There Can Be No Dispute That Monsters Live Among Us

new music

new listening

not an attempt to understand something

that is said

for if something were being said

the sounds would be given the shapes of words

just an attention to the activity of sound

new means change the method

new means change the experience

and new experiences change man

whenever we hear sounds we are changed

we are no longer the same

after hearing certain sounds

and this is more the case

when we hear organized sounds

sounds organized by another human being

music

our entire system of values

of the things we accept to be true

is based on the visual sounds

you have to sign a paper because your word is not enough to be trusted

as a result the acoustic faculty in human beings has declined

as it has become possible to define a continuum between sounds and noises

completely new problems have come up when we compose or play intuitively

because we have no training whatsoever in balancing tones and noises

traditionally in western music

noises have been taboo

and there are precise reasons for this

it has become from began from the time when staff notations were introduced

traditionally in western music

noises have been taboo

and there are precise reasons for this

it began from the time when staff notations were introduced

and music could be noted in precise intervals for the first time

then it was mainly vocal music

some predominantly with vowels rather than consonants

if i sing a melody of consonants now, people would say it isn't music

we have no tradition of music composed in these sounds

and no notation for it

there you see how narrow our concept of music is

from having excluded consonants the noises

of course you find consonants in vocals music

but only in order to make a word comprehensible

thats the function of a consonant in our daily language

to clarify the meaning

but in a musical sense

consonants have no function other than as accents

s s or t or k

to start or end sound clearly

i respond to sounds directly

sound is my air

whenever i deal with sounds they organize themselves, so to speak

they respond very well to me

and i to them