21st ccentury boy

The greatest composer of all time. No other musician knows what he knows. No other *man* knows what he knows. His intellect far exceeds yours.

21st ccentury boy writes often long, large scale pieces in a very postmodern style. His music is widely criticized and misunderstood by many, but that is because they are beneath him and cannot understand its intellectual meaning. Listening to his works is sublime, like the distant songs of sweet angels' voices ringing in the heavenly wind; viewing his pieces is extraordinary, fit for only the noblest, keen eyes, expertly scored with his saintly hands and ravishing grace.

He often speaks in long-winded soliloquies, extending many paragraphs down the page, unworthy of His gospel. He frequently addresses the intersection of complex musical theory, modern politics, and socio-psychol—oh who am I kidding, it's not like you would be able to understand His genius.

> "Music does not have to be understood , it has to be listened to " Hermann Scherchen .
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> Quote from Pierre Boulez : "The artists I admire—Beethoven, Wagner, Debussy, Berlioz—have not followed tradition but have been able to force tradition to follow them. We need to restore the spirit of irreverence in music."
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> We have long lived in a time of violent ,shuffling ,drastic change ,calamitous revolt -I try to describe that "shock" musically . I don't seek to soften the blows of non-related harmonies . Rhythms,harmony , notational figures must be noticeably spastic . My music is about psychologic fissures !
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> When you're a member of a minority (African descent) it is your responsibility ,often your desire to fully express the rivets binding a fractures, disharmonious , hipocritical ,non-logically expanding , developing society. What has happened to and for your "group" in this time it has been given voice (1950's onward ?
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> I need stuff where & when people had enough sense to recognize African drumming , the fall of metal across ceramic , or a string pluck , the very beginnings of human enterprise & activity in music (ElliottCarter,MiltonBabbitt,Ligeti,Berio etc ) and Debussy completely was amazed and thrilled when he heard Eastern percussion at world's Fair Never forget what this REALLY MEANS . We were no longer primitives and Cubism can thank us . Attempts to make speaking important contributions creatively " art" versus stuff copying 'life" can be -in part thanked to Eastern and African voices . The backbeat in Beethoven ? Now how did he get there ? He didn't travel . It's amazing Mozart travelled so much more but could not or dared not go so far (his epoch was different had he even lived 5 more years music would have been forever changed twice by one man . Mozart died the year the queen of France was executed and the Marquis deCondorcet,Wollstonecraft and French women and english women were talking about rights and citizenship! . Beethoven gave "Noise" the status of intelligent music as Ives and Varese would continue to do later . For Mozart Noise just remained noise - he understood "effect" of course . what dramatic opera
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> composer would not and his religious music shows he knew this well as do the dminor stringQuintet and Don Giovanni tell us that ; but he could not go to dee other side ! He joked in music (gigueand , bassoon concerto , Horn concerti others but he couldn't knock down The Wall. Definitely will write an essay on this one day when i have my doctorate(supposed authority :sad world ain't it ?)
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> To any serious creator . all the arts are connected . Art is interrogative ! That is my idea . All serious artists should read James P. Carse's Finite and Infinite Games ! elsewhere Robert Mann says " The worst music( endeavor & art in general I would clarify ) is cursed by routine and unconsciousness ! " notice how in minimalism we are fascinated by the slightest change . Art strives to make us see more life . Life and our human biology only allows us to see a little bit of reality at a time - a tiny little bit . "Wake up ! What is happening right now "
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> I compose in order to grow and explore what I don't already know or have not yet heard or experienced :it is always what i have not done before. why repeat what others do better ? It's fun to try on constraints , to try to parallel ideas from the visual , philosophic or architectural fields into musical sound ! It's enlivening and self-empowering. To Find Myself and to be amazed at the incongruity of self-conception and the true unlimited being .We are not ever or even limited by who we think we are . Its great fun and in order to FEEL Completely ALIVE I Venture !,Adventure for a moment the unshamed theatricalization and posit positions and behaviors and personas I would never want to in real life to feel how the guise of character stretches and the febrile brushes against my many inner skins.
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> The American composer George Perle once said " if you can't tell what's happening and why in Bartok's String quartets then you really don't know what's happening in Beethoven ". I WANT EVERY KID WITH PASSION TO READ , KNOW & REMEMBER what the speculative -fiction writer Octavia Butler herself wrote in the 1989 Essence magazine article "Birth of a Writer,"
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> "Forget talent. If you have it, fine. Use it. If you don’t have it, it doesn’t matter. As HABIT is more dependable than inspiration, continued learning is more dependable than talent." Those words are gems !!!
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