Davíð Brynjar Franzson is based in New York. Recent projects include the release of ‘the Negotiation of Context’ by Yarn/Wire on WERGO; the cello concerto on Matter and Materiality, commissioned by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the Icelandic National Radio’s commissioning fund; ‘longitude’, an installation based opera in collaboration with the Reykjavik based artists Halldor Ulfarsson and Angela Rawlings, the Vancouver based filmmaker Davyde Wachell, and the Berlin based Ensemble Adapter; and the Cartography of Time, an ongoing exploration of the experience of time, developed in collaboration with gnarwhallaby, Vicky Chow, Mariel Roberts, Matt Barbier & Weston Olencki, Matthias Engler, and Ingolfur Vilhjalmsson. ‘the Negotiation of Context’ was selected as one of the ten best contemporary releases of 2014 by the Wire, and has been described as ‘engagingly tactile’ by the NY Times, ‘compelling’ by the Wire and as ‘sonic art that is clearly going places’ by Gramophone. Upcoming projects include new works for +/-, Ensemble Chromoson, Russell Greenberg, Ryan Muncy, Matt Barbier, as well as a new large scale project with Yarn|Wire. Davíð co-runs Carrier Records—a label for new and experimental music—with Sam Pluta and Jeff Snyder.