Antarctic Return
Did you study this instrument to write for it ?
I did, you know, just what you do, you go on Google and you just order all the CDs you can find in the world, which actually aren’t that many. And I found out very quickly that the person that was almost on her own reviving that instrument - it almost wasn’t being used anymore - it’s a Japanese woman who’s sort of my age, called Mayumi Miyata.
It was tricky because when I sat down and it was of course, "Okay, now I’m doing a Japanese film score, okay..." And then part of me doesn’t like that sort of stuff because coming from Iceland I’ve always been treated as this exotic elf, which I never really got, but there you go... And I sort of felt that maybe you’ve got countries in the world like the States and Great Britain and France and Germany...
