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http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/803362 - Margery’s times: Margery
through the looking glass - This session explores aspects of
time and temporality in the writings of the English mystic,
Margery Kempe (1373-1438), through the medium of a soundscape.
The work draws on text, music and sounds to create an experience
of the past through the ears of the present. In addition to
readings from the Proem, Preface and two books of Kempe, the
soundscape incorporates recordings of medieval music from 1965
and 1975, which are in themselves already historical: Medieval
English Lyrics (Frank Harrison) and Music of the Gothic Era
(David Munrow). The collage of sounds is put together using
layering – an apt correspondence with music of Kempe’s times,
which was primarily linear. In addition, the common medieval
technique of a tenor is used. The use of this structurally
fundamental or 'holding' voice is applied to a key sentence from
the Proem, which is repeated, varied and