The Forty Part Motet. This is a 3 minute excerpt from a 13 minute sound installation by Janet Cardiff.
In this work, each of the voices of Thomas Tallis' 1575 composition, Spem in Alium have been recorded separately and are played back individually through one of forty speakers. As you walk around the space, you can listen to each of the voices in turn, or to all of them together from the middle of the room.
Produced by Field Art Projects with the Arts Council of England, Canada House, the Salisbury Festival and Salisbury Cathedral Choir, BALTIC Gateshead, The New Art Gallery Walsall and the Now Festival Nottingham, with the assistance of Tascam UK and B&W Loudspeakers.
Producer: Theresa Bergne
Recording and Post-Production: SoundMoves
Recorded in The Mediaeval Hall in Salisbury, England
Final Edit: George Bures Miller
Loudspeakers by B&W
Sung by The Salisbury Cathedral Choir
Conductor: Simon Lole
Canon: Jeremy Davies
Conductor: Shelagh Lamb
Choir 1
Thomas Cross, Thomas Stockwell, Matthew Stockwell, Lawrence Best, Stephen Abbott, Chris Hobkirk, Hugh Hetherington, Rory Waters
Choir 2
Charles Hughes, Thomas Robinson-Woledge, Jonathan Moody, Raphael Hetherington, Andrew Stewart, Nick Berry, Julian Hubbard, John Robinson
Choir 3
Oliver Pash, George White, Oliver Campbell-Hill, Ewan Stockwell, Mike Brown, Chris Dragonetti, Grant Doyle, James Skuse
Choir 4
Olympia Hetherington, Sophie Bradley, Sofia Larsson, Neil Baker, David Martin-Smith, Simon Kapper, Bob Thackray
Choir 5
Danielle Green, Camilla Godlee, Alexandra Tyson, Roger Mullis, Ian Wicks, Sandrey Date, Jim McPherson
Choir 6
Elizabeth Burrowes, Lucinda Thompson-Mainland, Beatrice Bathe, Jules Gayle, Roger Covey-Crump, Rob Evans, Ken Burgess
Choir 7
Harriet Colley, Rosalind Oglethorpe, Anna Taylor, Ben Lamb, Dennis Whitehead, Steve Folkes, Simon Gaunt
Choir 8
India Webb, Bryony Moody, Grace Newcombe, Stephen Taylor, Colin Howard, Phil Tebb, Richard Hopper