Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Cut Circle: Micropolyphony

Cut Circle, a small chorus directed by Stanford music professor Jesse Rodin, is putting on a performance this Friday that I would try to get to if I didn't have a ticket to see Murnau's Nosferatu in San Francisco that evening. It's called "Micropholyphony: Josquin's Experiments with Scale." Here are the details:

Date and Time
Friday May 23rd, 2025
6:30 - 8:00pm
Location
The Knoll
660 Lomita Court, Stanford, CA 94305
CCRMA Stage
About this event

Cut Circle presents 187 syllables in ninety seconds, seventy-four names in eight minutes, and other time-squeezing music from around 1500. The program includes a newly completed motet by Josquin des Prez’s contemporary Jean Richafort, reconstructed from fragmentary sources.

The performance will feature a virtual historical acoustical environment as part of a collaboration between CCRMA (Stanford) and the VALSOUNDS project (University of Oxford/KU Leuven). The event is made possible by the Shenson Fund, CCRMA, the Department of Music, CMEMS, and the France-Stanford Center.

Admission Information

  • Free admission.
Event Sponsor
Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
Department of Music
Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies
France-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies

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