40 Part Motet for Karaoke uses Cardiff’s original configuration of a forty channel sound work, arranged in eight groups of five singers, but replaces the original recording of
the choristers with popular songs performed the individual karaoke singers.
The work foregrounds the result of private and amateur acts rather than those of the choristers. In Cardiff’s work, Tallis’s composition is the sole score performed,
whilst in the new work a playlist of popular songs is used, and includes; Fly me to the Moon, by Frank Sinatra; Let it be, by The Beatles; Angels, by Robbie Williams; and Bohemian Rhapsody, by Queen.
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