Former Sigur Rós member Kjartan Sveinsson composes music for actor-less experimental theatre piece

Sigur Rós keyboardist Kjartan Sveinsson left the group back in January 2013, citing desire to “do something different”. Now, it seems like he’s done exactly that, revealing a collaboration on an experimental theatre piece that contains no actors.

The project is entitled Der Klang der Offenbarung des Göttlichen and sees the musician pair up with Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson. ”Performative action has been removed from the production and actors are not a part of the production. Instead, Kjartan’s compositions of actors speaking lines,” a synopsis of the work reads.

The mixed-media venture will feature Sveinsson’s music as a score and Kjartansson’s stage paintings as a set.

“I’ve always been in great awe of the non-narrative parts and the abstract components during rehearsals,” Sveinsson explained. “I wanted to pay tribute to the mechanics and the formal elements of the theater. It’s a theatre play without actors that will only use the stage and the music as theatrical elements, intended as an homage to the machine, to the art of stage painting and the scenery. One could also say it’s opera without divas”.

The project will run at Berlin’s Volksbuehne throughout February and March.

[via CoS]