“…I do not know whether he ever attended any services there. He simply took me into the church and we sat down in a pew near the back, on the south side, and just continued to sit there in silence. While we were sitting there a middle-aged woman came into the church, went into one of the pews about halfway up on the north side, and knelt down to pray. Wittgenstein leant over to me and whispered: ‘That is what a church is for”. 

Theodore Redpath Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Student’s Memoir (London: Duckworth). p.44

Great St. Mary's Church, Cambridge, United Kingdom

for 4-8 players
from MAPS OF DISINTEGRATION AND FORGETFULNESS
Will McEvoy, John Hammonds, Maggie Hasspacher, Megan McDevitt, and Ben Willis, double-bass
Performed live at Trinosophes, Detroit, MI, January 22, 2016
Recorded by Colin Tucker and Joel Peterson
Score and program note available here: https://colintucker.wordpress.com/works/maps/

clinamen (2010)

This is a repository of recordings that form part of a larger project entitled 'The Thin Voice of Silence: Wittgenstein and Sound'. This continually developing collection of recordings serves as the first ever 'audio map' of key locations in Wittgenstein's life.

For more information contact Kerry William Purcell @ wittgensteinsound[at]icloud.com

Great St. Mary's Church, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Wittgenstein Sound Project

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