In principio erat Verbum, et Verbum erat apud Deum, et Deus erat Verbum.
Hoc erat in principio apud Deum.
Omnia per ipsum facta sunt: et sine ipso factum est nihil, quod factum est.
In ipso vita erat, et vita erat lux hominum:
et lux in tenebris lucet, et tenebrae eam non comprehenderunt.
using (mostly) computer-generated voices in 24 different languages with 12 male and 12 female speakers, processed by a computer program written in MaxMSP.
Languages
male:
greek
latin
arab
turkish
russian
english
german
dutch
swedish
danish
islandic
spanish
female:
french
polish
czech
hungarian
finish
hebrew
hindi
indonesian
thai
chinese
japanese
korean
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Karlheinz Essl: erat Verbum (2020-2022)
multilingual electronic composition