Synecdoche
“ The mission of art lies neither in fleeing from, nor in flirting with, the contradictions which mould the consciousness of our society, but in coming to grips with them and dialectically mastering them.” Theodor W. Adorno Within American experimental music, structural frameworks allowing indeterminacy redefine music as an emergent process rather than a determinate object, not by evading contradiction, but by internalizing it within compositional systems themselves. These systems do not...
