“It is loose, airy, but at the same time, it is connected.” - Jürg Frey
"By using minimal thematic materials and small shifts of articulation, all in a free time-signature environment, Scelsi offers a platform for the pianist to play with the gravity points, resulting in an internal logic of syntax and meaning." - Shira Legmann
"A melody is like walking, going from one place to another, without carrying a heavy bag.
Just the necessary things, a few tones are enough to make the walk..." - Anastassis Philippakopoulos “Here we have two artists who are meeting each other at some common middle ground, without losing our identity one bit, but ending up with pieces that would have not being what they are if we didn't set to meet each other halfway.” - Gil Sansón
"I think the question is not ‘how to get it’, but ‘how not to destroy the openness’ when we compose." - Jürg Frey
“In order to form a whole, you have to be simultaneously with and without the rest of the elements.” - Clara de Asís
"These silences are soon getting replaced by something else: by the sounds from before, by the sounds in expectation, by thoughts." - Stefan Thut
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"I would not dare to make a connection between my literary affinities and my music, but I was fascinated by romans of Proust, their extraordinary tangle of events like his style, which makes us feel singularly all the complexity of what we mean by "time". - Melaine Dalibert
"It all came together naturally, where we would get together and pore over lyrics and ideas and then go back to our home studios and put things down. Looking back at the finished songs, it’s often quite hard to know who contributed what in many cases. Which was sort of what we wanted it to be.” - Robyn Jacob
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