this is the thing i tried to post last night, but i failed. go listen to the music, because, like i said yesterday? wow. “the coloring of pigeons.” or like jonno says, “this is fucking amazing.”

joethelion:

jonnodotcom:

The Knife in collaboration with Mt. Sims and Planningtorock: “Tomorrow, In a Year”: “Commissioned by Danish performance group Hotel Pro Forma to write the music for their opera based on Charles Darwin and his book ‘On the Origin of the Species’, The Knife decided to make this a collaborative process, working with artists Mt. Sims and Planningtorock for the first time, to capture the huge width of the Darwin and evolution theme … Richard Dawkins’s gene trees have formed the basis of some of the musical composition, artificial sounds have been mixed with field recordings, with the music inspired by everything from the different stages of a bird learning its melody, to a song based on Darwin’s loving letters about his daughter Anne. These are compositions that challenge the conventional conception of opera music.”

Translation: this is fucking amazing.