Songs About Everything: Animal Stories is a new multimedia work for seven performers and videoprojection by American composer Natacha Diels, commissioned by Copenhagen-based Wolfskin Ensemble.

This piece is inspired by an invented mythology in Sheila Heti’s book Pure Colour, which divides humans into three origins: born from fish egg, bear egg, or bird egg. Each inhabits the world differently, pulled towards different ways of seeing, behaving, and understanding. Held in balance with each other, the three eggs are incomplete, interdependent, and wholly unmovable — no single perspective can shift without disturbing the others.

The piece takes this mythology as a blueprint for thinking about human interaction and the difficulty of change. How might fundamentally different ways of moving, breathing, reacting temporarily exchange places? What fascinating misunderstandings could take place in the exchange? Imagining such a state of equilibrium makes its instability more visible. Stasis becomes a way of examining movement: a means of considering what might have to shift, collapse, or be redistributed before a different balance can emerge.

MINU_festival_for_expanded_music is a Copenhagen-based festival presenting art on the borders of experimental music and other media. It is a space for oscillating between extremes and charting relationships between art, technology, and contemporary culture.

Songs About Everything: Animal Stories

Concerts

26. Nov

21:00

MINU_festival_for_expanded_music 2026

Alice CPH

Copenhagen