Attempt to define the indeterminate, yet its nature remains beyond grasp.
That which is sui generis may correspond in some ways to some things and be communicated according to those similarities. Call it a transformation ambient sketch; it consists of an engagement of interactive sound forms lasting between a few minutes and an hour or more, developing and changing over time, moving without percussion or structured melodies according to patterns more likely to be heard in environmental, rather than musical, terms. Hence it is atmospheric, and for lack of a more comprehensive term it can be called music of the twentieth and twenty-first century, given its roots in modernism and the reaction against atonality in classical composition.
It neither needs to be understood in a particular way nor defined by what it is not.
That which is sui generis may correspond in some ways to some things and be communicated according to those similarities. Call it a transformation ambient sketch; it consists of an engagement of interactive sound forms lasting between a few minutes and an hour or more, developing and changing over time, moving without percussion or structured melodies according to patterns more likely to be heard in environmental, rather than musical, terms. Hence it is atmospheric, and for lack of a more comprehensive term it can be called music of the twentieth and twenty-first century, given its roots in modernism and the reaction against atonality in classical composition.
It neither needs to be understood in a particular way nor defined by what it is not.
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