For a long time, Iceland was a small, remote and isolated country. In 1947 - the year that Karl Aage Rasmussen and Anders Eliasson were born - a music exhibition in Reykjavik featured a picture of an orchestra (and conductor!) with the following note in the accompanying booklet:

Når Anders Eliasson kaster terninger handler det ikke om aleatorik eller chance operations. Det er et udtryk for hans syn på komposi-tionsprocessens irrationelle og intuitive aspekter.