Gloria is an immersive 360° sound artwork created by Robert Wilson for Sainte Chapelle, with music by Richard Landry. The installation consists of fifteen speakers, positioned at various locations in the iconic Parisian cathedral. A new software developed by Amadeus and IRCAM, integrating several reverberation and spatialization techniques, allows this "secular mass," in which a child, a woman and a man respond to each other with short excerpts from "De Rerum Natura" by the Latin philosopher Lucretius, to occupy and structure the space in a new way. The voices, together with the music of Richard Landry, resonate in the space of the upper chapel. Gloria echoes the stained glass windows of Sainte Chapelle: the birth of the world, the course of the sun, the soul, the body, the void, and the relationship of humans to the universe, to nature.

The installation can be viewed by pre-booking a time slot at 9:30 AM, 10:30 AM, 12:30 PM, 1:30 PM, 2:30 PM, or 4 PM. Each visit lasts for about 30 minutes.

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