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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Also our latest album, Across the Open Spaces goes live on streaming services everywhere on May 23rd, in stereo (on all platforms) and Dolby Atmos (on Apple Music and Tidal.) Pre-save today! 

 

And we hope you'll join us on Saturday, June 14th for our album release show at the Sound Mind Center, with a reception to follow. Ticket information coming soon.

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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 of this set take a similar form: we stand and sing in a circle, inviting audience members to sit in an inner circle of chairs, for a once-in-a-lifetime live surround-sound experience. Each piece is carefully staged to showcase how music moves between our voices.

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At the 2024 Sound Scene festival, we performed the 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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Our gratitude to Renee Gladman for her art above, Plans for Sentences #59, 2018