A Stubborn Search for Artistic Unity
Tod Machover · Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks · 1986
My consistent and overriding artistic goal, ever since the earliest compositions of my student days, has been to create m usical forms that suggest the search for psychological and spiritual unity beyond seemingly impenetrable veils of confusion and juxtaposition. That such unity exists — must exist — is one of my deepest convictions. That modern society presents an unprecedented network of complex parallel worlds, apparently so completely disconnected from each other, only amplifies my feeling that the search for deeper truths lies at the heart of our attempt to keep inter-personal and inter-cultural communication from breaking down and disappearing entirely. Because of its very neutrality and flexibility, computer music technology has long suggested itself to me as the ideal medium in which, paradoxically, the differentiation of musical materials can be intensified while ever-deeper layers of sonic coherence are established.