PETER
HÜBNER
LUCAS PASSION
Great
Soloists
Great Philharmonic Orchestra
Great Percussion Orchestra
Elektronic
Instruments, Organ
label: Dissonance in Excellence
total playing time: 67’14”
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JOURNALIST: So
in future there will be instructions on CDs, as to whether this music is beneficial
to health, safe in terms of your health or harmful to your health?
PETER HÜBNER: For me this is only
a question of time, and the extent of democratic development in society.
The higher developed societies will lead the way in this respect, and the
others will follow them. No society wants to be destroyed.
And the core way of averting such a thing is without doubt to support health
as well as to avoid social damage – that is to support methods of healing
which are objective and scientifically verifiable and to avoid influences
which damage people’s health – as we already know it nowadays from
the fight against the cocaine trade and similar things.
Your original question was previously: why I show so much tolerance towards
disharmonious music, although I have devoted myself to harmonious music. The
answer is that I am able to afford this attitude, because the problems of
harmonious and disharmonious music – as I have explained – are not
so much a question relating to music or art, but primarily to medicine. And
so these problems are first and foremost the responsibility of medical experts
and legislation, and they can and will only be solved there. As a musicologist,
music creator or artist I don’t need to have a strong opinion at all.
But at the same time I don’t see this as a question of the producers
of dissonant music who are not the people responsible in kindergardens, in
schools and in the media either.
They offer the disharmonious music products of which they are convinced exactly
in the same way as I offer the harmonical music products of which I am convinced,
and from a musicological and artistic point of view, we can face each other
with musical respect.
And if their artistic products are
brazenly removed from lessons for health reasons, and mine are introduced
into kindergardens and schools for the same reason, I would not want to imagine
that I was a better artist, a better composer or a better businessman, I would
only see the reason for this in the fact that, unfortunately, there are so
many people prone to illness in the present times, so many children and juveniles
with health and behavioural disorders – a fact which must, of course,
be taken into special account by society.
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