Before The Listening Begins

Publication

Included in anthology Sacred Spaces. February 2017.

Description

“Sacred Spaces examines the crucial role sound has played in our spiritual and religious lives for thousands of years, and explores the sonic similarities between different religions, and different types of sacred space from across the world.”

My composition was created entirely from one source file, Melissa Pons’ recording of a church congregation in Sweden, made in the moments before the organ processional. She writes: “I have been fascinated by what happens in a room where the audience is waiting for the music to start”. What exists in the space before listening?

Availability

You can listen over on AudioBoom.