Assuming that I don't write the exact same notes as Mozart did for his Symphony No. 40 or whatever, even if I happen to write many same notes, the fact that I am writing it in this period of the history and at this different location of the world and for a different group of performers and audience, I am writing new music. A lot of things have been done in music, that's true, but the way how I, or any other composer write a piece, even though it might have the exact same notes or even formatting/layout of the score, creates new music because it requires new sort of communications among musicians and audiences.
We don't write in the style of Beethoven anymore because we have heard so many new sounds and that create so much more possibility in musical expression. I am sure that has Debussy heard the music of today, he'll write... like Takemitsu?! Wait... does egg or chicken come first...?
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I am so exciting about the upcoming 31st Annual New Music Festival hosted by MACCM! We have Robert Morris as the guest composer this year.
We don't write in the style of Beethoven anymore because we have heard so many new sounds and that create so much more possibility in musical expression. I am sure that has Debussy heard the music of today, he'll write... like Takemitsu?! Wait... does egg or chicken come first...?
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I am so exciting about the upcoming 31st Annual New Music Festival hosted by MACCM! We have Robert Morris as the guest composer this year.
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