Music Takes Flight

Wind Takes Flight: Hildegard x Electronics is a 2025 album by English soprano soloist Julia Sinclair and Dutch electronic musician and composer Marijn Cinjee, released on Nimbus Records. It features the 12th century chants of composer Hildegard of Bingen backed by ambient electronica. The album's title comes from "O ignis spiritus Paracliti", a sequence or liturgical poem by Hildegard. It was commissioned by the Richard Thomas Foundation, with its music first premiering live at the Royal Concertgebouw in December 2024 as part of the Aural Spaces festival. The album was first released in July 2025.