Sublime Sound: Janet Cardiff at the High
Janet Cardiff’s The Forty Part Motet (A reworking of “Spem in Alium” by Thomas Tallis 1573) is oftentimes described as an artwork that brings its audience to transcendence and tears.1 The 40-channel sound installation, originally produced in 2001, has by now traveled throughout the world and been written on extensively, which is conceptually interesting for this work considering … Continued