If the work of art is to continue pursuing the vision of both being in and of the world but nevertheless in some fashion being more than just one more object to the mounting clutter, this is the specific point, I think, where this must be assured.
BRIAN FERNEYHOUGHIn any case, the fewer boundaries that exist hindering free movement between all forms of articulate human cognition, the better.
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Hence my obstinate emphasis on stylistic continuity from work to work rather than specific sibling relationships between the individual work and other members of its stylistic ‘family’ in the world outside.
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When I speak of “cycles,” I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity, if not in the resolving of problems, than at least with respect to the consistency of their capacity to productively irritate.
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In my model, important interference phenomena arise when individual strata come into contact. These chaotic fluctuations are, I suppose, what my music is really about.
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This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion.
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I would not say that I was, these days, a ‘student’ of philosophy, although in my youth I was quite deeply involved with certain aspects of the British pragmatists.
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When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain tendencies I had been observing for several years with increasing disquiet.
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So: we’re all tired. Now what? Manuscripts written in Club Med?
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Sometimes one can be so closely involved with things that the larger context is lost to view.
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I dont see lines of force as being destructive, except to the extent that they are exclusively traceable through observance of the path of distorted material left in their wake.
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In any case, the fewer boundaries that exist hindering free movement between all forms of articulate human cognition, the better.
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Composers dialogue – and obsessively, bitterly argue – with other composers, often over the span of several centuries.
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