Channelling the ecstasy of Hildegard von Bingen: "O'Euchari" remixed

Abstract

Abbess Hildegard von Bingen (1098–1179) became an unexpected cult figure in the final decades of the twentieth century, when her life and work were used as the stimulus for numerous cultural products, from imagined autobiographies to film. Her adoption as a quasifeatured artist by creators of electronic dance music (EDM) was surprisingly commercially successful, chiming with Michael Embach’s view that: