Jonathan Harvey’s 1980 electroacoustic piece Mortuos plango, vivos voco features compositional strategies with a strong mystical side. Its dualism of life/death elements, both linked to different sound materials (voice and bell respectively), encour...
Jonathan Harvey’s 1980 electroacoustic piece Mortuos plango, vivos voco features compositional strategies with a strong mystical side. Its dualism of life/death elements, both linked to different sound materials (voice and bell respectively), encourages a meditation that involves the listener’s inner dimension, thus providing the basis for a re-humanization of electronic music.