Spaces (first ten sonnets)
Audio recording
06:24
2007



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Spaces was created using the first ten of Shakespeare's sonnets, or rather the spaces between the words.  

The sonnet is essentially a grid of 10 beats/14 lines - a structure which has a mirror in the structure of music.   The placement of the spaces between words was used to determine notes on the C major scale, each chord being a line in the sonnet.