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 alienassemblageconstruction Change image and share on social
In any case, the fewer boundaries that exist hindering free movement between all forms of articulate human cognition, the better. Brian Ferneyhough articulateboundarycase Change image and share on social
Actually, most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own compositional practice, so I should be careful about generalizing lest they come back to haunt me. Brian Ferneyhough backcarefulcompositional Change image and share on social
So: we're all tired. Now what? Manuscripts written in Club Med? Brian Ferneyhough clubmanuscripttire Change image and share on social
The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics. Brian Ferneyhough accumulationcanoncomposer Change image and share on social
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 accountforceimplication Change image and share on social
Sometimes one can be so closely involved with things that the larger context is lost to view. Brian Ferneyhough closelycontextinvolve Change image and share on social
The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning. Brian Ferneyhough diegopastperiod Change image and share on social
Other composers have taken this particular technique much further than I in the meantime, with the result that the Law of Diminishing Returns has begun to apply. Brian Ferneyhough applybegincomposer Change image and share on social
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.' Brian Ferneyhough composeconcretecyclic share on social
