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Also out this season is “Azoth,” a more jagged set of experimental chamber pieces written for a pair of cellists, Michael Nicolas and Jay Campbell.

In 1936 an artist, obsessed with astrology, apparently plans to slaughter six family members — his own daughters, stepdaughters and nieces — and use their body parts to create the ultimate woman, Azoth.

It would appear that someone else is creating Azoth.

—Thyon Nero: the alchemist who had distilled azoth.

A storybook might have held the secret of azoth, and knowledge of stories might have earned him a place in the party, but he hardly thought that tales would give him an edge now.