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Brian Ferneyhough
British Composer
Born: Jan 16, 1943
Although Composers Music Nature Own Work
Related authors: Andrew Lloyd Webber Edward Elgar Harrison Birtwistle John Barry Michael Nyman Richard Baker Stephen Hough William Gilbert
I'm perplexed, though, by your application of the term 'negative' to my figural imagery. Brian Ferneyhough
Negative Though Term Perplexed Your Application Imagery
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
Success Nature Failure Sense Criteria Entering Scarcely Prevailing Only Implications Involves Questioning Where Spaces Technical Specifically Necessarily Apply
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
Law Result Other Further Diminishing Composers Taken Particular Returns Than Begun Much Meantime Technique Apply
Sometimes one can be so closely involved with things that the larger context is lost to view. Brian Ferneyhough
Sometimes Lost Involved Context Closely View Larger Things
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
Music Nature Commitment Society Relevance Seems Purposes Contemporary California Well Without Encouraged Manage Quite Arts Being Sustained Which Them Certainly Large Specifically
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 Events Result Enough Scene Vast Come Reunification Foreseen German Which Sea Sea Change Naturally Associated
This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion. Brian Ferneyhough
Reflection Digestion Possible Only Periods Frequently Quite Painful Extended
When I speak of 'cycles,' I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity, if not in the resolving of problems, than at least with respect to the consistency of their capacity to productively irritate. Brian Ferneyhough
Respect Speak Problems Consistency Resolving Intervals Relative Am Least Referring Than Irritate Lengthy Capacity Cycles Productively Homogeneity
Why, in such a case, should the performer essay any sort of considered approach at all? Brian Ferneyhough
Approach Considered Case Performer Sort Essay Any Should Why
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
Work Family World Other Relationships Members Rather Individual Outside Emphasis Between Obstinate Stylistic Continuity Than Hence Specific Sibling
If nothing is at risk, nothing is established. Brian Ferneyhough
Nothing Risk Established
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
Construction Alien Relative Machine Indifference Idea Since Another Very Sensibility Process Strata Assemblage
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
Music Important Chaotic About Individual Arise Contact Suppose Come Model Really Interference Strata Phenomena
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. Brian Ferneyhough
You Achievement Respect Doubt Respective Correct No Doubt See Archetypes Reluctant Individual French Although Am Reduced Traditions German
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
Other Musical Ruling Musics Composers About Both Merely Powers Came Opposition Western Accumulate Depended Canon Subversion Whom Livelihood
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
Creation Respond Seem Rather Facto Argue New Suppose Although New Forms Does Limiting Exhaustion Current Sensibilities Forms Might Notion Uniquely Expression Prerequisite Necessary
So: we're all tired. Now what? Manuscripts written in Club Med? Brian Ferneyhough
Tired Club Written Manuscripts Now
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
Symphony Easier Adjusting Compose Poem Write True Piece Still Than Just Form Tuning Manual Using
By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow. Brian Ferneyhough
Translation Sets Poems Weird Like Instructions Read Anyhow Reason Many
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
Youth Philosophy Say Would Student Days Involved Although Quite Certain Aspects Deeply British
In any case, the fewer boundaries that exist hindering free movement between all forms of articulate human cognition, the better. Brian Ferneyhough
Better Free Case Between Boundaries Exist Articulate Any Fewer Human Movement Forms Cognition

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