Re: [microsound] Re: Herbert Brun, 1918-2000

[Dale Lloyd <dkl37@xxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Eloy, this is pretty darn funny. This is good that people are
sharing miscellany on Herbert Brun, in remembrance. Perhaps there should
be more of this on the microsound  list on a more frequent basis? Someone
can come up with a composer, etc and then people can contribute quotes,
interviews, etc for a day(s), when and if they have time. Dale
(now playing: Gyorgy Ligeti - Lux Aeterna from a Wergo
release)																				
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 12:19:44 -0500 "Eloy Anzola" <leaddaet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
writes:
> From an interview with Peter Hamlin, October 30 1977.
> found in the Curtis Roads book 'Composers and the Computer':
> 
> 
> Brun: I am aware of the danger of coquettishness when a composer 
> says about
> his own piece "totally unlikable" and things like that. What I meant 
> is that
> there are prevalent aesthetics which would lead us to say: "It's 
> pretty
> shocking" or "It doesn't sound very good" or just "Very 
> interesting."
> Doubting the relevance of those aesthetics, however, enough people 
> attending
> such meeting as we have today [the International Computer Music 
> Conference]
> will just enjoy being in the presence of something which grates, not 
> with
> them but at least with the environment which they perceive. So we 
> often sit
> in a concert and listen to a piece to which we do not yet have a 
> "liking"
> relationship but of which we know already that it annoys the people 
> in the
> row behind us -- and then we are very much for that piece. I would 
> suggest
> that my piece is just on the level where it invites you to a 
> conspiracy with
> me, and you like that. Yes, it annoys a few people in your 
> imagination or
> your presence that you would like annoyed, and I'm doing you this 
> little
> favor. I provide you with one moment where that happens and then you 
> like
> having been in that presence. It does not yet mean that the piece is 
> one
> that you would voluntarily take home and put on in the evening to 
> enjoy with
> a cigarette and a glass of wine. But in a social context you may 
> have liked
> the fact that it happened rather than what it is. So it is an 
> invitation to
> this conspiracy.

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