Classisists are constantly worried about disintegration of form.
Schnittke’s music is the perfect example of the horror they fear. A familiar form (in this case, a toccata) destroyed by a modernist jerk intent on making music implode by taking something familiar and filling it with so many extra notes and obtuse rhythms that it becomes a quagmire of noise, which will inevitably descend into chaotic horror.
There’s on problem with their premise… the laws of physics will never allow any musician to ruin music.
Enter newly discovered Cymatics!
Sound has mandalas and complex geometry hidden in every frequency. There is no combination of frequencies that won’t yield these far out shapes. It’s unavoidble, and classisists can find organizing principles in the most obtuse noise if they only look. The universe doesn’t care about history, form or harmony.
Hidden mystic symbols are at the heart of every frequency and any combination will yield new and beautiful shapes that are further proof of an organized universe that cannot be unorganized by even the most earnest attempts.
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