When I listen to music, I like to listen to it, not analyze it. Some composers, however, beg you to do both. I've always felt that music should be an end in itself, that structure, instrumentation, style, performance devices, and the like should only be looked at after the fact to demonstrate why a piece is successful or not. But Boulez is one of those who prompt a different listening approach, a different response, and I'm not sure whether that's a strength of his or a weakness. He is also involved in making technology an ...
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When I listen to music, I like to listen to it, not analyze it. Some composers, however, beg you to do both. I've always felt that music should be an end in itself, that structure, instrumentation, style, performance devices, and the like should only be looked at after the fact to demonstrate why a piece is successful or not. But Boulez is one of those who prompt a different listening approach, a different response, and I'm not sure whether that's a strength of his or a weakness. He is also involved in making technology an integral part of music. Arguably all composers have done that in one way or another, but Boulez in particular has devoted years to seeking a more harmonious and natural relationship between electronics and instrumental performance. Rather than force instrumentalists to react to the fixed, mechanical role of a prerecorded tape in performance, Boulez, in the first version (1981) of Répons, devised a way for the computer's processing to be performed in real time, thereby fitting its...
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