I don’t like listening to my music, not even new pieces. Generally, they sound pretty much like I expected them to sound, so it’s what I wanted, and that’s it. Brian Ferneyhough Read Quote
I would not say that I was, these days, a ‘student’ of philosophy, although in my youth I was quite deeply involved with certain aspects of the British pragmatists. Brian Ferneyhough Read Quote
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. Brian Ferneyhough Read Quote
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. Brian Ferneyhough Read Quote
Composers dialogue – and obsessively, bitterly argue – with other composers, often over the span of several centuries. Brian Ferneyhough Read Quote
Why, in such a case, should the performer essay any sort of considered approach at all? Brian Ferneyhough Read Quote
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 Read Quote
What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the years? Brian Ferneyhough Read Quote
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 Read Quote
