ABSTRACT
Philippe Manoury’s opera, titled K … after Franz Kafka’s The Trial, combines electronic elements with singers and full orchestra. This analysis employs an historical–cultural approach to explore the links between Kafka and Jewish mysticism, examining the technology, serial processes, musical form, and semiotics used in Manoury’s K. … Text, image, video, and score examples contribute to the analysis, which integrates both acoustic and electronic elements. 2
