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A Loss of Sharp Focus (Resonance of a Mass)

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This track is made from a piece of music by the Renaissance composer Josquin Desprez: The Agnus Dei from his Missa La sol fa re mi.

The musical syllables La-Sol-Fa-Re-Mi correspond to the notes A-G-F-D and E. In this Agnus Dei (Lamb of God) Josquin uses the Sol fa re mi riff at many different speeds and in many different variations, layered upon each other in counterpoint. When I first heard it it reminded me of early to mid-twentieth century serialist music and minimalist music in the way it combines a small amount of musical material in many different permutations.

'A Loss of Sharp Focus’ doesn’t have the sort of intricacy of carefully composed play that’s in Josquin’s Agnus Dei; instead the music has been time-stretched, pitch-shifted, layered and resonated to become a sort of echo of the music across time: the reverberations of Josquin’s piece in resonant spaces over the centuries.

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from A Loss of Sharp Focus (Resonance of a Mass), released April 7, 2021
James Michael McCarthy - Voice and Sound Processing

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CERFILIC London, UK

Ambient sounds with the slow and sudden changes of weather systems. Former member of Canadian Band ‘The Hidden Cameras’, London-based musician Jamie Michael McCarthy studied and performed with the composer Gavin Bryars. He makes music under the name Cerfilic: expansive, meditative atmospheres mixing strings with other instruments and environmental sounds and sound processing .

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