It’s hard to write about Janet Cardiff’s sound installation The Forty Part Motet without devolving into superlatives. Previous installations in New York at PS1 and the Cloisters garnered reviews that ...

Janet Cardiff talks about sound in such physical terms that one almost forgets she is describing something without tangible mass. Yet in conversation with the world-renowned Canadian sound artist, who ...

There are a lot of different things going on in “The Forty Part Motet,” Janet Cardiff’s majestic and entrancing sonic installation that is in residence at Gallery 308 in Fort Mason Center through ...

The Forty Part Motet (2001), an audiovisual installation by Canadian artist Janet Cardiff, consists in forty loudspeakers arranged in an oval; they play an audio loop of Spem in Alium, a well-known ...

Canadian artist Janet Cardiff’s sound installation “The Forty Part Motet” lasts just 14 minutes, but the experience is so profound that visitors will be thinking about it for long after. “The Forty ...

WILLIAMSTOWN — What does a perfect work of art look like? It depends whom you ask. The best art says different things to different people, and leaves room for the viewer to inhabit it in a way all ...

That mid-November afternoon, my head was lost in images of Kalashnikovs and shattered glass and young people slaughtered by the dozens in Paris. The world felt fragile and uncertain, and like many, I ...

The Canadian artist Janet Cardiff’s achingly beautiful polyphonic sound piece, “Forty Part Motet” (2010), based on a choral work by the Tudor composer Thomas Tallis, finds its ideal setting in an apse ...

If there’s one thing you shouldn’t pass up this holiday season, it’s the opportunity to experience The Forty Part Motet at the Fort Mason Center on San Francisco’s waterfront. While an ...

It is modestly called a “sound installation” — 40 audio speakers on stands, arranged in an oval and facing the center of the room at a former repair shop in a decommissioned military facility on San ...