A tool kit for voices (SATB solo up to 20 singers) containing audio-scores and written parts,
with text excerpts from Anne Waldman, Iovis.
Minimum duration 7:30 minutes up to 15-20 minutes.
This piece is an experiment and a sketch which is being revised and rebuilt. In May 2012, I had the opportunity to conduct rehearsals, experiments and try two different performance structures with the vocal ensemble EXAUDI. The kit offers a variety of possibilities for performance for different types of vocal ensembles.
The electronic setting of the audio score via Ableton on my computer allows me to change the piece very quickly, I can even do that during the live performance.
The title is a Latin word combination of cantus, that means sound, song, also chant and magic spell (magic as something that changes, transforms an environment) and the adjective foliatus meaning folded, having many leaves or folds, or pages, like a book, a tree—or mille-feuille pastry. So the title could be translated to “with folded sound” or “through manifold song”.
Some pages of the score. The parts were separately prerecorded with professional singers.
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