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

  Important, Individual, Arise

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• 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.

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  Musical, Accumulation, Ruling

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• 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.

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  Consistency, Irritated, Problem

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• If nothing is at risk, nothing is established.

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  Risk, Ifs

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• I don't like listening to my music, not even new pieces. Generally, they sound pretty much like I expected them to sound, so it's what I wanted, and that's it.

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  Listening, Sound, Pieces

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• 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.

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  Space, Entering, Criteria

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• Sometimes one can be so closely involved with things that the larger context is lost to view.

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  Views, Sometimes, Lost

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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.

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  Moda, Arte, Pensamiento

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

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  Cognition, Movement, Boundaries

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• When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain tendencies I had been observing for several years with increasing disquiet.

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  Teacher, Distance, Years

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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.

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  Philosophy, Students, Youth

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• There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation.

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  Art, Point Break, Limits

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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.

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  Writing, Symphony, Vcr

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• This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion.

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  Pain, Reflection, Digestion

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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.

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  Two, Historical, Trios

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• By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow.

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  Reason, Instruction, Translations

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• 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.

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  Lines, Path, Force

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• ¿Qué hace que una determinada cualidad o cantidad de innovación conserve su intensa novedad a lo largo de los años?

  Brian Ferneyhough

  Years, Innovation, Quality

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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.

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  Practice, Should, Be Careful

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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.

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  Sea, Events, Enough

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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.

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  Expression, Might, Doe

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• Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries.

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  Arguing, Century, Composer

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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

  Art, Commitment, California

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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.

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  Sometimes, Obsolete, Scope

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

  Brian Ferneyhough

  Past, Years, San Diego

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