[silence] “This is the new confusion…”

[Ralph Lichtensteiger]

Music 24/7
By ALVIN CURRAN

"[...] As a composer of art music I find this new ballgame  
disorienting, perfectly natural (because it all happened in my own  
lifetime), and marvelous in its anarchic essence and unknowable  
consequences. To quote an apt phase in John Cage’s Norton Lectures “I- 
VI,” “This is the new confusion…” – and indeed it is in this new  
confusion that I suspect we may find both the seeds and the genesis  
of a New Common Practice – the very practice of endless possibility  
and confusion we now inhabit. [...]"


http://thescore.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/03/11/music-247/

all the best,
Ralph Lichtensteiger
http://www.lichtensteiger.de/
http://trainsonor.blogspot.com/
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