Sonia Boyce

*For you, only you*, 2007. Installation view: Manchester Art Gallery, UK, 2018. Photo: Mike Pollard.

*For you, only you*, (production still), 2007. Photo: Stuart Bunce

For you, only you orchestrates an unlikely meeting between an early music consort, Alamire, and a contemporary sound artist influenced by Dadaist noise, Mikhail Karikis. The video captures the performance of Karikis’s sound-work, which in turn derives from an encounter between his fractured vocalisations and a deconstructed Renaissance masterpiece – ‘Tu solus qui facis mirabilia/You alone can do wonders’ by the fifteenth-century Franco-Flemish composer Josquin Desprez.

The resulting three-channel video installation becomes a meditation on not only the question of appropriation and where the original exists – and with whom, but also it plays out a micro-battle between different formations of sound.

For you, only you was commissioned by the Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art, University of Oxford, in partnership with the De La Warr Pavilion, Locus+, Milton Keynes Gallery and Model Arts and Niland Gallery and with the support of Arts Council England.,

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Concept Sonia Boyce
Executive Producer Paul Bonaventura
Production Company Newangle Productions Ltd
Producer Peter Mercer
Directors David Bickerstaff and Sonia Boyce
Performers Mikhail Karikis, Alamire Consort
Editor David Bickerstaff
Director of Photography Philip Chavannes
Camera operator Mark French
Sound Recordist Simon Farmer
Film Colourist Clive Mattock
Music Producers Mikhail Karikis and David Skinner
Sound Dub Dom Boucher, Dave Peacock and Classical Communications Ltd
Production Assistants Nathalie Guinamard, Mervin Kissoon, Jonathan Siah

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