LARUM — The Music of Hildegard von Bingen Part Two

The Music of Hildegard von Bingen Part Two by Larum  Order on Bandcamp Von Bingen’s music is at Larum’s foundation. Founding member Chet Doxas has described how he was introduced to her legacy when he was studying at McGill University in Montreal, and how her manner of connecting all her experiences and herthinking, writing, and composing into a whole that found expression along multiple paths inspired him. Frank goes back to the duo’s origins and their debut release All the Roads, saying “we felt many aspects of our sound naturally gravitated toward early music, it had a time-worn feel,” though “this was never intentional but just the way it ended up sounding.” Doxas adds, “we share a mutual love for counterpoint, our whole sound is based around that.”What Micah Frank and Doxas are getting at, and what connects contemporary synthesizers and woodwind instruments to a 12th century composer, is that things like counterpoint and the Medieval cantus firmus, a repeated phrase that is a bed