If nothing is at risk, nothing is established.

Quote by Brian Ferneyhough

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Sometimes one can be so closely involved with things that the larger context is lost...

Sometimes one can be so closely involved with things that the larger context is lost...

Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the...

Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the...

When I speak of cycles, I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity, if...

When I speak of cycles, I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity, if...

There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and...

There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and...

I suppose that the scope and implications of such forces have rendered my personal accounting...

I suppose that the scope and implications of such forces have rendered my personal accounting...

In any case, the fewer boundaries that exist hindering free movement between all forms of...

In any case, the fewer boundaries that exist hindering free movement between all forms of...

In my model, important interference phenomena arise when individual strata come into contact. These chaotic...

In my model, important interference phenomena arise when individual strata come into contact. These chaotic...

The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning.

The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning.

In my own recent String Trio I attempt to superimpose two quite different sets of...

In my own recent String Trio I attempt to superimpose two quite different sets of...

Actually, most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own...

Actually, most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own...

Other composers have taken this particular technique much further than I in the meantime, with...

Other composers have taken this particular technique much further than I in the meantime, with...

This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and...

This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and...

Why, in such a case, should the performer essay any sort of considered approach at...

Why, in such a case, should the performer essay any sort of considered approach at...

By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow.

By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow.

I would not say that I was, these days, a 'student' of philosophy, although in...

I would not say that I was, these days, a 'student' of philosophy, although in...

Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span...

Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span...

Hence my obstinate emphasis on stylistic continuity from work to work rather than specific sibling...

Hence my obstinate emphasis on stylistic continuity from work to work rather than specific sibling...

My own position is, that it is largely up to the work itself to suggest...

My own position is, that it is largely up to the work itself to suggest...

If the work of art is to continue pursuing the vision of both being in...

If the work of art is to continue pursuing the vision of both being in...

When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance...

When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance...