The power of sound in Janet Cardiff’s “Forty Part Motet”

A 2025 video in the Museum of Modern Art’s series Art and the Senses looks at the role of sound in the work of Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller. Focused on The Forty Part Motet (A reworking of “Spem in Alium,” by Thomas Tallis 1556) from 2001, the episode records the origins and development of the piece, and Cardiff and Bures Miller’s larger approach to making art.