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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.

~Brian Ferneyhough

Topics: Apply Criteria Entering Failure Implications Involves Nature Necessarily Only Prevailing Questioning Scarcely Sense Spaces Specifically Success Technical Where

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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

Topics: Attempt Back Both Different Formal Historical My Own Own Precedent Quite Recent Refer Sets Strategies String Trio Two Ultimately Which

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I'm perplexed, though, by your application of the term 'negative' to my figural imagery.

~Brian Ferneyhough

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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

Topics: Alien Another Construction Idea Indifference Machine Process Relative Sensibility Since Strata Very

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

~Brian Ferneyhough

Topics: Argue Centuries Composers Dialogue Often Other Over Several Span

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

~Brian Ferneyhough

Topics: Club Manuscripts Now Tired Written

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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

Topics: 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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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

Topics: Compose Concrete Each Entire Form Frequently Material Measure Metric Modified Much Musical Out Piece Revolution Some Structure Variation Were Where

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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

Topics: Apply Begun Composers Diminishing Further Law Meantime Much Other Particular Result Returns Taken Technique Than

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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.

~Brian Ferneyhough

Topics: Been Benefit Certain Composition Cool Did Distance Europe Had Increasing Left Observing Relevance Several Teacher Tendencies Thought Would Years

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Composer

Born: January 16th, 1943

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