Sigur Ros are composing live in a 'slow TV' drive through Iceland

A holy trinity of calm is assembling over on YouTube right now: Iceland, Sigur Rós and slow TV.

Airing on Icelandic national television channel rúv 2 and streaming worldwide, Þjóðvegur eitt (Route One in English) started at the summer solstice and is continuing throughout the longest day of the year - a 1332km journey the whole way round iceland’s coastal ring road. It's a little rainy today, but still quite a pleasant watch.

The 24-hour event is set to a score being created live, moment-by-moment by Sigur Rós using generative music software.

The individual musical elements of unreleased song and current Sigur Rós festival set opener, óveður, are seeded through the evolving music app bronze, to create a ‘unique ephemeral sonic experience’.

“In a day and age of instant gratification and everything moving so fast, we wanted to do the exact opposite,” Sigur Rós’s Jónsi Birgisson commented. “Slow tv is counter-active to the world we live in, in that it happens in real time and real slow.”

Driving anti-clockwise round the island, the journey will pass some delightful landmarks, including Vatnajökull, Europe’s largest ice-sheet; the glacial lagoon, Jökulsárlón; as well as the east fjords and the desolate black sands of Möðrudalur.

BBC Four previously hosted a slow tv week in the UK, which included uninterrupted canal trips, sleigh rides and dawn choruses.