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Ghostly Psalms: Draw On, Sweet Night

from Ghostly Psalms by Philip Blackburn

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May Week on the Backs, sitting in punts by Trinity’s Wren Library. The jungle is far away; we are in Capability Brown’s improved version of nature. It is a balmy June evening, but we are singing madrigals on the Cam (is that water flowing uphill?), drifting away into the Cambridge night, transitioning into the enveloping gloom where dreams go to listen.
Draw on, sweet night, best friend unto those cares
That do arise from painful melancholy.
My life so ill through want of comfort fares,
That unto thee I consecrate it wholly.
Sweet night, draw on! My griefs when they be told
To shades and darkness find some ease from paining.
And while thou all in silence dost enfold,
I then shall have best time for my complaining.
- John Wilbye, 1609

This, and other recorded fragments from Hildegard of Bingen and Compline chants to Tallis’s 40-part Spem in Alium, appear as though you are falling asleep and notice another distant narrative about to take over. We descend into a period of Rapid Ear Movement as the brain unwinds and tidies its reliquary, mixing memory and desire, polishing its trophies for the next day. The musical samples are triggered in performance by wearing an EEG/EKG sensor connected to a Max/MSP patch that responds to brainwave activity and muscle movement.

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from Ghostly Psalms, released March 27, 2021
Featuring Philip Blackburn, Ellen Fullman, Teresa Wong, Wild Music Chorus,
Clare College Choir, Sisters of Notre Dame, Maria Jette, Donald Engstrom,
Carrie Henneman Shaw, Andy Lo, Gary Verkade, Lars Sjöstedt

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Philip Blackburn Saint Paul, Minnesota

Philip Blackburn was born in Cambridge, England, and studied music there and at the University of Iowa with Kenneth Gaburo. He is a public artist specializing in sound — a composer/environmental sound-artist. Blackburn’s works have been heard in ships’ harbors, state fairs, forests, and coming out of storm sewers, as well as in galleries, parking lots, and on concert stages.

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