Neologism -- *Urmehrdeutig*
German neologism of the day:
Urmehrdeutig
after Georg Joseph Vogler's *Mehrdeutigkeit*
The primal pun is
--the music that had not yet been punned.
--the music that might be un-tempered, if the instruments allowed it.
--a value that promotes integration and syncretism, like Beethoven and Scott Johnson.
The measure of our vaunted innovations is obscured if we do not, within the work, integrate with the *Urmehrdeutig*.
The proud modernist bridge burners never dared to enfold the Urmehrdeutig. They were of a bridge burning moment. And I love their stuff. But I cannot defend it from those who say it's obscure. Enfolding the Urmehrdeutig is an enormous technical challenge.
Ultimately, I could see this leading to a new Mobius strip binary form. That will be shown in music, hopefully, not words.
William Anderson
I compose, play plucked instruments, run ensembles, produce concerts, and advocate for new music, I soaked up contemporary American music for 30 years, working directly with composers from all over the map. In the last 20 years I began composing works that draw on that experience, with a particular concern for finding a coherent way to make reconciling musics that were sealed off from one another. How to make embarrassingly simple and charming music work with the most complex musical modalities? Tipping in this direction has made me aware of the dangers of grasping too firmly onto any one notion.
I've come to Macherey's vision that our shadow (what we're *not*) is radiantly present in our work. So it's perfectly reasonable to *love everything*. We're imbricated. --
**The true necessity of the text manifests itself in the fact that not a word of it can be changed and nothing can be added, even though it appears at each moment as though a new topic could be chosen, an alternative narrative selected. But it is precisely this ceaseless shadowy presence of other possible phrases which could be pronounced, this ineradicable sense that things could have been other than they are, which enforces the constraining necessity of the text we actually have before us.**--Macherey