Lusitano Remixed
Renaissance Vocal Music, Recomposed in Surround Sound
“an immersive, spatialised experience, soaking you in a soaring surround-sound while also allowing you to get up-close and intimate with individual voices.”
Vicente Lusitano (c.1520-c.1561) was likely the first published Black composer. An African-Portuguese priest and music theorist, his extraordinary and distinctive music was widely celebrated in his lifetime. Largely neglected until recently, however, Lusitano’s music is only just beginning to be performed again.
For Lusitano Remixed, we collaborated with Classical Remix to record new music by award-winning composer Roderick Williams OBE based on Lusitano’s masterpiece ‘Inviolata’, which Williams reimagined as a surround sound multi-speak installation. Each of the eight speakers played one singer’s voice so that, by moving throughout the space, it was possible to get inside the choir’s layered, polyphonic performance.
Classical Remix is a collective of composers, musicians, writers and performers, reimagining historical music through innovative events, recordings, and multi-media projects.
Tour dates
Samuel Worth Chapel, Sheffield 10 - 13 February 2022
Assembly House, Norwich 22 - 24 March 2022
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham 15 - 28 April 2022
East Quay, Watchet 3 May - 15 June 2022
St George’s, Bristol 16 - 27 June 2022
Supported by The Marchus Trust and Arts Council England