“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.” DoeSeemsMightFormCreationExpressionNotionCurrentsArguingSensibilityExhaustionPrerequisites Author:Brian Ferneyhough
“In any case, the fewer boundaries that exist hindering free movement between all forms of articulate human cognition, the better.” HumansFormCasesMovementBoundariesFewerCognitionFree Movement Author:Brian Ferneyhough
“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.” WritingStillsFormPiecesEasierSymphonyManualsAdjustingTuningVcr Author:Brian Ferneyhough
“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.'” IfsFormPiecesMaterialsRevolutionStructureMusicalLengthConcreteVariationMetricsGmos Author:Brian Ferneyhough