Music: A Composer who writes notes on the five-lines system,  which are then played by Interpreters, and are received by Listeners—actually not even the most self-evident way of making  music.

Music: The fundamentals of traditional European composing.  The basis. Writing notes. Almost no other intention, at least no  stylistic intention, no minimalism, no maximalism, no style, no  denial, nothing of specific interest. Music: The desire to do something very simple. No ambition.  No specific idea, Chinese/Japanese maybe: To listen to nature (to  rain) and to set a note on paper. To use the system (Composer,  five lines, Interpreter, …). A kind of nothing, the small nothing— as opposed to the “large” one (the denial, the silence, anti-art,  the pause, black-film, …)

Peter Ablinger

(English translation edited by Gabriel Santander)