Dagsetning
21. nóvember 2026
Staðsetning
Hafnar.haus Tryggvata 17
Deild
Tónlistardeild
Missing Frequencies
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Sylwia Bylica, útskriftarnemi í NAIP við tónlistardeild Listaháskóla Íslands, flytur útskriftarverk sitt, Missing Frequencies, í Hafnar.haus laugardaginn 21. nóvember. Verkið verður flutt tvisvar, kl. 16:00 og kl. 20:00

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Missing Frequencies er hljóðgjörningur þar sem Sylwia býður áheyrendum til sameiginlegrar en um leið náinnar hlustunar. Verkið byggir á vettvangsupptökum sem hún safnaði á Íslandi og í Póllandi á árunum 2025–2026 og á rætur í persónulegum missi. Hlustunin beinist bæði út á við og inn á við og tengist tilfinningum, stöðum og minningum.

Sylwia vinnur verkið í samstarfi við annað tónlistarfólk þar sem saman skoða þau hvernig hljóðheimar og nýjar aðstæður til hlustunar geta breytt skynjun okkar og athygli.

Á hvað hlustum við þegar við stígum inn í aðra vídd hlustunar?

Aðgangur er ókeypis og öll hjartanlega velkomin.

Flytjendur

Dmitri Drobko, selló
Eydís Kvaran, fiðla
Sylwia Bylica, rödd, hlutir og upptökur

 

Sylwia Bylica, NAIP MMus

After two decades of fascination with Iceland’s music and nature, Sylwia Bylica relocated from Poland to pursue the NAIP programme at the Iceland University of the Arts, exploring artistic creation within the country, from the inside out. This also meant taking on the challenge of a career change – pivoting from Dutch studies, with a joint MA from the University of Wrocław and Antwerp University, to audiovisual arts.
Bylica was previously a member of the Warsaw-based alternative family trio Hepcolgum, whose music was all about emotion, low-tuned guitars, and a girlish yet mature voice resonating with the slow pulse of the drums. Taking on the role of singer-songwriter and occasional bass player, she recorded two EPs with the band in 2018 and 2023.
During her NAIP studies, Bylica has focused on field recordings, vocal exploration, video creation, creative writing, as well as theorisation around sound studies and embodied practices. In addition, she is currently studying Icelandic at the University of Iceland to familiarise herself with Icelandic culture from a language perspective.
“Missing Frequencies” is a hybrid sound performance by Sylwia Bylica that works as an invitation to a collective, yet intimate listening session that connects to emotions, places and memories. Through the event, Bylica transforms her solitary experience into a gathering that oscillates between the external and internal – listening both outward and inward.
Drawing on field recordings collected in Iceland and Poland (2025-2026), Bylica embarks on a sonic journey rooted in personal loss, through different modes of listening, leaving an open-ended resolution. The piece is grounded in her practice of embodied field recordings. This process involves attuning to the environment through listening and movement as well as experiencing and shaping sound through more-than-human tools, such as headphones and field recorders.
The metaphor of “Missing Frequencies” frames an inquiry into transformation as a living force and extends that inquiry into the development of an artistic method. The constant balancing of absence and presence and the blending of soundscapes generates an alternative reality, in which the sound becomes a driving force for experimenting with new perspectives.

Working in collaboration with musicians, Bylica explores embodied listening and performance practice, examining how soundscapes and altered scenarios for listening open up a shift in perception and focus. In placing her personal sonic material before the audience, she observes how it detaches from its origin and takes on a life of its own, hoping to let that sonic experience leak into their everyday life.

What do we listen to,
when we enter a different dimension of listening?