I do not write experimental music. My experimenting is done before I make the music. Afterwards it is the listener who must experiment.
Interpretation
The artist's experimentation occurs prior to creation, while the audience's exploration happens during listening.
In this quote, Edgard Varèse expresses his belief that the process of experimentation in music occurs in the composer's mind before the actual creation of the piece. He suggests that, once the music is completed, it is up to the listener to engage in their own exploration and interpretation of the work, highlighting the dynamic relationship between the creator and the audience.
In practice
During a lecture on the creative process in music composition.
And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.
It’s not a lie. It’s a gift for fiction.
The artist invites the spectator to take a journey within the realm of the canvas... Without taking the journey, the spectator has really missed the essential experience of the picture.
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.
Hollywood wants to go for the flash, because that's what a lot of them think science fiction is.
Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I can't even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.
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