Reykjavík, Iceland
Musician, graphic designer (print & media design).
Skynbrögð
If you use the code, please consider writing a short Bandcamp review/comment. "Til eru fræ" is my first release with normal singing. Just my voice, unaltered. The song itself is old. The lyrics are by Davíð Stefánsson and it's a poem built around the idea of unfulfillment: potential that never arrives. Seeds condemned to fall into earth and never become flowers. Ships that never find land. Hope that has lost its wings. The melody is by Hungarian composer Elemér Szentirmay. It was originally performed in Icelandic by Haukur Morthen in 1954. It has lived in the Icelandic consciousness ever since, it's one of those songs that feels like it has always existed. I remember loving it ever since I was a kid, in fact I was quite shaken up when I discovered that the song was not Icelandic, because it was always one of my favourite Icelandic songs. This is a pretty basic cover. Just the song, with my regular voice, just over three minutes. A classic with a Skynbrögð twist. The second track takes the same performance and pulls it apart... stretched, layered, submerged in additional synths and processing until the song dissolves into something closer to atmosphere than melody. The words are still there, somewhere underneath, unfulfilled.
Released: 5/21/2026
Old school Skynbrögð. One track. Chants, growls, and throat singing woven through clean and distorted electric guitars that pull against and toward each other across the full length of the piece. Vinyl surface noise runs throughout, a deliberate return to an older Skynbrögð sound. Lush synthesizers hold the low end and the space between. The theme is ancestral and elemental: calling spirits and fairies from beyond to guide a journey through the universe. These are ancient, natural forces that move freely across time and space, and the music follows their lead. I did not write this music. It wrote itself.
Released: 5/15/2026
Tómhyggja (e. Nihilism) is a single, unbroken piece of dark ambient music. The title is Icelandic for nihilism and tómhyggja literally translates to "empty-belief" from tóm (empty) and hyggja (belief, thought, conviction). It is not a dramatic word… it simply names a condition: the state of holding nothing. Nihilism has never recovered from its misreading. It is treated as a mood, a phase, a provocation and as something worn rather than reached. The popular imagination places the nihilist in opposition to the world, like shaking a fist at a God they claim not to believe in, their very rage a contradiction. But this is not nihilism. This is grief dressed in borrowed clothes. True nihilism is not a confrontation with meaninglessness. It is a reconciliation with it. Whether that reads as peace or desolation is not a question the album answers. That, too, feels honest.
Released: 5/12/2026
Dvali is the complete suppression of activity over long periods of time for conservation of energy. It is the quiet approaching of stillness, sustained across intervals too long to be experienced as a duration. Time floats away, as if it had never been here. There is no resistance. There is no tension held against the cold. Nothing is waiting to be resumed. A complete withdrawal from the very premise of wakefulness, shedding processes until what remains cannot be called presence. Energy is preserved through the abolition of need. To listen is to consent to an experience that resists consciousness.
Released: 4/3/2026
On Andlit á glugga, we're leaning into a close and night-bound kind of introspection... the uneasy clarity of seeing yourself reflected in dark glass while the world outside stays unreachable. The album sits gently in an overlap between interior and exterior where perception feels slightly distorted and emotion becomes part of the texture. This release reunites me with my cousin, Andrés Stenberg, my previous collaborator on Heilun and Listfengi, a guitarist and soundmaker with a strong instinct for shaping space. He doesn’t treat guitar as a “lead” instrument here. It’s atmosphere, pressure, and detail: slow chords that bloom and sag, harmonics that shimmer like cold light, and tones that feel carved into the air rather than played on top of it. His sound design work is an integral part of the sonic architecture of the album. There is constant tension between softness and erosion. Some passages open into warmth and calm; others roughen into grain, shadow, and pressure...
Released: 2/5/2026
This album was created entirely using my own self-developed VST plugins. Over the past two days, I've been teaching myself how to make VST plugins, using C++. I’ve been building, testing, and refining a small ecosystem of tools designed for slow movement, instability, randomness, texture, and long-form sound design. I committed to using only my own instruments and effects—embracing their quirks, limitations, and unfinished edges as part of the process. The result is an album that’s deeply intertwined with these tools. Many of the sounds are not “played” in the traditional sense, but evolved, drifted, or nudged into place over time by weird effects. When you buy the album, you also get all of the self-developed plugins used to make it, free of charge. Some of these plugins are still in beta, others are close to release, but all of them are actively developed. Buying the album means you’ll receive future updates and improvements as the plugins evolve—just like the music did during its creation. I will simply upload them to a Google Drive folder where I will keep the most recent versions.
Released: 1/26/2026
Hvaða vitleysa? is a babous, frumpy sprawl of splinters and swoops, a full-on splurgle of sound that jiggles and bumbles in unpredictable, yet predictable, waves. The track babbles with frumpish synths, wobble-clatters, and swooshing drizzles of glorp, forming a world where time blonks and reality flerps sideways. Every twist is a snorp, every echo a frumpaple, creating a swirl of sonic barbery that’s both delightfully unhinged and beautifully, although somewhat but not allwhat, frumpish. Happy glooping! — Obscenicus Babous Frump.
Released: 1/8/2026
Kastali is the Icelandic word for "castle". The album consists of 3 songs that unfold slowly through subtle movements. It's characterized by small shifts in tone, texture and space that take place slowly and quietly. It's minimal and built from gentle drones, with restained layers that evolve over time. It doesn't seek your attention in a grandiose way, instead it invites you to listen closely and attentively. Kastali is a soft haven you can return to again and again, to seek refuge and solitude behind the castle walls. The castle itself is ancient and quiet, its walls solid yet welcoming. Beneath its foundations lies a hidden underground lake, its still waters reflecting the muted echoes of the castle above. credits released December 29, 2025 Everything: JTS
Released: 12/29/2025
Útmáður Hugur is an ambient reinterpretation and transformation of Jölli’s song Mind Erased from his album Soul Noise. The piece was sampled, processed, and recontextualized while preserving the emotional residue of the original. I guess you could think of it as a cover. The sound is intentionally both clean and restrained. Instead of an overwhelming wall of sound, I aimed for clarity, space, and precision, allowing dense layers to exist without collapsing into noise. Everything I added besides the samples is meant to fit perfectly with the original song, so there’s no extra flair that feels out of place. I layered a lot of synth work on top of it, but always with that in mind. Interestingly, I also did the synth work for Jölli’s album Soul Noise. You can check it out here: jollijolli.bandcamp.com/album/soul-noise credits released December 23, 2025 Arrangement, instrumentation & production: JTS Sample song: Jölli Free photos from Pixabay, combined and retouched in PhotoShop by JTS using neural filters
Released: 12/23/2025
In frostbitten spaces between memory and thought, sounds become ritual. Prepare to drift through shadowed landscapes of ice and silence, each tone trembling with the weight of the unseen and the unspoken. Layers of ambient textures, drones and various sonic gestures will carve a void in your mind, inviting introspection and communion with the quiet. Stark, meditative and hauntingly... alive. credits released December 20, 2025 Composition, arrangement & production: JTS Special thanks to Jölli for letting me use samples from his work. Check out his work here: jollijolli.bandcamp.com
Released: 12/20/2025
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