Somtow's World
Monday, October 26, 2009
Second Avatar
Here is a video of the second session of "Avatar Dvadas"... it is quite something, I think you will all agree. The first twenty minutes are a performance by Fong Naam of a traditional piece from the Ayuthaya Period (i.e. it's about 300-400 years old) but the music starts to mutate into something really strange with the addition of the Babylonian names of the stars in Libra and four new methods of making sound: shovelling, stamping, shaking, and sweeping....
Next month, a science fiction opera to celebrate the rising of Scorpio ... since so many giant scorpions routinely attack the earth....
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