Brian Ferneyhough quotes - page 2

So: we're all tired. Now what? Manuscripts written in Club Med? (Brian Ferneyhough)
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.' View quote
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I don't 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. View quote
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I don't like listening to my music, not even new pieces. Generally, they sound pretty much like I expected them to sound, so it's what I wanted, and that's it. View quote
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I am certainly not arguing for the de facto autonomy of the individual work, even though there is much to be said for making the attempt to see it in that light as one facet of the reception process. View quote
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I'm perplexed, though, by your application of the term 'negative' to my figural imagery. View quote
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With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct, although I am reluctant to see individual achievement reduced to archetypes. View quote
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My own position is, that it is largely up to the work itself to suggest the nature of these referential points without dimensions in and through the processes by which the distance between them is maintained. View quote
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Why, in such a case, should the performer essay any sort of considered approach at all? View quote
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Other composers have taken this particular technique much further than I in the meantime, with the result that the Law of Diminishing Returns has begun to apply. View quote
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Brian Ferneyhough

Brian Ferneyhough - Image
Photo: Tommy Boy, CC BY-SA 4.0
Occupation: British Composer
Born: January 16, 1943
Quotes count: 35

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