Janet Cardiff and the Forty Part Motet | TateShots
Janet Cardiff is a Canadian artist who works chiefly with sound and sound installations; especially a form she calls audio walks.
Her artwork 'Forty Part Motet' is an audio installation reworking the sixteenth-century choral work Spem in Alium by English composer Thomas Talli.
The artist worked with the Salisbury Cathedral Choir to record 40 individual singers, playing each voice through its own corresponding speaker.
The speakers are carefully positioned in eight different groups of five, responding to the structure of Tallis’s complex vocal piece, or motet. Each group forms a choir of five singers with different vocal ranges: a bass, baritone, tenor, alto and soprano.
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