Collection: The Incomprehensible Danny Midnight Orchestra

The artist formerly known as Wind-up Gramophone Jockey Danny Midnight has been hiding a joker up his sleeve. Under the banner of The Incomprehensible Danny Midnight Orchestra, he has written and performed a piece of musical drama called Metamorphoses.

The work is inspired by books of antiquity bearing the same title. Through ten biblical chapters, it chronicles the history of a world from its unwarranted beginning to its portended end in the style of, well, a string of bad jokes, a procession of deranged rituals, or could we perhaps call it a newsreel noir? You tell us.

In the originals, the ancient gods were the driving forces. This time around, there are other entities out to play. The creator is a rascally kid. Strange, mindless forces are up to no good. Some disgruntled president plays the part of a powerless commentator. An old washing woman may just turn out to be a fiend of creation, and what exactly are those twinkling stars up to anyway?