Infinite Music - Adam Harper
Adam Harper - Infinite Music - Zero Books
Adam Harper finally sees his first book published this month. A very important text for composers today and in the future, and for disillusioned listeners who may feel the need to re-engage with the massive significance of music and music creation in our times.
Personally, I think there has been too much dumbing-down or over simplification of the meaning of music making by a monstrous music industry, driven by commercial motives. There has been too much emphasis on the aesthetic concerns of art, thereby missing the big point, of how the unhindered exploration of music space, as Adam calls it, is paramount for the continuing enhancement of many aspects of the human ability to imagine, conceive and embody ideas.
As Xenakis put it;
“For me it is always important to go to the limits, to push them, as it were, and to explore these domains which, in a sense, are beyond the aesthetical concerns of art.” Xenakis, Determinancy and Indeterminancy, Organised Sound 1996
I believe too that music creation must never become enslaved again by dancefloors, music charts or the corporate mob. Things are much better now than they were 15 years ago - lets keep it that way!
Adam’s book describes the spirit of an open-ended system of continuous, multidimensional musical complexity, based on intuition and technology, culture and community.
An extended reminder of music and modernity’s capacity to make imagination, human intensity and compassion more abundant through a unique form of sensory information, “infinite music”.
