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One Collective Breath: Janet Cardiffโ€™s โ€˜The Forty Part Motetโ€™ | KQED Arts

โ€˜Canadian artist Janet Cardiffโ€™s โ€œThe Forty Part Motet,โ€ is deceptively simple in appearance: a spare room occupied solely with a ring of black speakers on stands. But once the first collective breath of the virtual choir begins, and the forty part harmonies of Thomas Tallisโ€™s masterful choral work ripple throughout the gallery, the โ€œmind-bogglingโ€ complexity of her sound sculpture becomes apparent.โ€˜