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- "A somewhat distant analogy would be the metric modulations typical of Elliott Carter's music, a ..."
- "A work successfully representing breakdown must also partake inwardly of that same progressive disfunctionality in ..."
- "Actually, I don't really like the term 'experimental' very much. Even if there exist music ..."
- "Actually, most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own ..."
- "Adorno imagines, if I interpret him correctly, the role of aesthetic critical theory to reside ..."
- "An ongoing replay of 'happy exhaustion' by recourse to some form of sampling does not ..."
- "As a necessary prerequisite to the creation of new forms of expression one might, I ..."
- "As in the world of fashion, this often leads to conformity by default, thus creating ..."
- "As so often in life, I think, one comes to a conviction, without being able ..."
- "At a time when the popular media are reveling in an unprecedented access of vernacular ..."
- "Brecht's strategy involves a consciously pre-calculated expulsion of the observer from one zone of otherwise ..."
- "But how would this containment be assured? One could, I suppose, imagine some sort of ..."
- "By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow. "
- "Certainly being in California has encouraged a sustained commitment to rethinking the nature, purposes, and ..."
- "Certainly Deleuze has been important to me since I read his book on Francis Bacon ..."
- "Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span ..."
- "Every work sets itself the goal of bringing history to an end in a catastrophic ..."
- "From a previous generation, Zimmermann comes to mind as someone who took a lot of ..."
- "Hence my obstinate emphasis on stylistic continuity from work to work rather than specific sibling ..."
- "Here I must say that I am not using the word "negative" in any perjorative ..."
- "I am certainly not arguing for the de facto autonomy of the individual work, even ..."
- "I am fascinated by parallel distortions effected on adjacent strata by some form of external ..."
- "I am reminded of a recent Woody Allen film in which a Greek chorus is ..."
- "I assume that relative ratios between different-length measures are to some significant degree appreciable in ..."
- "I do agree, though, that the issue of 'active interpretation' is very much alive and ..."
- "I don't really hear meter as a form of pulse hierarchization but rather as a ..."
- "I don't see 'lines of force' as being destructive, except to the extent that they ..."
- "I don't think that composers can off-load this particular responsibility onto the performer; it is ..."
- "I don't want to seen to be preaching: of course, any artist is free to ..."
- "I doubt if I would have invested the effort involved in producing that collection had ..."
- "I feel that Early Music interpretation has recently been doing a lot of work at ..."
- "I feel very grateful to San Diego for enabling me to keep intensely functioning as ..."
- "I find that such 'irrational' measures serve as a useful buffer between local changes of ..."
- "I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, ..."
- "I have begun reflecting these fundamental ratios in terms of patterned cutting between a number ..."
- "I have come provisionally to feel that I have reassessed certain problematic aspects of my ..."
- "I have myself been stimulated by the confrontation of mutually incompatible realms of discourse in ..."
- "I have myself emphasized the fact that no notation is value-neutral. There are many scores ..."
- "I have no desire to employ half-digested notions of Marxist criticism to expose social assumptions ..."
- "I imagine you are perfectly right in suggesting that some categories of innovation remain largely ..."
- "I still remain reasonably persuaded that alienation is more efficaciously achieved by deconstructing and reassembling ..."
- "I suppose that the scope and implications of such forces have rendered my personal accounting ..."
- "I suppose, ultimately, I find beautiful whatever stimulates, brings forth positive inner turmoil, makes me ..."
- "I would not say that I was, these days, a 'student' of philosophy, although in ..."
- "I'm perplexed, though, by your application of the term 'negative' to my figural imagery. "
- "If nothing is at risk, nothing is established. "
- "If one examines major developments in art over the last 150 years or so, one ..."
- "If the work of art is to continue pursuing the vision of both being in ..."
- "In a sense, the whole issue of autonomy is more aktuell here than in more ..."
- "In any case, the fewer boundaries that exist hindering free movement between all forms of ..."
- "In my model, important interference phenomena arise when individual strata come into contact. These chaotic ..."
- "In my own recent String Trio I attempt to superimpose two quite different sets of ..."
- "In spite of all his extremely innovatory techniques, I would certainly hesitate to think of ..."
- "In the 90s, I have been at IRCAM annually, and working on Patchwork's until then ..."
- "In the free play of deracinated signifiers, what essential element is being brought by the ..."
- "It has been extremely instructive to me to listen to a broad spectrum of music ..."
- "It is frequently difficult to discern if it is the transgressive example of great works ..."
- "It is precisely the moment of collision of work as irreducible quiddity and its adjunct ..."
- "It is still true that it is easier to compose a poem in the form ..."
- "It would probably be extremely difficult to find an artist whose roots were not, to ..."
- "Leaving Great Britain in my mid-twenties did not permit me to erase whatever had brought ..."
- "Luckily, outstanding compositions largely set their own rules of reception, so we are spared the ..."
- "Meter represents a very useful form of middle ground mediational compartmentalization with respect to perceived ..."
- "More, perhaps, than in any other art form, music feeds off contemporary perceptions (and creative ..."
- "My own position is, that it is largely up to the work itself to suggest ..."
- "Naturally enough, I couldn't have foreseen the vast sea change which has come upon that ..."
- "One has to remember that language, as the medium of everyday communication and human concern, ..."
- "One presumes that the listener of the day would have approached stylistic cross-referencing and assimilation ..."
- "Other composers have taken this particular technique much further than I in the meantime, with ..."
- "Part of the problem is setting up the rules to be broken in the first ..."
- "Probably what I meant to express was the sense that meter has long been a ..."
- "Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the ..."
- "Similarly, the delineation and development of my core aesthetic concerns has largely come about by ..."
- "So: we're all tired. Now what? Manuscripts written in Club Med? "
- "Sometimes one can be so closely involved with things that the larger context is lost ..."
- "Still, it is true that any conscious critique implies the transcension of the critiqued, even ..."
- "That composers aiming at this 'flat image' are working at one step removed from the ..."
- "The expressive power of so much restlessly energized negativity nevertheless conspires to transcend the notional ..."
- "The hazardous equilibrium of a work embracing a foreign substance - one alien to the ..."
- "The idea of 'machine assemblage' is, especially, very alien to my sensibility, since it suggests ..."
- "The more insignificant the influence of global conventions (as in a lot of the music ..."
- "The more original the material, the less it is capable of calling forth that rich ..."
- "The most likely reaction would be a staggered hierarchy of degrees of commitment ranging down ..."
- "The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning. "
- "The recent appearance of my Collected Writings has of course tended to mark a psychological ..."
- "The same might be said of any modulation in tonal common practice, to the extent ..."
- "The so-called 'irrational' measure lengths, i.e. those based on beats expressed in terms of fractions ..."
- "The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, ..."
- "There are juxtapositional strategies of a specifically autobiographical nature (as in many works by Schnittke ..."
- "There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and ..."
- "These days, I tend to read philosophy much like I might read other forms of ..."
- "This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and ..."
- "What effect these nine years have had or will have on my composing I really ..."
- "What eternally fascinates me personally is to occasionally re-experience the shocking newness of a handful ..."
- "What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the ..."
- "Whatever transformations my creative self may have undergone in the interim have been counterpointed, as ..."
- "When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance ..."
- "When I speak of "cycles," I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity, if ..."
- "While there is an undeniable visceral attraction to the slow death theory - the contemporary ..."
- "Why, in such a case, should the performer essay any sort of considered approach at ..."
- "With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct, although ..."
