Dufourt: Antiphysis - Ferneyhough: Funérailles - Harvey: Mortuos plango, vivos voco - Höller: Arcus

York Höller and Jonathan Harvey were also among Boulez and Eötvös’s earliest collaborators at Ircam. Höller’s Arcus was premiered at the inauguration of IRCAM’s screening space; this work required the orchestra’s musicians to record short instrumental motifs that were then transformed in multiple ways through a computer program designed by the composer. As for the latter’s Mortuos plango, vivos voco, it is a striking and hypnotic work in which Harvey recorded the voice of his son - a chorister at Winchester Cathedral - and the church’s great bell, whose rich harmonic spectrum served as compositional material.