#10 Edgard Varése

I thought that it was interesting how Varése used his science background to create a new style of music. Modernist music is based upon new innovations, and the use of audio technology in music was a clever way to create a modern way to represent music. His description of trivium and quadrivium was an intellectual way to connect art and science in the middle ages to the ways Varése's music was being produced. Modernist music was extremely prevalent during the 2oth century because of the technological advances such as audio delays and distortion. I agree with his view that the increase in electronics is a "additive, not a destructive"(74). He furthers descibes how this innovation has been good because it has created a new medium for music.