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May 4, 2006
Social contexts
While working on my just finished composition Square Prayer, I was reconfirmed in my conviction that music only bears its meaning in a social human context.
I can try to be innovative by composing new sounds, but especially by composing for carillon I do feel the tradition and cultural history behind it.
The obligation I felt is to pick up on the tradition and try to bring it further by using a language my contemporaries might understand. In this I can only try and hope to be part of a history that began a long time ago and I hope will go on for a very long time.
Posted by Renske at May 4, 2006 9:54 PM | permanent link