“Do you realize that we're meteorites; almost as soon as we're born, we have to disappear?”
"The musical scale is a convention which circumscribes the area of potentiality and permits construction within those limits in its own particular symmetry."
"Music is not a language. Any musical piece is akin to a boulder with complex forms, with striations and engraved designs atop and within, which men can decipher in a thousand different ways without ever finding the right answer or the best one..."
The collision of hail or rain with hard surfaces, or the song of cicadas in a summer field. These sonic events are made out of thousands of isolated sounds; this multitude of sounds, seen as totality, is a new sonic event.