About One Copy Twice
In collaboration with Ben van Bueren, Robin Buijs and Thomas Bensdorp, I formed the music theater collective Dreamtigers. At the invitation of Spr!tzl, a project aimed at developing new theatrical/musical crossovers by Silbersee, we created the performance One Copy Twice.
We were inspired by the science fiction novel Morels Invention by Adolfo Bioy Casares, in which a hellish invention recreates reality in all it’s physical manifestations. For this performance we use all kinds of musical instruments, objects and a self-developed machine. Our compositions interact directly with light, creating moving shadow images. The musical idiom is very diverse, from adventurous pop to contemporary classical music.
One Copy Twice
Artist: Dreamtigers
Credits: concept development, some co-arranging, technical development, performance
Review:
This years edition of Spr!tzl was deservedly won by Dreamtigers.
For One Copy Twice, these four composers/musicians draw inspiration from the novel Morel’s Invention by the Argentinian writer Adolfo Bioy Casares, contemporary and friend of Jorge Luis Borges. It’s clever how Dreamtigers captured the magical-realistic atmosphere of it’s prose in a mix of psychedelic art-rock songs and a steampunk-like shadow play machine of moving dollhouse facades and model landscapes.
**** NRC