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If nothing happens in philosophy it is precisely because it has no object. If something actually does happen in the sciences, it is because they do have an object, knowledge of which they can increase, which gives them a history. As philosophy has no object, nothing can happen in it. The nothing of its history simply repeats the nothing of its object.
——Louis Althusser
I was born differently: I am incapable of thinking if I haven’t driven away all traces of dialectics from my mind. Dialectics has nothing to do with logic, [it] has nothing to do with reason; it’s just an idea, fixed; nothing.
——Morton Feldman
Schönheit als die Verweigerung der Gewohnheit.
—— Helmut Lachenmann
Additionally, sound is spherical, but while listening to it, it seems to us to possess only two dimensions:
pitch and duration; the third, depth–we know that it exists, but in a certain sense it escapes us.
—— Giacinto Scelsi
Coming from and going towards the eternal (the outer time) the music creates into the time a magic state of the soul. This is its single aim and reason to exist.
—— Horatiu Radulescu
It's more a question of how far the composer needs to go in a particular direction in order to problematize particular issues of contemporary music which,
although no longer resting on more than distinctly shaky foundations of received 'tradition', are often enough subject to a general conspiracy of silence.
—— Brian Ferneyhough
Songs, on the musical plane, represent to some extent the equivalent of flowers: beautiful, but ephemeral.
Cultured music, with its pretension,to universality, will never be able to render the sense of death that a light composition transudes.
It’s necessary to free the ear of the incrustations, to mend it and recover it from deafness.
—— Salvatore Sciarrino
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