Come Home Again

A Choral Sculpture at the Tate Modern Garden commissioned by Cartier and made with guidance from the London Wildlife Trust. Open now 10am till 10pm until 1st October with choral evensong at 7pm every evening: free and open to all: link in bio.

A dome originally meant a home. The work invites us to see, hear, and feel our home, our city as an interconnected web of species and cultures, to learn and remember the names and sing those under threat into continued existence.
We are losing languages as fast as we are losing species: the diversity of the ethnosphere is endangered in parallel with that of the biosphere. The languages sung within the work are echoed throughout the immersive sound space by The London Bulgarian Choir, London African Gospel Choir, South African Cultural Gospel Choir, The Sixteen, Tenebrae, Southwark Cathedral Merbecke Choir and The Choir with No Name include Xhosa, Zulu, Latin, and a range of Bulgarian and African dialects.

Link in bio for details of the choral performances including the sources of the texts by John Seed, Joanna Macy, David Abram, and Simon Barnes, that Es is reading each evening in the voiceovers between the choirs and bird solo

Polyphonia had the rare opportunity to record the acoustics of St Paul's Cathedral and apply that sound to the sculpture's voice.

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