“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.” IfsThinkingWorldArtVisionFashionObjectsArt IsJust OneWorks Of ArtNeverthelessAssuredClutter Author:Brian Ferneyhough
“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.” IfsSpaceInstanceQuestioningEnteringCriteriaImplicationsPrevailing Author:Brian Ferneyhough
“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.” IfsProblemSpeakCapacityCyclesRelativeConsistencyIntervalsReferringIrritatedLengthyHomogeneity 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
