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                                             August 2, 2007


    Jonathan Harvey, p.21 of the
    _The Wire_ 282, August 2007:

        "The fundamental thing is that you have one object --
        a spectrum which is very complex.  I love the
        way in which one can split that up into many
        objects, and back again into one object."
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     In answer to the question "What defines an object?":

        "The fact that the ear automatically takes it in
        as one object.  There are many borderline cases
        when the ear is not certain if it is one object
        of many objects, and it moves from one state to
        another."


        "When I double a melodic line at the
        harmonic series, the listener quite
        often becomes aware of the doubling as a
        separate part, but then forgets that
        it's a separate part."


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