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• In grade school I was smart, but I didn’t have any friends. In high school, I quit being smart and started having friends.

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• The basic notion was the idea that the loudspeaker should have a voice which was unique and not just an instrument of reproduction, but an instrument unto itself.

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• Performing is very much like cooking: putting it all together, raising the temperature.

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• Most electronic equipment uses the principle of amplification. You need filters, modulators and mixing equipment which have gain stages. By piling these components up, I was able to work without any sound generators and I made several pieces in that manner.

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• Loudspeakers should be made to be destroyed and… disposable.

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• If you put yourself in a situation of unpredictability and then find that it’s completely possible to accept it, then you become an observer.

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• I’ve never been able to arouse any interest in myself for digitally produced sound, and so the computer turns me off.

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• I’ve always felt that there’s a point where a piece seems to be alive, that is, living. And that’s the point where I know the composition is finished.

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• I persist in performing.

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• I am perfectly willing for my music to exist with somebody else’s taste.

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David Tudor (10)

Birth:	20th January, 1926
Death:	13th August, 1996
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Composer, Pianist

About

David Eugene Tudor was an American pianist and composer of experimental music. Tudor was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He studied piano with Irma Wolpe and composition with Stefan Wolpe and became known as one of the leading performers of avant garde piano music.

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