JOURNALIST:
“What is disharmonical music?”
PETER HÜBNER: Disharmonical music is music which in its elements
but also as a whole is perceived by the plain healthy human being as acoustic
to his ear, brain, organism and ultimately also from an holistic point of
view as physically and spontaneously unpleasant.
And as already said earlier, this phenomenon of unpleasant feeling is based
on the fact that the biological systems and therefore also the human being
himself are harmonically structured, the biological processes run harmonically
and these organ structures automatically reject everything that does not correspond
to its natural harmonical framework.
One can educate oneself and/or be educated to be seemingly insensitive or
tough – as we also know it from swimmers who, in the winter when there
is snow, swim in rivers or from smokers, alcoholics and drug consumers.
But just as the organism normally and naturally, spontaneously rejects the
bitter cold and accordingly nicotine, alcohol and drugs, it rejects the structure
of disharmony which is foreign to its nature..
JOURNALIST: You talked about dissonance and disharmony ...
PETER HÜBNER: It is very important, to differentiate between dissonance
and disharmony. Dissonance is correctly described as the rejection of the
natural volume conditions of overtones, and disharmony is sensibly described
as the disregard of the harmonical, of the naturally harmonious from the side
of the modern avant-garde music creators, as well as the modern interpreters
of classical music.
With the avant-garde group, the disregard mainly stands out tonally, and the
simple listener spontaneously perceives their music, as out of tune. And with
the modern interpreters of classical music the disregard of the harmonical
mainly stands out rhythmically. However, both more or less applies for the
whole industry of light music – from so-called folk-music to rock and
pop music.
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