This is a love song from the province of Samegrelo, in the west of Georgia. The language is Megruli, one of 3 languages spoken in Georgia. 

Recorded/filmed Dec 2019 in Toronto for Georgian Sounds of Canada, produced by and broadcasted on Ethnic Channels Group

Chkin Kiana ჩქინ კიანა

Recordings from Mass for the Feast of Saint Gregory the Great, held September 3, 2025 at St. Gregory the Great Church in Chicago. Music by St. Gregory's Schola under the direction of Kevin Allen (composer-in-residence).

Gloria - Missa Saeculorum Amen – Guerrero

Agnus Dei – Missa Caça – Morales

Unam petii – Allen

Circuibo – Allen

im like Chris-Chan (prod by sickboi)

Not Related

recording of a rehearsal :: sound experimentation :: text + voice (multilingual polyphony):: Matthew 23:13 - bible quote in German-English-Macedonian-Italian + tocante + drum machine + looper

Matthäus 23-13

A sacred Choral piece with a contemporary feel.

Lux Aeterna Transiens (Passing Eternal Light)

A beautiful compilation of Bulgarian folk songs dedicated to the wine and its connection with people's life.

Wine songs / Песни за виното

Recordings from Mass for the feast of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, held October 7, 2025 at St. Gregory the Great Church in Chicago. Music by St. Gregory's Schola under the direction of Kevin Allen (composer-in-residence).

Solemnitas gloriosae - Alleluia

Agnus Dei - Missa a tre voci - Lotti

Will-o'-the-Wisp. Lost Souls - Nava in Slavic Mythology. The complex polyphony interweaves Ukrainian neofolk motifs to create dynamic, earthy sounds.

07 Ignis fatuus

Where did we go

Cloud Study is a quiet piece that listens back. Originally part of the exhibition Intimation of Endless Space Given in a Small Window of Time (Artspace Aotearoa, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland), it is the only work from the series written in standard notation.

A study in dissonance, tone, and internal vibration. Tensions emerge and dissipate. At times, the ear itself seems to sing.

Best experienced on good headphones or speakers, at low to mid volume.

Intimation of Endless Space Given in a Small Window of Time: Cloud Study

No longer mourn for me when I am dead
Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell
Give warning to the world that I am fled
From this vile world with vilest worms to dwell; 
Nay, if you read this line, remember not
The hand that writ it; for I love you so, 
That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, 
If thinking on me then should make you woe.
O, if (I say) you look upon this verse, 
When I (perhaps) compounded am with clay,
Do not so much as my poor name rehearse,
But let your love even with my life decay,
Lest the wise world should look into your moan, 
And mock you with me after I am gone.

- William Shakespeare

https://youtu.be/CDp92r5akTg

Sonnet 71

This is an 80 part hive motet, set to the following texts taken from my book - Seeing is Beveiling: https://www.theartelpress.co.uk/news/seeing-is-beveiling-2/

PATERA NOSCE, QUI ES IN COEPIS, SANNIO TE FICTOR.
NOMISMA TUUM ADVENA REGNUM TUUM. 
FETURAT VOLUPTAS TUA SICCUS IN CELATA.
ET INTER ALIA.
PALUS NOSCITUM COTIS ANTRUM DEA NOBIS HODIE.
ET DIMENSIO NOBILIS DEBILITO NOTUS. 
SECURUS ET NOS DIMETE DEBETE NIGRESCO.
ET NEMUS INDUBIUS IN TENACITAS OMEN. 
SEDATIO LIBERALITER NOS AMATORIUS.

Know the bowl, who you are in the beginning, you are the maker of a panacea.
Your coin is a stranger to your kingdom.
Your pleasure spawns in a hidden temperature. 
And among other things.
A marsh, known to us today as the cave goddess of the grindstone.
And the noble dimension is known to the weakened.
We must feel safe and darken.
And the wood is an unambiguous omen for tenacity.
Calming us freely and lovingly.

AUDEO AUDIENS AURA AURARIA – AUCTORITAS AUCTUS AUCUPO AUDACIA – AUDEO AUDIENS – AUFERO AUGEO – AURA AURARIA – AURATUS AUREOLUS – AUREUS AURICULA – AURIFER AUSCULTATIO – AUSCULTATOR AUSPEX

I dare to hear a golden breeze – authority increased the boldness of the bird – I dare to listen – I take away and increase – a golden breeze – a golden halo – a golden ear – a golden listening – an auspicious listener! 

Time – though it pass – shall not speed
While we – by our love – are freed
From all notions of the hour
Constrained not by its brief power.

Stars rising – merely – each day
Over love’s sphere have no sway
Thorns planted in this short life’s stony ground
Will soon – as roses – be found.

AUCTORITAS AUCTUS AUCUPO AUDACIA AUDEO AUDIENS – AUCTORITAS AUCTUS AUCUPO AUDACIA AUFERO AUGEO – AUCTORITAS AUCTUS AUCUPO AUDACIA AUFERO – AUCTORITAS AUCTUS AUCUPO AUDACIA AUDIENS – AUFERO AUGEO AURIFER AUSCULTATIO – AUFERO AUGEO AUREUS AURICULA – AUFERO AUGEO AUSCULTATOR AUSPEX – AUDEO AUDIRE – AUDEO AUDIRE AVIARIUM – AUDEO AUDIENS AUREUS AURICULA – AUDEO AUDIENS AUCTORITAS AUCTUS AUCUPO – AURA AURARIA AUFERO AUGEO – AUREUS AURICULA AUDEO AUGEO



The authority of the bird increased – and the boldness of the bird was heard – I take away the audacity that increases my authority – I take away the audacity of the bird with increased authority – the authority of the bird increased by hearing the boldness – I take away and increase the auscultation of the goldsmith – I disperse and increase the golden ear – I take away and increase the listener’s auspiciousness – I dare to hear – I dare to listen to the birds – I dare to listen with golden ears – I dare to listen to the increased authority of the bird – I disperse the golden breeze and increase it – I dare to grow golden ears!

DAS ROTA ME APIBUS
DAS ROTA MEL APIBUS
DAT ROTA ME APIBUS
DEA ROSA MEL APIBUS
DAT ROTA MELICUS APERTE
DAS ROXA MELICUS APERTE
DAS ROTA MELICUS APERTE
DEI ROTA MELICUS APERTE
DEI ROTA MEL IGNUS APERTE
DEI ROTA MEL IGNIS APERTE
DEI ROSA MEL IGNIS APERTE
DEI ROSA MEL IGNIS APIBUS
DEA ROSA MELA APIBUS
DEI ROSA MELA APIBUS
DEI ROSA MAL A PIUS
DU ROSA MEL APIBUS

Give me the wheel of the bees
You give a wheel of honey to the bees
The wheel gives me the bees
The goddess rose honey for the bees
Gives the navel wheel openly
You give the red honey open
You give the navel wheel open
The navel wheel of the god is open
The wheel of the god is clearly on fire
The wheel of the god is open to fire
The honey of the rose of god is open to fire
The rose of a god is the honey of fire to the bees
The goddess of the rose and the apple of the bees
God’s rose is the apple of the bees
God’s rose is evil from the pious
Two roses and the honey bees

The rose of any god is the honey of fire to the bees - a hive for 80 voices

(FR) VOX est un motet contemporain à quatre voix, inspiré de l’écriture chorale de la Renaissance, entièrement composé à partir de glossolalies vocales, sans texte. La voix y est démultipliée, tressée, incarnée dans les timbres d’un quatuor SATB (soprano, alto, ténor, basse). Pas d’accompagnement, pas d’effets cosmétiques. Juste l’essentiel : une émission vocale simulée, synthétique — et pourtant, l’émotion y est étrangement vivante.

Cette pièce n’est pas le fruit d’une seule génération IA, mais le résultat d’un tissage patient de fragments : voix recréées, sélectionnées, harmonisées, puis réunies dans un même souffle.

Entre contrepoint, pulsation et résonance luthérienne, VOX explore la texture pure de la voix — même artificielle — et son pouvoir d’évocation.
Ce n’est pas un chant sacré, mais l’écho d’un sacré décontextualisé, flottant dans le vide sémiotique d’un monde IA.

(EN):VOX is a contemporary motet for four voices, inspired by Renaissance choral writing and entirely composed from vocal glossolalia — no lyrics, no semantic content. The voice is multiplied, braided, and embodied in the textures of an SATB quartet: soprano, alto, tenor, bass. No instrumental support, no cosmetic effects. Just the essential: a simulated human emission, synthetic — yet strangely alive.

This piece is not the product of a single AI generation, but the result of a careful weaving of fragments: recreated voices, selected, harmonized, then merged into a common breath.

Between counterpoint, pulse, and a subtle Lutheran resonance, VOX explores the raw texture of the human voice — even artificial — and its evocative power. It is not sacred music, but the echo of a displaced sacredness, floating in the semiotic void of an AI-driven world.

Located at St. Gregory the Great Catholic Church, St. Gregory’s Hall is a ministry of Mary, Mother of God Parish in Chicago that promotes Catholic culture through sacred art and music, theology and social teaching, and a vibrant parish community. Our programs nourish the faith of parishioners and invite others to encounter Jesus Christ through beauty, goodness, and truth.

Ori Shalva, aka the Makharashvili family, is a band like no other. They formed out of a love for Georgian polyphony, and despite being 9,000 kilometers away from its homeland, for the past 2 decades they have nurtured the rare and intricate tradition of Georgian polyphony—an ancient musical form recognized by UNESCO as an intangible masterpiece of humanity. Their masterful performances offer a rare glimpse of the breadth of this  living tradition that remains largely inaccessible outside of Georgia. It is only recently that Ori Shalva’s artistry has begun to attract the attention of a small but growing circle of music producers and facilitators who recognize its profound cultural and musical value and the skills this family has to authentically present it.

Ori Shalva will be releasing their first EP and presenting their first concert as a family in Toronto on April 12 2025. For more information visit www.MusiCampTO.com/OriShalva

Ori Shalva performs mostly as a trio but on special occasions - and when they go to Georgia - the youngest, Gabo, joins in.

(FR) Biographie 
Entre ombre et lumière, souffle et silence.
Explorateur sonore aux racines multiples, je compose des fragments d’univers,
des pièces expérimentales portées par une voix non lexicale, sans discours, mais jamais sans émotion. Chaque titre est une énigme ouverte.
Je ne cherche pas la norme, mais l’écho intérieur, l’émotion à partager.
Écouter, c’est traverser. Composer, c’est traduire l’inconnu.

Cette très belle citation de Michel-Ange résume ma façon de penser :
« J’ai vu un ange dans le marbre et j’ai seulement ciselé jusqu’à l’en libérer. »

(EN) Biography
Between shadow and light, breath and silence.
A sound explorer with many roots, I compose fragments of universes — experimental pieces carried by a non-lexical voice, without words yet never without emotion. Each track is an open enigma.
I do not seek the norm, but the inner echo — the emotion to be shared.
To listen is to cross through. To compose is to translate the unknown.

This beautiful quote by Michelangelo captures my way of thinking:
“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”

Vaya Quartet is a Bulgarian vocal group that brings traditional folk music to life through rich harmonies. Blending voices with passion and precision, we celebrate cultural heritage and connect people through the power of song.

My cross-genre music is born from a fundamental creative need to express my observations on the theatre of life and the world around me. At times, it allows me to construct a soundscape of a more desirable world, offering an escape from the often-ugly reality we face. For me, music is inherently rewarding; the journey of making and producing it is an intensely personal and profoundly satisfying experience.

I am a composer and writer, based in Norwich, England. Please find more about my work at my website - https://www.seeingisbeveiling.com My music is published by Universal Edition, and my books are published by the artel press. https://www.universaledition.com/en/Contacts/Michael-John-Gerard-Higgins/ https://www.theartelpress.co.uk/shop/artists-book/by-unseen-hands/

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