Back in the early days of the 20th century, when spiritualism and surrealism were leading pleasingly parallel yet very active lives, there was a fad for automatic writing. This involved sitting at a ...
French-Canadian composer Claude Vivier (1948-1983) is one of the few composers, perhaps the only one, to use an invented language throughout his entire compositional career. Vivie's use of what he ...
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