Hildur Gudnadottir

Singing is something that I have done all my life, but what I did on my first two records was to hide…

— Hildur Gudnadottir

There's a lot of electronic surround-sound music, and I've done a lot of work where I write music for other people to…

— Hildur Gudnadottir

Music is a very physical experience, and I need to understand things physically to be able to create the narrative for them.

— Hildur Gudnadottir

Joker' is, of course, a character of my generation grew up with, and it's a character you know really well and have…

— Hildur Gudnadottir

There are a lot of classical musicians in my family, so I grew up with that being kind of normal.

— Hildur Gudnadottir

There's been a tendency to think that TV music has to be cheap and fast and for films it has to be…

— Hildur Gudnadottir

I don't really like to work with a large team and assistants, because then I lose so much time explaining things, which…

— Hildur Gudnadottir

Because in both TV and film every story under the sun is being told, and so music shouldn't be restricted to have…

— Hildur Gudnadottir

I'm Icelandic. We're all so dramatic.

— Hildur Gudnadottir

You know, I don't like talking about music very much. I have quite the hard time explaining myself.

— Hildur Gudnadottir

I think as you have a more diverse group of people working in the industry, you automatically have more diverse storytelling. That's…

— Hildur Gudnadottir

I view music mostly as communication, so when I record, I'm communicating to the listener in the future.

— Hildur Gudnadottir

It's like an electroacoustic, surround-sound cello gamba. It embodies everything that fascinates me the most - acoustics, playing instruments, digital processing, movement…

— Hildur Gudnadottir

Chase scenes normally just have to be exciting and, you know, not a lot of emotion you need to go through. It's…

— Hildur Gudnadottir

I come home from work and I have a six-year-old I have to cook for, so to be completely honest with you…

— Hildur Gudnadottir

My solo music started as a way to really look inwards, and to spend time completely by myself with an instrument, without…

— Hildur Gudnadottir

My mother was an opera singer and my father is a clarinet player, composer and conductor.

— Hildur Gudnadottir

A lot of my music is kind of contemplative, and somehow that always tends to tilt on the darker side. My inner…

— Hildur Gudnadottir