This is very much a hybrid form, incorporating acting, contemporary dance, lighting, visual effects, stage design and the cutting edge score composed by The Knife, Mt Sims and Planningtorock. It’s a multimedia experience very much of its time but with some elements with the potential to transcend the rise and fall of specific trends.
Lady Gaga describes her Monster Ball tour as “the first ever electro opera”, but Swedish sibling duo The Knife beat her to the punch. Tomorrow, in a Year, their 90-minute opus inspired by the work of Charles Darwin, debuted in Copenhagen last September, two months before Gaga hit the road.
UK premiere of a new work blending Hotel Pro Forma’s striking visuals with a score by pop-duo The Knife in collaboration with Mt. Sims and Planningtorock to create a new species of electro-opera. See more details on The Barbican’s website
“Tomorrow, in a Year demands 90 minutes of your listening time, preferably a few times over, plus some internet research, but for what it delivers, it’s a valid trade-off.”
“Tomorrow, In A Year may be one of the absolute most challenging pieces of music ever created. On first listen, the album’s first half – thick as it is with clicking and hissing and chirping”