Quotes By Brian Ferneyhough

There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation.

Why, in such a case, should the performer essay any sort of considered approach at all?

Actually, most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own compositional practice, so I should be careful about generalizing lest they come back to haunt me.

So: we're all tired. Now what? Manuscripts written in Club Med?