Motet climbs inside a sublime circle of sound. Janet Cardiff’s Forty-Part Motet is a thrilling work, guaranteed to raise goose bumps. Alongside four pieces by members of the Sound Walking Group, ...

After it's highly successful collaboration with the Rotondo Choir from Poznan, Poland, for the highly acclaimed premiere of Mark Agius' Messa Da Requiem at St John's Co-Cathedral last March, the ...

The words "revolution" and "France" often seem to coincide. I'm not thinking specifically of the momentous events of 1789, but rather about the Gallic origins of the many distinctive revolutions in ...

Back when lockdown felt more like a novelty than a grind, I made a mental list of what I missed most. Visiting art museums was near the top. I returned to them eagerly in the summer, happy to book a ...

There are a lot of different things going on in “The Forty Part Motet,” Janet Cardiff’s majestic and entrancing sonic installation that is in residence at Gallery 308 in Fort Mason Center through ...

It’s hard to write about Janet Cardiff’s sound installation The Forty Part Motet without devolving into superlatives. Previous installations in New York at PS1 and the Cloisters garnered reviews that ...

Visitors basking in Cardiff’s soundscape in the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine. Courtesy of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine The cyclically repeating piece officially begins with the ...

Janet Cardiff talks about sound in such physical terms that one almost forgets she is describing something without tangible mass. Yet in conversation with the world-renowned Canadian sound artist, who ...

British composer Thomas Tallis was born 500 years ago. One of his most celebrated pieces of choral music was "Spem in Alium," a motet he wrote to be sung by eight five-voice choirs, each singing a ...