10. Juni 2015

The exciting relation between chance and determination used to be an issue of discussion in the avantgarde music scene of the 60’ties. Composers were “addicted“ to complex structures. An ensured and understandable perception for listeners was not a point of much consideration for them. Complexity was estimated as an ultimate truth for itself, no matter if anyone could grasp what they had notated in their scores. The so-called serialism and aleatoric were the two opposite points of...

03. Juni 2015

Is our culture shallow? Yes, of course it is. Day by day we face pure superficialness, because it is the surface area where we learn about any cultural things. And these things have to sparkle like diamonds to be discovered by us. We want things to sparkle, because then we are more happy and satisfied. That is a crucial part of our biology. Animals have to tout for their courtship display, using only the best they could develop in their evolution - just to be more showy. So, the surface is the...

29. April 2015

If we follow the historical pathway of music-culture's compositions through the centuries, we find its time-structures developing to more and more complicated textures, which, as a consequence, are more and more difficult to grasp for listeners. We refer to late 19th century, when high-lifted rituals of articial music had gone astray in enhanced processes of autonomization which left the "low" music, just made for entertainment, far behind their own practices. Of course, we have to diagnose a...