Compositional Quotes
More Compositional Quotes
I wanted to create a labyrinth which would somehow help to prevent a compositional idea from establishing itself all too quickly. I had the idea of working on all the walls pretty well at the same time,as if they were one large painting completely surrounding me. By constantly wandering in the labyrinth I sought to realise a form of “de-composition”
— Günter Brus, in Nervous Stillness on the Horizon (2006)
...in serial music, the series itself is seldom audible... What I'm interested in is a compositional process and a sounding music that are one in the same thing.
steve reich— In: Steve Reich, ?Paul Hillier (2002) Writings on Music, 1965-2000, p. 35
