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Hoi mensen,
Ik kwam dit citaat tegen van de componist Arnold Schönberg (1874-1951) op een Facebook forum. Klinkt vandaag de dag helemaal niet zo onwaarschijnlijk als toen hij dit formuleerde
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Today, July 13 is the 66th anniversary of Arnold Schoenberg's death. I know how I feel, but I'm curious if this prognostication from 1949 resonates with the way in which members of this group are making music today.
"Therefore, I believe that the instrument of the future will be constructed as follows: there will not be 60 or 70 different colours, but only a very small number (perhaps 2 to 6 would certainly be enough for me) which would have to include the entire range (7-8 octaves) and a range of expression from the softest pianissimo to the greatest fortissimo, each for itself alone.
The instrument of the future must not be more than, say 1 1/2 times as large as a portable typewriter. For one should not strike too many wrong keys on a typewriter either. Why should it not be possible for a musician, also, to type so accurately that no mistakes occur?
I can imagine that, with such a portable instrument, musicians and music-lovers will get together in an evening in someone’s home and play duos, trios and quartets; they will really be in a position to reproduce the idea-content of all symphonies. This is, naturally, a fantasy of the future, but who knows if we are so far away from it now? If tones can be transmitted quite freely into one’s home (much as the radio transmits tone now) all that will probably be possible."
Arnold Schoenberg
May 10, 1949
Ik kwam dit citaat tegen van de componist Arnold Schönberg (1874-1951) op een Facebook forum. Klinkt vandaag de dag helemaal niet zo onwaarschijnlijk als toen hij dit formuleerde
:Today, July 13 is the 66th anniversary of Arnold Schoenberg's death. I know how I feel, but I'm curious if this prognostication from 1949 resonates with the way in which members of this group are making music today.
"Therefore, I believe that the instrument of the future will be constructed as follows: there will not be 60 or 70 different colours, but only a very small number (perhaps 2 to 6 would certainly be enough for me) which would have to include the entire range (7-8 octaves) and a range of expression from the softest pianissimo to the greatest fortissimo, each for itself alone.
The instrument of the future must not be more than, say 1 1/2 times as large as a portable typewriter. For one should not strike too many wrong keys on a typewriter either. Why should it not be possible for a musician, also, to type so accurately that no mistakes occur?
I can imagine that, with such a portable instrument, musicians and music-lovers will get together in an evening in someone’s home and play duos, trios and quartets; they will really be in a position to reproduce the idea-content of all symphonies. This is, naturally, a fantasy of the future, but who knows if we are so far away from it now? If tones can be transmitted quite freely into one’s home (much as the radio transmits tone now) all that will probably be possible."
Arnold Schoenberg
May 10, 1949
