TEMPLE (2002)

a soundscape composition for eight digital soundtracks

Temple is an 8-track soundscape composition composed of choral voices that takes place in the reverberant cathedral of San Bartolomeo, in Busseto, Italy. However, lacking any specific Christian reference, the work can be heard as a spiritual voyage in an imaginary temple whose acoustic properties not only reverberate the choral voices but reflect them back as ghostly after-images that suggest an inner space of vast dimensions.
Original voice recordings by counter-tenor David Garfinkle, alto Sue McGowan, and bass Derrick Christian.

Note: the 8-channel version of this work was created with Richmond Sound Design's AudioBox computer-controlled diffusion system.

Temple is available on the Cambridge Street Records CD Spirit Journies (CSR-CD 0701).
Structural Overview
Production Score

Stereo Tape Part

Technical note
The work was mainly realized using Tom Erbe's SoundHack convolution program, with additional material provided by the composer's PODX system which incorporates the DMX-1000 Digital Signal Processor controlled by a PDP Micro-11 computer with software for real-time granular synthesis and signal processing developed by the composer in the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University. The sounds were recorded on 8-track digital tape and the AudioBox, and mixed in the Sonic Research Studio at SFU. Original impulse response file provided by Worldwide Soundspace library, some of which is now available in Peak's "Impulseverb" for OSX.

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