The Knife to tackle Darwin opera

Brother and sister duo Olof and Karin Dreijer will provide the music and libretto for Tomorrow, in a Year, which will be premiered by Danish theatre group Hotel Pre Forma in Copenhagen in September 2009.

'It's a big challenge,' Olof told Musolife.com. 'It's a 100-minute piece and the frames for the composition are very abstract, open for interpretation. It's hard but that makes it very exciting.'

'Darwinian evolution theories like natural selection are very interesting to put in musical composition,' he explained. 'You can have sounds and melodies develop in a evolution-like pattern where the sounds with best adaptability or most individual characters have the better chance to survive.'

The Knife's website reports that Olof is currently in the Amazon making field recordings of animals, fish and plants.

Tomorrow, in a Year is co-produced by Geneva's La Bâtie festival and Dresden's European Centre for the Arts, and is produced in co-operation with the Royal Danish Theatre.

www.theknife.net

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