"The Forty Part Motet (2001), a sound installation by Janet Cardiff (Canadian, born 1957), will be the first presentation of contemporary art at The Cloisters. Regarded as the artist's masterwork, and consisting of forty high-fidelity speakers positioned on stands in a large oval configuration throughout the Fuentidueña Chapel, the fourteen-minute work, with a three-minute spoken interlude, will continuously play an eleven-minute reworking of the forty-part motet Spem in alium numquam habui (1556?/1573?) by Tudor composer Thomas Tallis (ca. 1505–1585)."
Metropolitan Museum - Janet Cardiff: The Forty Part Motet
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller | The Forty Part Motet | 2001 (Video)
W - Janet Cardiff
NYT: Moved to Tears at the Cloisters by a Ghostly Tapestry of Music (Play)
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