Perhaps many of the perplexing problems of the new music could be put into a new light if we were to reintroduce the ancient idea of music being a reflection of nature.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.
I'd been making music that was intended to be like painting, in the sense that it's environmental, without the customary narrative and episodic quality that music normally has. I called this 'ambient music.' But at the same time I was trying to make visual art become more like music, in that it changed the way that music changes.
But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
Music gives us new energy and a stronger sense of purpose.
So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the world. That was encouraging but also little daunting to think that you had to work so hard to be new and yet it was old.
Music was a vector that we wanted to build a universe around.
With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul, in musical sound.
New music is absolutely integral to classical music.
Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.