“some celebrated composers fade after death, their fame dependent on personality and on networks of influence. Harvey will only ascend” (Alex Ross, 5th December 2012)
“One hears in these synthetic sounds both the natural materials from which they came and something previously unknown.” The New York Times (Bernard Holland), 17 November 1999
“It has some extraordinary music: just 20 instruments are involved, but the electronics send an infinite variety of sonic timbres swishing round the theater. Yet it also has an earnestness… the most exciting music is Harvey’s underscoring of Wanger’s agonized rants – music that suggests body and soul splintering apart.” (The times, Richard Morrison, 9th June 2013)
