Brian Ferneyhough

In any case, the fewer boundaries that exist hindering free movement between all forms of articulate human cognition, the better. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#articulate #better #between #boundaries #case

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

#arise #chaotic #come #contact #fluctuations

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

#back #both #different #different sets #formal

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

#compose #easier #form #just #manual

Naturally enough, I couldn't have foreseen the vast sea change which has come upon that scene as a result of German reunification and associated events. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#change #come #enough #events #foreseen

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

#begun #composers #diminishing #further #i

So: we're all tired. Now what? Manuscripts written in Club Med? ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#manuscripts #now #tired #written

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

#another #assemblage #construction #during #especially

The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#nine #past #period #questioning #represented

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

#both #came #canon #composers #depended