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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

Topics: Between Dimensions Distance Itself Largely Maintained My Own Nature Own Points Position Processes Suggest Them Through Up Which Without Work

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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

Topics: 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

Topics: Am Arguing Attempt Autonomy Certainly Even Facet Facto Individual Light Making Much Process Reception Said See Though Work I Am

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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.

~Brian Ferneyhough

Topics: Actual Art Becomes Beyond Boundaries Breaking Even Experimentation Failure Limit Mere Point Preoccupied Seem Transgression Which Work Would

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If nothing is at risk, nothing is established.

~Brian Ferneyhough

Topics: Established Nothing Risk

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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

Topics: About Arise Chaotic Come Contact Important Individual Interference Model Music Phenomena Really Strata Suppose

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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

Topics: Achievement Although Am Archetypes Correct Doubt French German Individual No Doubt Reduced Reluctant Respect Respective See Traditions You I Am

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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

Topics: Being Destructive Distorted Except Extent Force Left Lines Material Observance Path See Through Wake

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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.

~Brian Ferneyhough

Topics: About Accumulate Both Came Canon Composers Depended Livelihood Merely Musical Opposition Other Powers Ruling Western Whom

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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

Topics: 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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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Composer

Born: January 16th, 1943

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