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Mirrors of Destruction

All Western thought is based on the idea of a center - an Origin,
a Truth, an Ideal Form, an Essence, a God, a Presence that guarantees
meaning. The problem with centres is that they attempt to exclude,
ignore, repress, marginalize 'the other'.
There is no original text, no center. A text is made from other
texts. Any element-sign or sub-text, by being placed into a 'new'
text, adopts meanings that are different from its primary
meanings or meanings in other texts. A text is not a line of words
releasing a single'theological' meaning (the message of the Author-God),
but amulti-dimensional space in which a variety of writings,
none of them original, blend and clash. The text is a tissue of
quotations drawn from the innumerable centers of culture.
A musical text is not an autonomous object.
Explicitly more than in written texts, it is grounded in
musical practice that a score only receives meaning through
an active reading (which can be both kept in silence or
realized in sound) and that a definitive version is an illusion.

Our practice is: Making music on one's own without having a preconceived
goal, without holding on to already existing codes and rules.