​King's Singers – Full Of Noises

For more than five decades, The King’s Singers have been among the world’s best-known vocal ensembles. At Interfinity, the six singers present Full of Noises, a programme that places the human voice at the centre as a vehicle for language, music and direct expression. Its title comes from Shakespeare’s The Tempest – “Be not afeard, the isle is full of noises” – and sets the stage for a musical journey across centuries, languages and sound worlds.

From English and German Renaissance polyphony through Hildegard von Bingen and Mendelssohn to Ravel, Pärt and contemporary works by James MacMillan and Luciano Berio, the programme unfolds as an unusually wide-ranging panorama. Words are sung, transformed and turned into rhythm and sound: ringing bells meet Shakespeare, medieval song encounters Baltic sound worlds, and the noises of time itself take over in Paul Patterson’s virtuosic Time Piece. Together, these works reveal the extraordinary range of the human voice – and the many ways in which language and sound become inseparable.​​