The Golem - how he came into the world

[silent film, Paul Wegener / Carl Boese (1920)]
live-music: Pujah [2005/10] by IzP

duration: 85'

(first performed: may 04th 2005, Essen / Germany)

FILM:
He cannot speak, but follows orders. “Golem” is the Hebrew word for “unshaped form”, and in the mystical tradition of Judaism a ritual is mentioned in which inanimate material can be brought to life. Rabbi Loew creates one such artificial being, in human form, out of loam and clay.

MUSIC:
The image of the golem is one of elemental force, rife with secret, supernatural, ritual, and unspoken elements. Pujah is a proto-word, spoken prior to the learning of a language. This enduring anachronism reveals itself to the public through the dusty mire of a brutish landscape of sound that swirls up the detritus of history.

Music for amplified accordion, electric bass, live electronics, keyboard, screaming and whispering, and drum computer.

[translated by Eric Flesher / USA]