Having just posted a favourable comment about an orchestral piece of Boulez`, I have to say about this one that I just don`t get it. It may have been written to a strict formula, but the effect is the aural equivalent of Jackson Pollock - notes sprayed randomly onto the stave. My sense is that you could derive certain principles from listening to the piece - reverse engineer it, so to speak - and use them to create similar works yourself. Any competent pianist could learn, and I don`t know what criteria you would then invoke to judge the quality of the rip-off pieces as against those produced by the professionally trained composer. I`m not saying `a monkey could do this`, but I reckon you could programme a computer to churn out Boulez sonatas and no-one would realise.
Boulez`, I have to say about this one that I just don`t get it. It
may have been written to a strict formula, but the effect is the aural
equivalent of Jackson Pollock - notes sprayed randomly onto the stave.
My sense is that you could derive certain principles from listening
to the piece - reverse engineer it, so to speak - and use them to
create similar works yourself. Any competent pianist could learn, and
I don`t know what criteria you would then invoke to judge the quality
of the rip-off pieces as against those produced by the professionally
trained composer. I`m not saying `a monkey could do this`, but I
reckon you could programme a computer to churn out Boulez sonatas and
no-one would realise.