Raindamage is the fruit of artistic collaboration, a kind of a micro lab exploring the creative possibilities and processes involved in the making of an album. It is an attempt to unpack the ‘tacit processes of musical collaboration’ and immediately raises the question: how do you crack them open in order to gain a further insight, which in return can lead to new ways of doing?

At the heart of Raindamage are the most valuable systems of all: the collective and the collaborative. The Raindamage narratives are of course as many as the participants. In my instance, the continual tossing of the creative ball between my generous friend and colleague Valgeir Sigur›sson and myself, led to the creation of V A R P, an installation room which invites you into the nesting site of Raindamage: a space for ecological navigation. V A R P had its premiere already in November 2016 in Sweden, before the album release. This only goes to show the fast changing work paradigm here at the cusp of the 21st century. An unreleased album had already become a new work.

Artist: Nordic Affect

Tracks:

Valgeir Sigurðsson
1. Raindamage

Úlfur Hansson
2. Þýð

Hlynur Aðils Vilmarsson
3. noa::ems

Valgeir Sigurðsson
4. Antigravity

Hlynur Aðils Vilmarsson
5. [:n:]

Úlfur Hansson
6. Skin continuum