Technique - Music
Music cannot be limited to symbols on paper the same way a photograph of a human being is not a real human being. Music lives in a world separate from the musician, a world of which we have only touched the surface - William Parker1
Music is something to be listened to, not explained.2
These three quotes above summarize my thoughts on technique versus music. That technique, for me, is something that you can explain, and music is something that you can experience. I do not consider the archive that I have made to be music. I consider it to be musical grammar, technique, with the help of which I can improve as a musician and create music. Because for me it is the performance, the action, that is the music. Or as the Swedish professor of literature Gunnar D. Hansson wrote about literature:
The text, the writing is a non-genre. It is the performance and the art of reading that makes the genre.3
1:Bradley C (2021) Universal Tonality. Duke University Press, p.128
2:Takemitsu, T (1995) Confronting Silence. Fallen Leaf Press
3:Hansson, 2011
