Occupation: Composer Birth: August 22, 1928 Death: December 5, 2007
I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language..
We are no longer the same after hearing certain sounds, and this is more the case when we hear organized sounds, sounds organized by another human be….
The September 11 attacks were the greatest work of art in the cosmos...compared to that, we composers are nothing.
And I'll never forget the first time I took the possibility to project sound every day for six or seven hours with special devices which were built f….
Music is mathematics, the mathematics of listening, mathematics for the ears..
One experiments and has to choose always the best results..
No, what is important is neither linearity or non-linearity, but the change, the degree of change from something that doesn't move to other events wi….
In particular what is most important to me is the transformation of a sound by slowing it down, sometimes extremely, so that the inner of sound becom….
I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery..
Being quiet and meditating on sound is something completely different and will be discovered very soon by a lot of people who feel that the visual wo….
When a certain piece of music penetrates a person, a resonance is set in motion and an inner voice says: "I like this resonance. It elevates me. It d….
So there is a personal sense of style for a given work - I don't like a general style, but every work has its own style, and I want to create a style….
Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that t….
And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition..
Since I started composing I have always worked with series of tempos, even superimposed the music of different groups of musicians, of singers, instr….
Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, ….
I no longer limit myself..
It is true that the eyes dominate the ears in our time..
But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm..
And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good..
I was horrible at everything I ever tried to do and people respect me. The American Dream has come true!!.