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As you very well already know, Sigur Rós released their Sæglópur EP/DVD in North America earlier this month via Worker's Institute. Disc one, aka the audio portion of the package, features a track from Takk and music expanding on the material found on the band's Untitled and Ba Ba Ti Ki Di Do EPs.

But Sigur Rós aren't quite done with Ba Ba Ti Ki Di Do-- originally composed and recorded for a project from acclaimed choreographer Merce Cunningham in 2003. The Icelandic quartet will make its way to Miami on February 25 of next year to once again provide the score for Cunningham's dance company's performance of Split Sides, this time as a part of the Carnival Center for the Performing Arts' citywide festival, Merce in Miami. The fest is scheduled to run through February and March 2007. Sigur Rós will play at the city's Ziff Ballet Opera House.

Ba Ba Ti Ki Di Do (this name refers to the only spoken words in the piece) will run twenty minutes and mark Sigur Rós' only 2007 U.S. slot with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. The latter half of the forty-minute dance's score was composed by a little band called Radiohead, who, sadly, won't be performing in Miami.

Merce in Miami will also feature eyeSpace, a piece commissioned by the Carnival Center for the event, and Cunningham's first-ever Miami collaboration with Daniel Arsham and composer David Behrman, as well as performances of Merce's Ocean, CRWDSPCR, Crises, and more.