Brian Ferneyhough Quotes

Brian Ferneyhough — British Composer born on January 16, 1943,

Brian John Peter Ferneyhough is an English composer, who has resided in California, United States since 1987. His work characterized by highly complex notation and the extensive use of irregular nested rhythmic tuplets, Ferneyhough is typically considered to be the central figure of the New Complexity movement. Ferneyhough taught composition at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg and the University of California at San Diego, and currently, Stanford University, and is a regular lecturer in the summer courses at Darmstädter Ferienkurse... (wikipedia)

What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the years?

Sometimes one can be so closely involved with things that the larger context is lost to view.

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.

By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow.

If nothing is at risk, nothing is established.

Brian Ferneyhough Quotes

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