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...

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...