Wednesday, May 30, 2012

A Little Vivaldi with your Satanism- Kenneth Anger's Eaux d'Artifice

Kenneth Anger's Eaux d'Artifice.  I'm not exactly sure what the title means, since I speak pretty much no French.  I know from Debussy that Feu d'Artifice means 'fireworks,' and from high school french that Eaux means 'waters,' so is this a play on words that pretty much would mean 'water fireworks?' Anyways, it's a pretty evocative work.  Very surreal.  I especially like the soundtrack- Autumn from Vivaldi's Four Seasons, which depicts a drunken peasant, his 'restful slumber' and a hunting sport, in which the animal seems to be chased until it collapses from exhaustion and dies.