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Cut Circle: Micropolyphony – Josquin’s Experiments with Scale

Date
Fri May 23rd 2025, 6:30 - 8:00pm
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
Location
The Knoll
660 Lomita Court, Stanford, CA 94305
CCRMA Stage

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.