A displaced Californian composer writes about music made for the long while & the world around that music. ~
The avant-garde is flexibility of mind. — John Cage ~
...composition is only a very small thing, taken as a part of music as a whole, and it really shouldn't be separated from music making in general. — Douglas Leedy ~
My God, what has sound got to do with music! — Charles Ives
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Just a reminder
The radical music isn't so much a way of composing, or even a repertoire of music associated with a way of composing, but rather a way of listening. And listening not so much to music, as for the possibility of music.
Good point.
ReplyDeleteBut I also think "radical" can refer to intensity of expression, as opposed to merely some esoteric, coded mode of expression.
In terms of sheer intensity, one could say that Glenn Gould had a radical sound.
Or, say, the young Russian composer Anton Lubchenko:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DVrqaSCOcU
http://www.youtube.com/user/antonlub...15/haQIUsWKSQk
I mean - THIS is intense! This is radical!
Leonid
Leonid:
ReplyDeleteI think that the kind of intense expression you describe is the antithesis of the radical music I'm thinking of.