The personal iconography of Moorcock's fictional world has become so rich, each work he produces forms part of a complex echo chamber, singing beautifully into both the past and future of his own mythologies; just as London itself is the great, stuttering energy source, simultaneously contemporary and Dickensian, wired through invisible counter cultures.
Meanwhile, in the Old Town of Salzburg, another Austrian advent tradition of a more sedate kind has just finished – advent singing and chamber music in the baroque splendour of St Peter's Abbey.
The public when admitted to the death chamber sang a memorial hymn.
And in a three-day stretch in August, in New York, he sang with two chamber choirs (also conducting one of them), played and sang in a pop theater piece and gave a concert with itsnotyouitsme, his ambient rock duo.
The production's monumental aspects notwithstanding, this "Atys" is sung almost as chamber opera, or at least closer to what you hear in a relatively small house like Glyndebourne than at the Metropolitan Opera.
Although she went on to sing in a chamber choir and was working to master percussion and classical guitar in her spare time, an open-mic spot at songwriter Michelle Escoffery's London soul monthly Kindred Spirit launched her career.
Another lesson of the evening was that even with a chamber orchestra Wagner singing needs Wagnerian voices.
We designed a custom electronic circuit to power the microphones and to amplify and filter their output signal, and we designed courtship chambers to position singing males as close to the microphones as possible.
"There's a chamber orchestra, puppets, actors, singing, a bit of dancing – well, rhythmic movement anyway.
