大象传媒

Speakings for large orchestra with electronics, by the late Jonathan Harvey, performed by the 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ilan Volkov. It was jointly commissioned by the 大象传媒 for the 2008 大象传媒 Proms, with Radio France and IRCAM, where Jonathan Harvey spent much time working on new ways of integrating electronics and live instruments. In this work, Harvey 'gives voice' to the orchestra, using a special programme he developed in Paris. Instrumental sounds are captured and transformed to create the characteristic components through which we identify speech and human utterance, which Harvey believed to be fundamental to life and which could transcend it through a 'pure language' toward which the work strives at its end.