Skerpla is an experimental sound lab based at Iceland University of the Arts.

The lab consists of a course that is running every semester at the IUA Music Department and Skerpla Ensemble that performs in different contexts.

Skerpla is run by Berglind María Tómasdóttir and John McCowen. Every semester guest artists are invited to lead sessions on doing things with sound.

List of invited artists & collaborators:

• Ragnar Árni Ólafsson (Spring 2022)

• Patrimoni acustic (Fall 2021)

• Bergrún Snæbjörnsdóttir (Spring 2021)

• Ben Frost (Spring 2021)

• Victoria Miguel: John Cage: An Online Writing Project (Fall 2020)

• Jane Riegler: Deep Listening (Fall 2020)

• Skerpla Ensemble interacting with An Urban Archive as an English Garden by Davíð Brynjar Franzson. (Fall 2020)

• Inventing Instruments: (BMT) (Spring 2020)

• Ingibjörg Friðriksdóttir: Unconventional notation and more (Spring 2020)

• Sophie Fetokaki: Exercises in Interdisciplinary Counterpoint (Fall 2019)

• Þóranna Björnsdóttir: Audio Narratives: (Fall 2019)

• Skerpla Ensemble in Mengi: Oliveros, Wolff and works by students (Fall 2019)

• Bergrún Snæbjörnsdóttir: Visual Music (Spring 2019)

• Davíð Þór Jónsson: Improvisation (Spring 2019)

• Michael Duch & Friends: Improvisation & Composition (Spring 2019)

• Erik DeLuca: Fluxus (Fall 2018)

• Cycle Music and Arts Festival: Audio Essays (Fall 2018)

• Daniel Corral (Fall 2018)

• Anthony Burr (Spring 2018)