Kyle Leve-LO-Week-11

A piece of sound art that I discovered is called The 40 Part Motet by Janet Cardiff. This project uses 40 different speakers to play 40 different parts of the piece Spem in Alium by Thomas Tallis. The piece is originally very simple however this project makes the piece much more complex. The voices relate to each other in ways that are a lot less apparent in the original versions. What I find inspirational about this project is that Cardiff was able to take a piece of music created in the 16th Century and apply today’s advancements in technology to create something emotional and spiritual. This demonstrates how past and present can be combined to create something that can relate to everyone.

Video explaining the piece

The piece