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Tallis: Spem in Alium

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Sat, Jul 10 2010, 5:40AM
bloeff
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Hi,

Wow! 8 choirs - 40 voices! This is me singing all the parts. I really need encouragement to finish this project. Let me know what you think. I apologize for the poor sound quality, but all the audio I post on YouTube gets distorted.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZGvK7P7-kk

Thanks,

Bruce

 

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Sat, Jul 10 2010, 5:23PM
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RE: Tallis: Spem in Alium

Bruce,

You are a brave man!

I've had the interesting - and unnerving - experience of hearing Spem in Alium performed via circle of loudspeakers, one voice per speaker - you could walk round and pick up each voice, or stand in the middle and simply be overwhelmed by the effect.  The was at the Northern Tate some years ago.

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Fri, Sep 16 2011, 10:38PM
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RE: Tallis: Spem in Alium

Hi everybody,

Thanks to encouragement from many of you, I persevered and finished the project. Here it is - all 5,784 tracks!! I wonder what Tallis would have thought had he heard this. He was such a creative genius that he probably imagined the day when man would develop the technology to enable a single human being to sing all 40 parts of his motet Spem in alium "at the same time"! Enjoy and let me know what you think.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzDty7CNk6Y

P.S. I would really like to promote my music and get it "into the right ears". Any suggestions in this area would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks again,
Bruce

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