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Forms of Sound Festival- February 3, 2017. Lands' End Ensemble / New Voices New Directions Concert. Sacred Voices of the Golden Horn is a multi-movement work for a mixed chamber ensemble and sound files. In this work, I explored transmutations and combinations of a variety of musical material derived from the musical traditions of several minority religious communities in Istanbul. The piece comprises six movements, each of which is dedicated to one of the musical traditions of Istanbul. The first movement, "Time", is dedicated to Orthodox Christianity; the second movement, "Cry", is dedicated to Sunni Islam; the third movement, "Kam", is dedicated to the old pagan religion of the Turkic people (Tengriism); the fourth movement, "Triangle", is dedicated to Catholic Christianity; the fifth movement, "Exodus…again", is dedicated to Judaism and, the sixth movement, "Spin", is dedicated to Sufi Islam. Sacred Voices of the Golden Horn captures the expressive character of the religious practices in a manner that reveals the ways in which they have maintained their own identity and profoundly affected each other. The piece is a celebration of the generous character of Istanbulite society and an attempt to bring that spirit, in an aesthetic manner, to a wider audience.

Sacred Voices of the Golden Horn

Tom Waits (on Jim Wilson): "Wilson, he's always playing with time. I heard a recording recently of crickets slowed way down. It sounds like a choir, it sounds like angel music. Something sparkling, celestial with full harmony and bass parts - you wouldn't believe it. It's like a sweeping chorus of heaven, and it's just slowed down, they didn't manipulate the tape at all. So I think when Wilson slows people down, it gives you a chance to watch them moving through space. And there's something to be said for slowing down the world."

Source: "Woyzeck to run at Freud Playhouse". Daily Bruin (USA), by Andrew Lee. December 3, 2002

Find more on the recording on this link: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023815586

Tom Waits on Tom waits talking about this recording - http://gloriousnoise.com/2008/tom_waits_interviews_tom_waits

More on the recording - http://hearingvoices.com/transcript.php?fID=142

You can buy original recording here - http://www.amazon.com/Gods-Chorus-Crickets-Jim-Wilson/dp/1932192077?tag=viglink124132-20

Original recording from the author - http://www.constancedemby.com/godscricketchorus_f.html

And more: http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2013/10/13/weekend-diversion-is-this-an-amazing-chorus-of-slowed-down-crickets/

Sacred Voices of the Golden Horn

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