From Andreas Vesalius’ groundbreaking De Fabrica Humani Corporis’ to the drawings of Da Vinci and Dürer, the 16th century heralded a new fascination with the human figure.  Human dissection transformed our understanding of anatomy, and the body became the subject of scientific and artistic fixation.

Of The Body marries a major new song cycle by Dan Walker with some of the most rabelaisian examples of Renaissance repertoire. Drawing on Buxtehude’s masterpiece, ‘Membra Jesu Nostri’, Walker’s Of the Body comprises six movements, each devoted to an anatomical part: the eyes, the hands, the mouth, the feet, the blood, and finally, the heart. A musical dissection of sorts, Of the Body traverses sex, sensuality, the senses and more, exploring what it means to be embodied in a digital age, our relationship to our corporeal form; our flesh and blood.

Artists                   Luminescence Chamber Singers
                                                     AJ America, mezzo soprano
                                                     Dan Walker, tenor/composer
                                                     Veronica Milroy, soprano
                                                     Rachel Mink, soprano
                                                     Alasdair Stretch, bass
                                                     Lucien Fischer, baritone

                                    Roland Peelman AM, conductor