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"The words are made up and have no meaning," says Serbian-American composer Aleksandra Vrebalov.
"The piece goes beyond verbal narrative to show how all life on our planet is interconnected."
Vrebalov's "Missa Supratext," a 22-minute work for chorus and string quartet that incorporates bells, Tibetan bowls, and musical saws, has won the 2024 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Music Composition, the Louisville Courier-Journal reports.
The 53-year-old, who moved to the US in 1995 and became a US citizen in 2015, says the work is "unrelated to any religion because the creative force driving all life does not care about culture, language, or religion."
Vrebalov, who has composed more than 90 works, often starts by drawing and painting colorful images reflecting her ideas before converting the images into musical notation, according to the Grawemeyer website.
The annual $100,000 prizes also honor seminal ideas in world order, psychology, education, and religion.
The Grawemeyers will visit Louisville in the spring to accept their awards and give free talks on their winning ideas.
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