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Brian Ferneyhough Quotes
Actually, most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own compositional practice, so I should be careful about generalizing lest they come back to haunt me. - Brian Ferneyhough Quotes
As a necessary prerequisite to the creation of new forms of expression one might, I suppose, argue that current sensibilities respond uniquely to the notion of exhaustion as exhaustion, although that does de facto seem rather limiting. - Brian Ferneyhough Quotes
By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow. - Brian Ferneyhough Quotes
Certainly being in California has encouraged a sustained commitment to rethinking the nature, purposes, and relevance of the contemporary arts, specifically music, for a society which by and large seems to manage quite well without them. - Brian Ferneyhough Quotes
Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries. - Brian Ferneyhough Quotes
From a previous generation, Zimmermann comes to mind as someone who took a lot of conscious risks upon himself in battling the Angel of History. - Brian Ferneyhough Quotes
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. - Brian Ferneyhough Quotes
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. - Brian Ferneyhough Quotes
I assume that relative ratios between different-length measures are to some significant degree appreciable in and of themselves. - Brian Ferneyhough Quotes
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. - Brian Ferneyhough Quotes
I dont want to seen to be preaching: of course, any artist is free to approach previous materials in any way that seems interesting. - Brian Ferneyhough Quotes
I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of variation much as if measure lengths were concrete musical material. - Brian Ferneyhough Quotes
I suppose that the scope and implications of such forces have rendered my personal accounting ritual pretty much obsolete. Thats how things sometimes go. - Brian Ferneyhough Quotes
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. - Brian Ferneyhough Quotes
Im perplexed, though, by your application of the term negative to my figural imagery. - Brian Ferneyhough Quotes
If nothing is at risk, nothing is established. - Brian Ferneyhough Quotes
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 Ferneyhough Quotes
In any case, the fewer boundaries that exist hindering free movement between all forms of articulate human cognition, the better. - Brian Ferneyhough Quotes
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. - Brian Ferneyhough Quotes
In my own recent String Trio I attempt to superimpose two quite different sets of formal strategies, both of which, ultimately, refer back to historical precedent. - Brian Ferneyhough Quotes
It is still true that it is easier to compose a poem in the form of a manual for adjusting a VCR than it is to write a piece using just tuning as a symphony. - Brian Ferneyhough Quotes
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. - Brian Ferneyhough Quotes
Naturally enough, I couldnt have foreseen the vast sea change which has come upon that scene as a result of German reunification and associated events. - Brian Ferneyhough Quotes
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. - Brian Ferneyhough Quotes
Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply. - Brian Ferneyhough Quotes
So: were all tired. Now what? Manuscripts written in Club Med? - Brian Ferneyhough Quotes
Sometimes one can be so closely involved with things that the larger context is lost to view. - Brian Ferneyhough Quotes
The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics. - Brian Ferneyhough Quotes
The idea of machine assemblage is, especially, very alien to my sensibility, since it suggests a relative indifference of the strata to one another during the process of construction. - Brian Ferneyhough Quotes
The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning. - Brian Ferneyhough Quotes
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