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BIOGRAPHY
Bláar Kindsdottir was born in Eskifjörður, Iceland, in 1928, but moved to England with her parents in 1936 and has lived in the Lake District since the mid 1940s. She studied painting briefly with Kurt Schwittwers and subsequently composition for a short period with Khaikosru Sorabji.
She had early success with her large-scale setting for voice and percussion ensemble of Stanislaw Mlodozeniec's futurist poem Ten niebieski owca, performed at the 1952 ISCM Festival in Copenhagen, but her move towards what she called 'absurdist music' and the failure of the Wastwater Anti-Festival, which she founded in 1954, led her to abandon composition until recently. Since 2001 she has written more than 120 very short songs, including a contribution to the NMC Songbook.
