Listening is active. It's like vision. It's like the idea of the eye projecting light, which I've heard is what children and infants say when they're asked to explain vision - that the eye projects light, rather than just receives it.
Eyvind KangLearning how to listen to others and how to listen to your own thoughts is the ultimate process.
Eyvind KangIn a way, composing on the melodic level is an expression of a melodic truth, almost like a geometric truth. If it has clarity, other people will recognize it. There's no way of isolating it in a gallery on a white wall and saying, "This is a work of art. This is a mathematical proof."
Eyvind KangI believe that music should be grown on trees, to be plucked like a fruit without the extravagance of harvest.
Eyvind KangWorking with the Latin language is pretty powerful. Working with a language that is not spoken vernacularly is intense.
Eyvind KangIn a way, all recorded music is reduced to the same level, no matter what it is. You find it in the store, you put it on and, "Oh, that's not cool. That's gangsta rap. That's white supremacist punk." But in a way, the content is removed from the intention of the people that made it. That's the commercial level of music.
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