Across the Open Spaces is forty minutes of unaccompanied choral music that explores distance and confronts loneliness. This is a collection of pieces written for and by KHORIKOS, including commissioned works by Kala Pierson, Evelin Seppar, and Kile Smith, as well as our original arrangements of pieces by Sarah Kirkland Snider, Anna Meredith, Benedetto Marcello, and Hildegard von Bingen.

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We recorded these pieces while standing in a circle around an ambisonic microphone, capturing a balanced sound from all directions, and our performances take a similar form: we sing the set in a circle, inviting audience members to sit in an inner circle of chairs, for a once-in-a-lifetime live surround-sound experience.

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At the 2024 Sound Scene festival, we performed our set in two incredible spaces in the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, including inside Laurie Anderson's Four Talks, with gracious permission from the artist.

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We hope to bring this music to spaces in New York City and elsewhere soon, in celebration of our upcoming album release in stereo and Dolby Atmos!

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Our gratitude to Renee Gladman for her art above, from "Plans for Sentences."