Скачать или смотреть Mr. Picforth: In Nomine (c. 1570)

Frauke Hess, Júlia Vető, Marthe Perl, Claas Harders - Viola da Gamba
Giso Grimm - Viola da Gamba, signal processing
Ágoston Fehér - Video

The only known work by our favourite Renaissance composer, Mr. Picforth, is one of the earliest representatives of minimal music. Each voice plays a single rhythm throughout the piece, representing the movements of the planets. A celestial masterpiece.

This piece is part of our electro-acoustic concert project "Harmony of the Spheres", http://orlandoviols.de/. The sound of this recording was spatialized and processed in low-delay real-time.

Facsimile reproduced with kind permission of the British Library.
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Harmony of the Spheres

The movements of celestial bodies have long held a particular fascination to mankind. Astronomers and philosophers in the renaissance carefully studied the movements of celestial bodies; in their models the sun, the moon, and the five planets known at that time moved in a universal harmony, the Harmony of the Spheres. This fascination with mathematical and astronomical regularities and patterns inspired many composers, most notably during the 16th and the 20th centuries; a time when the aesthetics of numbers and proportions played a large role in the arts, from architecture to music.

Electro-acoustic concert

In our performance we project musical concepts into the spatial dimension using a 15-channel loudspeaker reproduction and low-delay realtime signal processing. The musical concepts are supported by a light installation. The sound processing has been carefully tuned to the period instruments and aims to provide the audience with a concert experience of unprecedented intensity.