The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in New York granted me a Fellowship in composition to conduct research into phonology, computational modelling of the human voice and evolution of music. One important outcome of this work is the piece "Sacra Conversazione", for strings orchestra, percussion and electronics. Here, surreal voices sing in a made-up synthesised language combining utterances from seventeen different languages from all over the world (German, Japanese, Hebrew, English, Spanish, Arabic, Persian and so on) and other fantastic vocal sounds obtained by artificially shri...