Music, from being an ordered succession of sounds, has become a matter of 'sonorities', and anyone who can produce a brightly coloured brick of unusual shape is henceforth hailed as an architect.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Music focuses on isolated sound textures, making any novelty sound like architecture.
- In plain terms
- Music is now about unique sounds called architecture.
- What can you take from it?
- Question what defines music structure.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What is a sound now?
- Is novelty enough?
Another view
It may dismiss valid structural shifts as trivial.
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