The idea of 'machine assemblage' is, especially, very alien to my sensibility, since it suggests a relative indifference of the strata to one another during the process of construction.
Brian FerneyhoughThe Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics.
Brian FerneyhoughBy reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow.
Brian Ferneyhough