The Past Nine Years In San Diego

Composers Dialogue - And Obsessively, Bitterly Argue - With Other Composers, Often Over The Span Of Several Centuries.

As A Necessary Prerequisite To The Creation Of New Forms Of Expression One Might, I Suppose, Argue That Current Sensibilities Respond Uniquely To The Notion Of Exhaustion As Exhaustion, Although That Does De Facto Seem Rather Limiting.

There Would Seem To Be A Limit, Even For An Art Preoccupied With Boundaries And Transgressions, Beyond Which A Work Reaches Its Breaking Point And Becomes An Actual Failure, A Mere Experimentation.

Naturally Enough, I Couldn't Have Foreseen The Vast Sea Change Which Has Come Upon That Scene As A Result Of German Reunification And Associated Events.

The Past Nine Years In San Diego Have Represented Such A Period Of Questioning.