Re: [microsound] complexity

[Andrei <andrei@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> >Xenakis describes his frustration with trying to get instrumentalists to
> >play his pieces without emotion...
>
> i remember luigi nono once talked about this "performing without
> emotion" issue too.

I think what they're probably referring to is the tendency of
post-Romantic period classical musicians to fill their performances with
exaggerated emotions by using copious amounts of vibrato and that sort of
thing.

Even the "period" instruments & performance practices movement aims at
ridding interpretations of pre-Romantic period music of Romantic
performance excesses.

Andrei