To my luck, I was offered a job as a coffee barista and realized that if I record the basic sounds a person hears at a coffee shop, any student/teacher/person will easily relate to it. After having moved to Sydney three months ago, I realized that coffee is a major factor in this city. While working on this project, I wanted to let any listener transform the sounds that I will make them hear into reality. During these four minutes, the listener would hear people discussing the weather, clearing their throats, and doing very basic human stuff like breathing in at the start of the singing. It made him realize that the sounds are real people. This addition made the piece so realistic to the listener. Mainly, the four minutes of preparation included in the piece are the part I focused on. With all of these different voices altered around the oval-shaped space, the listener is easily transferred to a world where it seems that the choir is actually performing live in front of him/her.Ĭontemporary Art Exhibitions at Auckland Castle Architecture is the ability to create a two dimensional drawing that is, most of the times, translated into a three-dimensional building. Cardiff wanted listeners to experience this piece as a three-dimensional composition, and that’s how it’s specifically related to architecture. Janett said, in an interview with the Foundation of Louis Vuitton team on the fourteenth of December last year, that she “sees it as a sculpture.” This motet is actually fourteen minutes in length with four minutes of the sounds of the preparations before the singing actually starts. After being organized and set up in different museums around the world from Canada to Brazil, listeners were able to experience the complexity of this piece exactly how Janet Cardiff planned it. It’s basically a choir singing this mid fifteen hundreds motet. The Forty part motet is an audio installation that consists of forty different speakers which play simultaneously the voices of forty different singers that have had their voices recorded separately.
This art piece is a reworking of “Spem in Alium” by Thomas Tallis made in 1573. One of the most known sound designers is Janett Cardiff, the Canadian creator of the “Forty Part Motet”. Also, if we consider sound not in a spatial context, a sound designer will pass through the same experience as an architect while designing or even filming a piece. Rarely do architects think of sound while building, but, when they do, their designs is completed to the hundred percent. In architecture, sound establishes a new perspective of a space and helps interpret it in more creative and different ways. However, the only difference that sound has, comparing it to all the other factors, is that it’s basically an “invisible” structure. When it comes to sound, it has the same value as any other structure in a spatial context. Even though there are several approaches to Architecture from solid materials, visual spaces, geometry, or even photography, one would least expect the integration of the sonic dimension in this industry.
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