Flash Forward
The song and video are about trusting your intuition over logic, even when you can't see what's coming.
Filmed during a full moon, explores the tension between opposites, depicted through two contrasting characters.
Abundance
reflects the prophecy of Völva, a tenth-century seeress known as Völuspá. This poem was recounted by the prophetess as she described the creation of the universe. “[…]fate of the world from its creation to its final destruction[1]” where “cyclical development that begins with the light and harmony of the earliest age, proceeds through a series of events towards a fragmented and inharmonious present, reaches its traumatic climax in the great global catastrophe of the future, Ragnarǫk, and concludes with the creation of a new and better world, as full of light and harmony as the world described in the beginning of the poem[2]”. This emblematic story bears resemblance to Abundance.
[1] Acker, Paul, and Carolyne Larrington, eds. The Poetic Edda: Essays on Old Norse Mythology, Taylor & Francis Group, 2002, p. 36, ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/umontreal-ebooks/detail.action?docID=4218242.
[2] Ibid.
During the Viking age, gods would seek counsel in order to know the future, “and yet in order to know the future, he must ask a human, in fact a dead human, and specifically a woman. Think about that, the power she must have, that even the lord of gods must seek her counsel”. A medicine person, or shamanic sage, Sorcery, or Sorceresses, had supposedly ended during the Viking age, but in fact it has survived through the ages and, through cultural inheritance, still lives with us.
This song and video are about ancestors speaking through nature, with messages we might not want to hear. Intuitive magnetism. Sharp edges of truth and clarity. Postcard lyrics, transformation through death and rebirth, “living sea, sky rages blissfully”. Song+lyrics by Tyr Jami, produced by Blnkng Objks (NYC), video styled+filmed in Iceland by Jasa Baka, video edited and audio-reacted by Tyr Jami (Montréal)
Live Medley
Sampled voice of great-grandmother Ingibjörg Gudmundsdóttir (1891-1994) opens into 'What is B4 You' (Icelandic folksong guitar loops with original lyrics), followed by an improvised cello section with effects over real-time loops—the introductory movement to 'Sorcery,' with audio-reactive laser lights.
August 21st, 2025, Brooklyn, NYC