Introduction

"Ladies and gentlemen, this piece of music comes from one of my principle influences as an artist. I'm talking of course, though he needs no introduction, of the great Oedipus Rex. Rex was a songwriter from one of the most existential regions of Eastern Europe. Early on in his career, he was hailed as the 'spokesperson of his generation' but in the years preceding his death, he suffered from an acute state of mental psychosis. And whilst he made some of his best music at this time, he was was often cruelly mocked and undermined on the existentialist social scene. However, all this prejudice melted away one famous night; Rex stunned the crowd at a glamourous party by conducting an orchestra composed of the ghosts and demons that tormented him nightly. To general astonishment, the music produced by this hallucinatory ensemble was audible to all present.

It is therefore with great pleasure that I present to you our guests tonight 'Oedipus Rex and the Invisible Orchestra'!"