Music Lessons.

Composer, conductor, and writer Pierre Boulez proposed that much music recorded throughout the 20th Century, could be characterized as having a narrative of inexorably breaking boundaries and parameters. Such rule-breaking included the blurred distinction of music with its environment, where and how a piece of music began or ended, or perceptions of creative (co-)authorship – who, where, and how audiences could continue or extend a work themselves.

If we understand music to be an agile, or unfixed discipline, where a composition might be ‘misplaced,’ ‘adrift,’ or even ‘absent’ in parts, can we also entertain analogous concepts of ‘lost,’ ‘off-course,’ or ‘unfinished’ fashion, which also looks to soundly reject absolutes and conventional confines of physical form and presence?