A mashup of phrases from Monteverdi. Written for the Rooke Chapel Choir in 1995.

Mary Jane Leach-Song of Sorrows

Instruments: soundscapes, field recordings, random sessions, synths and samplers, bass and bells, sequencers and DAWs, tapes and tubes.

MARY JANE LEACH is a composer/performer whose work reveals a fascination with the physicality of sound, its acoustic properties and how they interact with space. In many of her works Leach creates an other-worldly sound environment using difference, combination, and interference tones; these are tones not actually sounded by the performers, but acoustic phenomena arising from Leach’s deft manipulation of intonation and timbral qualities: “an acoustic Through the Looking Glass world based on sound that the performer is not making.” (The New Yorker).

Mary Jane Leach-Song of Sorrows

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