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Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.
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I don't see 'lines of force' as being destructive, except to the extent that they are exclusively traceable through observance of the path of distorted material left in their wake.
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In my own recent String Trio I attempt to superimpose two quite different sets of formal strategies, both of which, ultimately, refer back to historical precedent.
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With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct, although I am reluctant to see individual achievement reduced to archetypes.
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Sometimes one can be so closely involved with things that the larger context is lost to view.
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I'm perplexed, though, by your application of the term 'negative' to my figural imagery.
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This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion.
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My own position is, that it is largely up to the work itself to suggest the nature of these referential points without dimensions in and through the processes by which the distance between them is maintained.
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So: we're all tired. Now what? Manuscripts written in Club Med?
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The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning.
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Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries.
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As a necessary prerequisite to the creation of new forms of expression one might, I suppose, argue that current sensibilities respond uniquely to the notion of exhaustion as exhaustion, although that does de facto seem rather limiting.
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In any case, the fewer boundaries that exist hindering free movement between all forms of articulate human cognition, the better.
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