In contrast, traditional classical music starts from an abstract musical schema. This is then notated and only expressed in concrete sound as a last stage, when it is performed.
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Classical music is something that we're very passionate about, but we always thought it was presented in a stuffy way.
Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old.
Either your understanding of the meaning of music is there from the beginning or it is not.
But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean.
Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.
Classical - perhaps I should say 'orchestral' - music is so digital, so cut up, rhythmically, pitchwise and in terms of the roles of the musicians. It's all in little boxes. The reason you get child prodigies in chess, arithmetic, and classical composition is that they are all worlds of discontinuous, parceled-up possibilities.
New music is absolutely integral to classical music.
I've worked with some great orchestras and amazing classical musicians, but I don't like the conceptualization of classical music as an elitist form of art.
Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract.
First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that many musicians started to look outside the traditional structures of tonality.
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