Mills College Chapel
Oakland, California, USA
9 March 2012
'welkin', for pipe organ and electronics. Composed and performed by S. Davachi as part of Signal Flow 2012.
Many thanks to James Fei, Les Stuck, and Maggi Payne for their technical assistance and to Rev. Laura Engelken for loan of the instrument and space.
For a proper audio recording: soundcloud.com/sarahdavachi/welkin
welkin: Middle English, 12th century; refers to the vault of the sky, the upper air, the firmament, or the celestial sphere, i.e. the Empyrean. In archaic cosmology, it was thought to be a set of crystal spheres that enclosed the Earth, to which the planets and stars were attached, so it would have been capable of ringing like a bell if one made enough noise.
