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 Copy Share Image
In my model, important interference phenomena arise when individual strata come into contact. These chaotic fluctuations are, I suppose, what my music is really… — Brian Ferneyhough Copy Share
Sometimes one can be so closely involved with things that the larger context is lost to view. — Brian Ferneyhough Copy Share
Certainly being in California has encouraged a sustained commitment to rethinking the nature, purposes, and relevance of the contemporary arts, specifically music, for a… — Brian Ferneyhough Copy Share
There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point… — Brian Ferneyhough Copy Share
Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries. — Brian Ferneyhough Copy Share
In my own recent String Trio I attempt to superimpose two quite different sets of formal strategies, both of which, ultimately, refer back to… — Brian Ferneyhough Copy Share
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… — Brian Ferneyhough Copy Share
Hence my obstinate emphasis on stylistic continuity from work to work rather than specific sibling relationships between the individual work and other members of… — Brian Ferneyhough Copy Share
The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning. — Brian Ferneyhough Copy Share
I would not say that I was, these days, a 'student' of philosophy, although in my youth I was quite deeply involved with certain… — Brian Ferneyhough Copy Share
The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended… — Brian Ferneyhough Copy Share
By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow. — Brian Ferneyhough Copy Share
If the work of art is to continue pursuing the vision of both being in and of the world but nevertheless in some fashion… — Brian Ferneyhough Copy Share
