"Sundayalysis" genre: Experimental Classical
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	Sundayalysis is a piece made up of the dismembered parts of recordings in a Catholic and an Anglican church on a single Sunday morning. The singing is from a service featuring gregorian chant and a motet, and the bells and ropes are from the bell tower at Christ Church, Elbow Park. (The sound of straining ropes was taken from the bell chamber itself, and the sound of the bells was taken from hanging the mike out the window.) The piece was compiled on a Macintosh computer in the Electronic Music Lab at the University of Calgary
	MP3.com CD: Mostly Harmless - buy it! CD: Mostly Harmless Credits: The Gregorian Chant Choir of Calgary was led by Stephan Bonfield. The cantor was James Hume. Steve Hansen Smythe sang in the choir, and has also been a change ringer at Christ Church, Elbow Park for over two decades.
	Story Behind the Song Since I was a member both of a gregorian chant choir in a Catholic setting and a band of bell ringers in an Anglican setting, but was not personally religious, I wanted to explore and juxtapose sounds heard in each of the two churches and manipulate them so their context was lost. For example, the motet starts "Ave Maria" but it takes the entire piece before you hear the "ve". "Libera nos" (free us, as in "deliver us from evil") is used extensively, but out of context, free us from what? Single syllables were taken out of other words; Deo (or Dei) is reduced to De, and miserere is reduced to "erere" simply because I loved the rolled r sound. The backwards "amen"s that appear with backwards bells is a joke - stereotypic zealots suspect popular music of incorporating such elements, so I've given them something to discover Lyrics Ave (spans entire piece, with "ve" only appearing at the end) libera nos De (from Deo) erere (from miserere) amen (backwards)

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