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Son of Gunnar, Ton of Shel is the duo of Aram Shelton and Steini Gunnarson. Their music, which is largely improvised, is held together by a shared sense of commitment to long forms and instinctive timing. Using prepared guitar, wind instruments and live sample-based processing via PD and MSP, they create thick multilayered textural music that is guided by their expressive melodicism.

Gudmundur Steinn Gunnarsson was born in Reykjavik, Iceland in 1982. Beginning with music studies at the age of seven, he most recently studied composition with Alvin Curran, Fred Frith and Annie Gosfield at Mills College. In 2005 he graduated from The Iceland Academy of Arts where he studied with Úlfar Haraldsson and Hilmar Þórðarson as well as performed with many including Hilmar Jensson. In addition he has learned from Tristan Murail, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Clarence Barlow.

Aram Shelton grew up in southeast Florida and began studying & learning how to play music around the age of ten with his first instrument, the saxophone. He moved to Chicago in 1999, attracted to the creative music scene. There he continued to study music and expanded his range of instruments by learning clarinet & bass clarinet, studying trumpet, and eventually using computers to add other textures and sonic possibilities unable to be created by acoustic instruments.