≫  Tuesday 29th Nov 8pm
Studio Theatre Union Chapel
Islington N1 2XD
(entrance on Compton Avenue)

notes inégales are joined by celebrated
performance poet Murray Lachlan Young to present

 

hot AN INFERNAL CABARET

programme includes

hot donatoni
infernal airs rameau (arr. butler)
from bitches brew miles davis (arr. butler/wiegold)
three proverbs of hell (william blake) wiegold

 

“notes inégales”

Le Lardon - Peter Wiegold

L’Entretien des Muses - Rameau

Unfold it - Tansy Davies (first performance, IF:05 Commission)

Le Rappel des Oiseaux - Rameau

Les Tourbillons - Morgan Hayes (first performance, IF:05 Commission)

Rigaudon, Deuxieme Rigaudon et Double, Musette en Rondeau - Rameau

Frank’d up - John Woolrich (first performance, IF:05 Commission)

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“Damn Braces” - Peter Wiegold (first performance, IF:05 Commission)

Each of the movements of the piece are based on one of the “Proverbs of Hell” from William Blake’s “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell”
I.   Damn Braces
II.  Drive your cart and your plough over the bones of the dead
III. The nakedness of woman is the glory of god
IV. The cistern contains: the fountain overflows
V.   The lust of the goat is the bounty of God
VI.  The soul of sweet delight shall never be defil’d
VII. The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom
VIII. Bless relaxes

 

“Damn Braces” - Peter Wiegold

Each of the movements of the piece are based on one of the “Proverbs of Hell” from William Blake’s “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell”. Blake began this in about 1780, and it consists of illuminated plates of different kinds of text:

Religious argument:

That contrary to ideas of the time that body and soul are separate:

(1) Man has no Body distinct from his soul; for that call’d body is a portion of soul discern’d by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.

(2) Energy is the only life and is from Body and Reason is the bound or outward circumference of energy

(3) Energy is Eternal delight

Fantastic visions:

“but now, from between the black and white spiders, a cloud and fire bust and rolled thro’ the deep, black’ning all beneath, so that the nether deep grew black as a sea, & rolled with a terrible noise.......”

And the Proverbs:

“as I was walking among the fires of hell, delighted with the enjoyments of genius, which to Angels look like torment and insanity, I collected some of their Proverbs; thinking that as the sayings used in a nation mark its character, so the Proverbs of Hell show the nature of Inferal wisdom better than any description of buildings or garments.