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summer 2022:
collaboration with Sigurlaug Thorarensen on the score for “Comeback” [working title], feature film by Janin Halisch.
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winter 2021/2022:
composing and recording the score for “Power of Love” (StickUp Filmproduktion, RBB & Arte), the second feature film of my dear brother Jonas Rothlaender
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summer/autumn 2021:
Research collaboration with Erik DeLuca on his art project ‘Homeland’, exhibited at Kling& Bang, Reykjavík, August 21st - October 3rd, 2021.
Erik writes: “This project is about immigration policy, transnational migration, the politics of forgetting, Jewish diaspora, and Holocaust education. Most importantly, this project has been my vessel to desire unknowable stories related to my identity.
‘We were told to forget; and we forgot quicker than anybody ever could imagine.’ – Hannah Arendt”
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may 2021:
BSÍ debut album released
‘Sometimes depressed ... but always antifascist’.
Concerts and tour coming up.
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september 202:
Vestur í bláinn
album release & exhibition
juliuspollux.bandcamp.com
concert stream:
https://youtu.be/TjzvBdPeGU8
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Working on a score, together with Sigurlaug Thorarensen, for Hilke Rönnfeldt’s short movie ‘Fence’.
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summer 2020:
Improvised performance with Ægir Sindri Bjarnason
at Raflost X RASK Festival in Reykjavík.
You can hear/watch Music for brain surgeons HERE
compositions (selection)
Vil - Hvor drømmene
in collaboration with Lovis Bechmann
ListenRecords (Berlin), 2020
Satomis Geheimnis
Radio play - musical score
director: Jonas Rothlaender
SWR2 (Germany), 2018
A minor unknown
Interactive sound installation
Exhibition Lots of tiny people
Gerðarsafn, Iceland, 2019
Practical Latvian
Music for a dance performance
choreography: Klāvs Liepiņš, 2018
Wet Cement
Short movie - musical score
director: Klāvs Liepiņš, 2017
band projects
BSÍ
– Lo-fi krútt popp pönk, traffic & riot & feminism,
with Sigurlaug Thorarensen
Vil
– Gloomy ambient pop, long-distance collaboration in between Denmark and Iceland,
with Lovis Bechmann
Laura Secord
– More Agitated Icelandic Outsider Rock Poetry,
with Alison MacNeil, Erik DeLuca & Ægir Sindri Bjarnason
Stormy Daniels
– Punk band, teenage dreams! takk fyrir ekkert!
with Salvör Gullbrá, Óðinn Dagur Bjarnason & Ægir Sindri Bjarnason
Mount Theodore
– A journal in songs, a journey with guests, a diary of bedroom-recorded songs
about
Julius
Pollux Rothlaender
(*1988, Lübeck/Germany) is a musician and
composer based in Iceland, mainland Europe and elsewhere. Alongside his solo and band projects he also works on music for installations, performances, film and radio.
Over the last years Julius Pollux has been diving into experiments that combine music
and spoken word, exploring other elements of the human voice, of expression and
contemplation within music.
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