JANUARY 11, 2007 - MARCH 28, 2007
Illingworth Kerr Gallery, ACAD.
GALLERY HOURS: Tuesday thru Saturday 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
OPENING: Thursday, JANUARY 11, 2007, 5:00 - 8:00 pm
Organized and circulated by the National Gallery of Canada.
Forty Part Motet, is a sound sculpture by former Lethbridge, Alberta artist Janet Cardiff. It is Cardiff’s reworking and transposing of Spem in Alium by Thomas Tallis, a 16th Century English composer, who is said to have produced one of the most complex pieces of polyphonic choral music ever composed.
Forty voices from the Salisbury Cathedral Choir are each recorded separately at Salisbury Cathedral as part of an annual music festival. The individual voices are synchronized and played back through forty speakers to be positioned around the Illingworth Kerr Gallery. Sound fills the gallery space and viewers are free to walk around and between the speakers.
Thank you to George Bures Miller for his close involvement in the development of Forty Part Motet.
The critically acclaimed Janet Cardiff installation, Forty Part Motet won the National Gallery of Canada’s Millennium Prize in 2001. The IKG would like to extend its appreciation to the National Gallery of Canada for touring Forty Part Motet and providing on-site technical assistance in Calgary.
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