Angelus Domini (1996), 10m00s
This work is based on a gregorian chant. Cipriani writes, “This chant exists in four versions (gregorian, ambrosian, vetero-roman, beneventan) and all four were used as a basic material, the recorded voice is by Giacomo Baroffio, one of the best gregorian chant singers in Europe. I processed the voice with PODX at SFU (Vancouver) and at Edison Studio in Rome. The voice heard here had been recorded in an ancient church near Rome and the bordone and the natural reverberations are part of the material, so as to explore the idea that Gregorian chant is not a monodic chant because the clusters that come out from the reverberation make it a more complex piece, in fact, gregorian chant needs particular spaces to be sung correctly. I tried with my recomposition of the piece, to explore also the idea that gregorian chant is the cradle of many other kinds of mediterranean and middle-eastern musics, so, fragmenting and recomposing was useful to understand its relation with timbre, polyphonic aspects, and relation with profane and ancient popular music.”
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Angelus Domini