other, which is such a powerful thing.” Living in Berlin for the most part since 2003, Hildur works as a producer, composer, singer and a cellist. “I grew up with those guys and we’ve been playing together since I was 15,” she says, enthusiastically. As a teenager she began playing in a band that would become globally known as múm. ![]() The Berlin-based musician initially started experimenting with sound in her hometown of Hafnarfjordur, Iceland with her musician parents. “One of the most important aspects for me in music is curiosity.” “I envision a sound and it’s always about the quest for how to find it,” she adds. It has four strings on top and four on the bottom, a pickup, and a speaker at the back-the resonance of strings, the body and then feedback make such an interesting sound because it’s very much alive, you know?” Designed and built by friends and fellow musicians, each of Hildur’s instruments demonstrate her passion to discover a new acoustic element to what she plays. “The cello is the basic interface for the instrument. “Even though I’m not an instrument builder, I’m really interested in how the build effects the acoustics,” she says, picking up one of her reimagined cellos. ![]() With open sides, no fully-formed body or f-holes, it’s the very absence of material that gives Hildur the type of sound she’s striving to hear. But that’s exactly how they should appear. To the unenlightened eye they appear to be cellos in the making-fragmentary, and incomplete, yet to be encased in their wooden body armor. Behind her, three instruments stand majestically like sculptures. Hildur Guðnadóttir is sitting cross-legged in front of her piano.
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