it was also the only time any of us got to work with another 20th century titan, richard avedon, who photographed jónsi (only jónsi) with thom yorke and merce. split sides was probably never rendered in the same way twice, and we never really wrote any more music that had quite the same atmosphere or genesis again. and thus was born a magical performance dictated exclusively by chance. on opening night, at the brooklyn academy of music, merce’s life-long friend and collaborator robert rauschenberg rolled a die: odds for radiohead, even for sigur rós, and so on for all the other elements. we recorded merce’s voice talking about choreography, which we then chopped into the tight syllables of our eventual titles, “ba ba”, “ti ki”, “di do”, and also worked with little wooden music boxes where you could punch your own roll cards (although we choose to use the pre-punched cards and played them backwards, slowly). we went away and, probably because merce’s company danced barefoot, decided to destroy some ballet pointes, turning them into makeshift percussion instruments. the same stricture would apply to costume, set design and indeed choreographer – for each of which there were to be two options – no one had a brief or knew what anyone else was doing. we met the great man, who was lovely, and told that we had to compose blind. back in 2003, to commemorate the merce cunningham company’s 50th anniversary, ourselves and radiohead were lucky enough to be asked to each come up with 20 minutes of music for merce’s new piece split sides. Happy birthday merce cunningham who would have been 100 today.
variations on darkness will be re-released on august 9.ġ6 April 2019 sigur rós: ba ba ti ki di do / originally released on record store day, variations on darkness returns with new artwork, reversed in colour and printed in special ink. arranged by valdimar johansson, choreographed by erna ómarsdóttir. premiered at nor?ur og ni?ur festival, to soundtrack performances from the icelandic dance company. Variations on darkness a score of high nordic drama drawing on unreleased sigur rós material and multi-tracks from the band’s catalogue. 22° lunar halo will be re-released on august 9.
originally released on record store day, 22° lunar halo returns with new artwork, reversed in colour and printed in special ink. pre-order now.Ģ2 lunar halo music from throughout sigur rós’s career, twisted, bent, broken, and finally added to in the band’s reykjavík studio, to create a new perspective for a dance piece of the same title initiated and created by taiwanese choreographer cheng tsung-lung. Originally released on record store day, 22° lunar halo and variations on darkness return with new artwork, reversed in colour and printed in special ink. There are also some very limited copies of ágætis byrjun available on the store: As kjartan sveinsson tours throughout europe this week, we look back to last year when he spoke to “life of the record” about recording “ágætis byrjun”.
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