Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson

Icelandic Experimental Music Artist

Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson (b. 1977) is an Icelandic musician and sound artist, founding member of Stilluppsteypa. Sigmarsson was born in Akureyri, Iceland and studied sound art at the Fachhochschule in Hannover, Germany from 1998 to 2003. Apart from being a member of Stilluppsteypa, he released a number of solo albums in the early 2000's on such labels as Trente Oiseaux, ERS, Helen Scarsdale Agency, Fire Inc. and Bottrop-Boy. He is also a member of 'laptop orchestra' Evil Madness. After a long break in solo career, Sigtryggur started releasing solo records again in 2013, and already published over a dozen of albums on CD/CDr, cassette and LP, mostly for the reanimated Some (2) label (used to be a sub-label on defunct Fire Inc., now operating separately). Among new albums there are also collaborations with BJNilsen, Franz Graf, Tom Smith (2) from USA and Malneirophrenia trio in Iceland.