In music, as in the living world, change is permanent, stasis is transitory. ‘What is perceived’, writes Thomas Fuchs, ‘is not a sequence of discrete tones but a dynamic, self-organising process which integrates the tones heard to create a melody’. Self-organising, note: it is an ‘automatic synthesis, not one actively performed by the subject’.88 In other words we have to escape the effortful sense of constructing something if we are to allow a flow simply to be.
