Faster than Sound: Earthquake Mass - Aldeburgh Festival

The Flemish composer Antoine Brumel’s Et ecce terrae motus or Earthquake Mass is one of the most extraordinarily ambitious and flamboyant works of the Renaissance period. With the piece now incomplete as the only surviving copy of the score has rotted away, the Aldeburgh Festival has commissioned the multi-disciplinary artist Russell Haswell, who creates extreme and transporting electronic sound, to respond to and complete the original as part of our Faster Than Sound series. Here he collaborates with Festival favourites James Weeks and Exaudi (vocal ensemble), who bring Brumel’s 12-part masterpiece to reverberating life.