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A note on Ferneyhough, not that I know all that much about him really:
his "Etudes transcendentales" are meant to be near-as-dammit
physically unplayable, although musicians still very gamely try to
play them - the performance is then almost guaranteed to be different
from what's in the score, to have ad hoc, "live", holes, elisions and
mis-keys "added" to the score by the technical limitations of human
players and their instruments.
But technique catches up. [DF]
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Nicely put. The ET were one of the things I was gesturing at, albeit
vaguely.
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the idea that there are some things you have to reach for without having a
solid base of knowledge or technique to help you get there is quite
compatible with the greatest love and respect for knowledge, for self-study
[DF]
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And again. So here is Valie Export, since I also mentioned her: 'Every field
of action voluntarily abandoned by artists will be usurped and exploited by
representatives of the current government for their ideas of art and
culture.' A characteristic position statement in its way. You can be a
trusty of The System or put yourself firmly in the informal sector, the
territory both of the autodidact and of the refusée.
CW
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I am always doing what I cannot do yet in order to learn how to do it
(van Gogh)
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