精讀②:時間軸方法與音樂語彙的同構
Mark Fell, Works in Sound and Pattern Synthesis (PhD thesis, University of Surrey, 2013)
"Since my initial encounters with this method of making musical structures (around 1987) I have been acutely aware of the difficulties I found in it. [...] Therefore, from my early encounters with the time-line method I felt there was an isomorphic relation between the methods used in the construction of music, and the vocabulary present in musical styles that heavily employed those methods."
PSW 譯:「早在我 1987 年前後第一次接觸這套音樂建構方法開始,我就敏銳地意識到其中的困難。[……]從早期接觸這套時間軸(time-line)方法起,我就感覺到,音樂建構所使用的方法,與大量使用這些方法的音樂風格裡所呈現出的語彙之間,存在一種同構(isomorphic)關係。」(p.96)
這正是框架②「反流暢」的原始出處:時間軸這個工具本身,已經內建了一種特定的音樂語彙與美學立場,不是中立容器。