b. 1988 in Reykjavík, Iceland
Lives and works in Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Contact
berguranderson@proton.me
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Bio
Bergur Anderson is a composer and sound artist based in Rotterdam. His practice focuses on polyphonic storytelling and the transitory qualities of sound through experimental music-making, sound publications, installations and voice-based art works.
Recent releases include “Live at Grand Hospice” (digital, 2025), made with Diana Duta; “Unisong” (LP, 2024); and “come, Memory: fieldwork” (cassette, 2023), a collaborative cassette made with visual artist and partner Katrina Niebergal. He's recently exhibited at an other world, puntWG, The Pole (NL), Harbinger, Hamraborg Festival and Kling og Bang (IS); played at Mengi (IS), Occii, Roodkapje, Kiosk, Rib (NL), De Nor, Het Bos, Grand Hospice (BE); and presented works on BBC Radio 3, NTS, Kiosk Radio, Palanga Street Radio, Radiophrenia and Radio TNP. Bergur performs and makes art pop/cosmic folk music under the name Bergmál, and publishes sound journal/music research mixes Listeningcraft.
Next to his own practice, Bergur collaborates with artists to enhance the role sound plays in their practices — as a composer, recordist, instrumentalist, performer, sound designer, and mixing/mastering engineer. Recent projects include composing the film score for “Lowland Melodies: A Polder Western” by Pilar Mata Dupont and Erika Roux; and composing music for Liza Prins and Marie-Ilse Bourlanges' opera-performance “Flax, Baby! Flax!”
Education
2015 — 2017 MA Master Artistic Research course at Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
2008 — 2011 BA Fine Arts, Iceland University of the Arts, Reykjavík
Publications
2024 Unisong, vinyl record released on Futura Resistenza, edition of 200
2022 Around the Songster's Commune, cassette and riso-printed booklet, released on Futura Resistenza, edition of 100
2022 Uu-ee-uu / Noo-me, 7 inch lathe-cut vinyl record and riso-printed cover, edition of 5
2021 Night Time Transmissions, vinyl record released on Futura Resistenza, edition of 150
2021 Poems — with Katrina Niebergal, self-published artist book, edition of 30, 110 pages
2019 Berghaim - Songs from the young Earth, musical radio drama presented on Dr. Klangendum, Concertzender radio, Utrecht
Selected activities
2025
Hamraborg Festival, Iceland
come, Memory: fieldwork broadcast on Radiophrenia festival, Glasgow
Performance at Het Bos, Antwerp
The Patron Saint of Beekeepers, group show at puntWG, Amsterdam
2024
Performance at Roodkapje, Rotterdam
Performance at Occii, Amsterdam
Performance at mur mur, Amsterdam
Performance at Mengi, Reykjavik
Unisong album release show, WET, Rotterdam
come, Memory: fieldwork live presentation at WORM, Rotterdam
2023
Margt Smátt, group show at Harbinger, Reykjavík
Dreams, group show at an other world, Rotterdam
It has to do with the great mystery, mix made with Katrina Niebergal broadcast on Radio TNP, Amsterdam
Duo performance with Diana Duta, Grand Hospice, Brussels
Vocal workshop with Liza Prins for Artistic Research Knitting Club, UvA, Amsterdam
Around the Songster's Commune broadcast on Radiophrenia festival, Glasgow
Night Time Healer performs "Evening Healing Time" contributed to The World Disintegrates Around Me, an event by Shimmer and Cookies, Rotterdam
Workshop on collective songwriting, Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam
2022
Collected Earworms, solo exhibition, Kling & Bang, Reykjavík
Performance at De Nor, Antwerp
Vocal workshop, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
WORM sound studio, residency with Katrina Niebergal, Rotterdam
2021
Ten of Moods, duo show with Á. Birna Björnsdóttir, The Pole, Rotterdam
Night Time Transmissions album release performances, Roodkapje and Peach, Rotterdam
Verpejos, residency, with Katrina Niebergal, Lithuania
2019 — 2021 co-founding member and facilitator of Singing Club of Rotterdam
2017 — 2021 co-founding member and organizer of artist initiative project space at7
2020
Two performances for four voices, Rib, Rotterdam
Language of Sound — sound-based workshop with Sigrún Gyða Sveinsdóttir, Sandberg Insitute, Amsterdam
Can you hear The Hum tonight?, performance at Kaunas Artists House, Kaunas, Lithuania
Nida art colony, residency, Lithuania
2019
The one and only body of The Hum and Lego Flamb, solo exhibition, Harbinger, Reykjavík
I need a rhythm, group show at roject space at7, Amsterdam
Motto's journey, 10 episode research mix series, broadcasted on Palanga Street Radio, Vilnius