The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
With recording, everything changed. The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture. It's an idea that many composers have felt reluctant about because it seemed to them to diminish the importance of music.
I thought music could take you to a place where you didn't even feel ownership of it, you just felt lucky you were there. It's like church without God, or something. It's about feeling, hope and catharsis and things that are nurturing.
Music is a way to dream together and go to another dimension.
Music is supposed to be an escape. It's supposed to be somewhere you go, where you can be yourself, or be whatever you want to be.
We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience.
I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hang-ups.
Music was a vector that we wanted to build a universe around.
We live with incessant music, all the time. It's like some weird musical purgatory, there is absolutely no rest for the ears, no space to absorb and reflect.
Falling in Place was meant to be very much rooted in a place and time, and music was a part of that.