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Notes

The

thoughts behind Scribendo Cogito for

saxophone

quartet

come

from

those

of

Ludwig

Wittgenstein's

in

Philosophical Investigations. Upon read

Wittgenstein's work, realized the problems Wittgenstein

had

encountered with language is ever more profound

in

music, and his suggestion of co

language as play , in fact, a sine qua non in all musical activities. Thus,

sought to re-examine how a musical reahty

is

constructed, how a message

other nature(s) is translated

into

sounds, or actually,

a

representative play of sounds. At the end, do not attempt to provide any solution to those pr

real

and imaginative.

On

the

contrary,

might add

some

problems of

my

own creation.

In

a

nutshell, this is music for and by itself.

L ip smacking, popping sounds

X

Key clicks

Air

Sound

Transition from one sonority to another

Bisbigliando, microtonal and/or color trill on a single

note

Tr i l l on the circled key

fingering will generate more upper harmonics when volume is increased.

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People

say again and again

that

philosophy doesn't really progress,

that

we are

still

occupied with the

same

philosophical problems as were the Greek. But the people

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say this don't understand why it

Jms

to be so. It is because our language has remained the

same

and keeps seducing us into asking the

same

questions. As long as there continues to be

a

verb 'to be'

that

looks as

if

it functions the

same

way as 'to eat' and 'to drink \ long

as we have the adjectives 'indentical', 'true'false \ \ long as we continue to

talk

o f a river of time, of

an expanse

of space,

etc, etc., people

will

keep stumbling over the

same

puzzling difficulties and find themselves staring at something which no explanation seems

capable

o f clearing

up.

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what's more, this satisfies a

longing

for

the transcendent, because in

so far

as people think

they

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of human

understanding ,

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of

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