Luciano Berio cytaty

Luciano Berio – włoski kompozytor doby powojennej awangardy, słynący ze swoich muzycznych eksperymentów i działalności w zakresie muzyki elektronicznej. Zwrócił na siebie uwagę także swoimi transkrypcjami dzieł innych kompozytorów różnych epok – od Henry’ego Purcella po Igora Strawinskiego oraz inspirowaniem się dziełami filozoficznymi, literackimi, poetyckimi, Biblią aż po utwory Jamesa Joyce’a. Wikipedia

✵ 24. Październik 1925 – 27. Maj 2003

Luciano Berio: Cytaty po angielsku

“A composer's awareness of the plurality of functions of his own tools forms the basis for his responsibility just as, in everyday life, every man's responsibility begins with the recognition of the multiplicity of human races, conditions, needs, and ideals. I would go as far as to say (as my anger comes back) that any attempt to codify musical reality into a kind of imitation grammar (I refer mainly to the efforts associated with the Twelve-Tone System) is a brand of fetishism which shares with Fascism and racism the tendency to reduce live processes to immobile, labeled objects, the tendency to deal with formalities rather than substance.”

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Luciano Berio

"The Composer on His Work : Meditation on a Twelve-Tone Horse", in Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music : A Continuing Symposium (1996) edited by Richard Kostelanetz and Joseph Darby, , p. 169
Kontekst: A composer's awareness of the plurality of functions of his own tools forms the basis for his responsibility just as, in everyday life, every man's responsibility begins with the recognition of the multiplicity of human races, conditions, needs, and ideals. I would go as far as to say (as my anger comes back) that any attempt to codify musical reality into a kind of imitation grammar (I refer mainly to the efforts associated with the Twelve-Tone System) is a brand of fetishism which shares with Fascism and racism the tendency to reduce live processes to immobile, labeled objects, the tendency to deal with formalities rather than substance. Claude Lévi-Strauss describes (though to illustrate a different point) a captain at sea, his ship reduced to a frail raft without sails, who, by enforcing a meticulous protocol on his crew, is able to distract them from nostalgia for a safe harbor and from the desire for a destination.