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Brian Ferneyhough Quotes

British - Composer | January 16, 1943 -

Naturally enough, I couldn't have foreseen the vast sea change which has come upon that scene as a result of German reunification and associated events.

Brian Ferneyhough

Change Sea Enough Result Events

I suppose that the scope and implications of such forces have rendered my personal accounting ritual pretty much obsolete. That's how things sometimes go.

Brian Ferneyhough

Accounting Go Sometimes Personal How

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.

Brian Ferneyhough

Respect I Am Consistency Speak Than

The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning.

Brian Ferneyhough

Past San Diego Years Questioning San

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.

Brian Ferneyhough

Work Vision Art World Fashion Think

Why, in such a case, should the performer essay any sort of considered approach at all?

Brian Ferneyhough

Why Essay Approach Should Case Sort

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

Work Nature Distance My Own Without

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

Work Family World Sibling Outside

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

Work Failure Art Beyond Limit Point

If nothing is at risk, nothing is established.

Brian Ferneyhough

Nothing Risk Established

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

Construction Process Alien Idea Very

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

Music Important Contact Individual

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