We did experiments with the Boston Symphony for many years where we measured the angles of incidence of sound arriving at the ears of the audience, then took the measurements back to MIT and analyzed them.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds.
When we started there was this element of these experiments we were doing where we weren't really sure how the music would play out because the music was all on different players.
Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.
Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding.
I am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music.
Hearing, which, by the motion of the air, informs us of the motion of sounding or vibrating bodies.
A Beethoven symphony should be rehearsed like chamber music, only for a lot more people.
Out of doing all that experimentation with sound I decided I wanted to do it with live musicians. To take repetition, take music fragments and make it live. Musicians would be able to play it and create this kind of abstract fabric of sound.
I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?
When you hear a large symphony orchestra. for instance, in a concert hall, there's a big, sweeping sound that just doesn't get on to a record.
No opposing quotes found.