The embrace of the Serpent with the Devil, Eve’s dream of the loss of Paradise, Nature’s lament for the Bacchic massacre of Pentheus.
John Milton’s extreme iconoclastic, borderline blasphemous Renaissance language and Euripides’ archetypal Bacchic figures of excess are turned into amorphous sound clouds, chained grooves, sonic confluences and collisions.
A transcendent vocal trio, a voluminous choral mass, a classical harmonium, drones and electronically processed voices set up a sound machine of verbal transformations; a contemporary oratorio, in which the words’ semantics are substituted by their acoustic imprint.
