Sea Roar and Song Break

Pettegree, J. K. (Participant)

Activity: Other activity types › Other

Description

Soundscape composition with choral voices

Period	21 Mar 2021 → …
Event title	Transept 2021 Exhibition: In/break
Event type	Exhibition
Location	St Andrews, United KingdomShow on map

Keywords

music
theology and the arts
COVID-19
Psalms
soundscape
environment
choral music

Documents & Links

Soundscape Composition - choral, spoken voice, synthesised music and ambient noise. This is a collaborative composition, featuring the collective voices of Saint Andrews Episcopal church choir, St Andrews, Fife, scaffolded by a new Anglican chant setting of Psalm 98. The SATB mix of the psalm was prepared first as a virtual choir. The choir were then given 2 audio prompts and asked to use their phones to record short responses. The first audio prompt, sent out at the end of Epiphany, was a soundscape quoting Revelations 4 and asking everyone to remember a moment where they had an intimation of divine presence breaking through in music. The second audio prompt, circulated on Ash Wednesday, quoted from Job 4 and Psalm 39 on the theme of penitential silence; the choir were asked to listen quietly in the following stillness to the sounds they heard from the created world. The choir director listened to the submissions for connections and conversations and wove these around the verses of Psalm 98. What emerges is a record of our worshiping-in-sound: a time-delayed in-breaking of thoughts, words and music from our various places of COVID19 isolation

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Research output
Transept in/break artist reflection: sea roar and sound break - a reflection on composition in a time of silence
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article