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. . . by now it is clear that
today’s complex musical
textures, if they are to avoid a personalized expressivity and to achieve
effects related more to space rockets than to heartbeats—for such indeed
is the modern dream—will have to be achieved through following the higher
equations, no matter how much handwork may also be involved. For surely
the well-prepared engineer (prepared in music I mean, and esthetically
sophisticated as well as mathematically) is likely to carry further the
science-in-music ideal than the electronic improvisers or the merely classically
educated. For an interesting complexity cannot be faked.
Virgil Thomson
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