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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
About
Actually
Back
Be Careful
Careful
Come
Directly
Haunt
Lead
Less
Lest
Me
More
More Or Less
Most
My Own
Own
Practice
Public
Say
Should
Things
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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
Although
Argue
Creation
Current
Does
Exhaustion
Expression
Facto
Forms
Limiting
Might
Necessary
New
New Forms
Notion
Prerequisite
Rather
Respond
Seem
Sensibilities
Suppose
Uniquely
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By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow.
~ Brian Ferneyhough
Anyhow
Instructions
Like
Many
Poems
Read
Reason
Sets
Translation
Weird
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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
Arts
Being
California
Certainly
Commitment
Contemporary
Encouraged
Large
Manage
Music
Nature
Purposes
Quite
Relevance
Seems
Society
Specifically
Sustained
Them
Well
Which
Without
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Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries.
~ Brian Ferneyhough
Argue
Centuries
Composers
Dialogue
Often
Other
Over
Several
Span
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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.
~ Brian Ferneyhough
Between
Continuity
Emphasis
Family
Hence
Individual
Members
Obstinate
Other
Outside
Rather
Relationships
Sibling
Specific
Stylistic
Than
Work
World
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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.
~ Brian Ferneyhough
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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.
~ Brian Ferneyhough
Being
Destructive
Distorted
Except
Extent
Force
Left
Lines
Material
Observance
Path
See
Through
Wake
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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
Compose
Concrete
Each
Entire
Form
Frequently
Material
Measure
Metric
Modified
Much
Musical
Out
Piece
Revolution
Some
Structure
Variation
Were
Where
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I suppose that the scope and implications of such forces have rendered my personal accounting ritual pretty much obsolete. That's how things sometimes go.
~ Brian Ferneyhough
Accounting
Forces
Go
How
Implications
Much
Obsolete
Personal
Pretty
Rendered
Ritual
Scope
Sometimes
Suppose
Things
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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.
~ Brian Ferneyhough
Although
Aspects
British
Certain
Days
Deeply
Involved
Philosophy
Quite
Say
Student
Would
Youth
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I'm perplexed, though, by your application of the term 'negative' to my figural imagery.
~ Brian Ferneyhough
Application
Imagery
Negative
Perplexed
Term
Though
Your
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If nothing is at risk, nothing is established.
~ Brian Ferneyhough
Established
Nothing
Risk
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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
Art
Assured
Being
Both
Clutter
Continue
Fashion
I Think
Just
Just One
More
Mounting
Must
Nevertheless
Object
Point
Pursuing
Some
Specific
Than
Think
Vision
Where
Work
World
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In any case, the fewer boundaries that exist hindering free movement between all forms of articulate human cognition, the better.
~ Brian Ferneyhough
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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.'
~ Brian Ferneyhough
About
Arise
Chaotic
Come
Contact
Important
Individual
Interference
Model
Music
Phenomena
Really
Strata
Suppose
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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
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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
Adjusting
Compose
Easier
Form
Just
Manual
Piece
Poem
Still
Symphony
Than
True
Tuning
Using
Write
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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.
~ Brian Ferneyhough
Between
Dimensions
Distance
Itself
Largely
Maintained
My Own
Nature
Own
Points
Position
Processes
Suggest
Them
Through
Up
Which
Without
Work
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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
Associated
Change
Come
Enough
Events
German
Naturally
Result
Scene
Sea
Sea Change
Vast
Which
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