Response: Flying to Valencia

You are on to something.  I encourage you to follow this vision. 

William Byrd’s O Gloriosa Domina is exquisite.  I feel a great sense of breadth and emotion from just three voices—rather amazing.  Reminds me of a Pandora station I have been listening to lately called Serbian Chants (Byzantine Choirs, Gregorian Chants, and the like).   It is reminiscent of going to Catholic church as a kid.  I always did kinda like the ritual and the stained glass and the sound…rather otherworldly.  I’m not sure why I started listening to this lately—and it is mostly a background to my work, not the forefront of my attention—but I connect to its energy, it’s mood.  The music of voices.

My ignorance of music is vast.  However I’m enjoying learning new things through this collaboration.  I googled “turangalila” and was lead to the symphony of Olivier Messiaen, and this, per Wikipedia: 

“The title of the work, and those of its movements, were a late addition to the project. They were first
described by Messiaen in a diary entry in early 1948.^[4] He derived the title from two Sanskrit words, turanga and lîla, which roughly translate into English as "love song and hymn of joy, time, movement, rhythm, life, and death",^[7] and described the joy of Turangalîla as "superhuman, overflowing, dazzling and abandoned".  

The bold is mine--the parts where I find relationship to the microcosmos.  In Be Love Now Ram Dass speaks of the lila as the divine play, with the devotee as God's partner in the divine dance.  He also writes. "All planes exist within the One.  Paradoxically, the One is also a plane of consciousness.  But from within the One there's no subjective experiencer, because the One can only experience itSelf. That's the paradox, the mystery of existence that creates the play of forms, the dance, or lila.  A perfected being is no longer an actor in the play moving in and out of planes, going up or coming down.  The subjective self has disappeared in the merging of subject and object, the One."

I also looked up motet, which is most simply described as “A polyphonic composition based on a sacred text and usually sung without accompaniment.”  Which, of course meant I had to look up polyphonic (also interesting), and so on. 

This idea makes me think of how you used the voice as music and form for SpoonTree:

Sound for SpoonTree  

Please link more of Byrd’s motets, or other similarly inspiring music.