Kevin Bronson on May 24th, 2016

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Spencer Berger, the Queens-bred Angeleno who sang with the Metropolitan Opera Children’s Chorus as a youth and now makes music as Auditorium, tackles the big stuff on his forthcoming album “The First Music.” Due this summer, it’s Auditorium’s first release since 2012, the result of more than 200 nights of recording in his apartment (oh, to be his neighbor), during which he played all the instruments and meticulously layered the background vocals. Berger calls the album “a hunt for answers to unanswerable questions,” with songs inspired by personal tragedy, family history, childhood memories and world events, all polished into  3-minute gems that straddle the folk, pop and classical worlds.

“Mt. Moriah” is a stunning 2 1/2-minute allegory that gets an equally riveting treatment from video director Ben Barnes. Here, he follows two children who are being ferried to another neighborhood to go trick-or-treating, and in one of those moments of lost innocence a little girl witnesses that which she does not comprehend.

Another of Barnes’ videos for Auditorium, “Fire Fire Ocean Liner,” will be on the program Wednesday night at the Hammer Museum as part of the Flux Screening Series, along with videos from the Kills, Major Lazer and Pollyn.

||| Watch: The video for “Mt. Moriah”

||| Previously: “My Grandfather Could Make the World Dance”