NYC: it is really raining: Found Elliot Carter 2003 interview. I was thinking about space and sound and moving in space and time. "I feel that every note has to speak in some way," he says. "It has

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NYC: it is really raining:Found Elliot Carter 2003 interview. I was thinking about space and sound and moving in space and time."I feel that every note has to speak in some way," he says. "It has to have some reason for being there, in a way that means something to me." Does emotion come into it? "The emotional quality of a piece of music is not something I think about. I'm assuming it must have an emotional quality, otherwise I wouldn't like it."It's not that I sit down and say, 'I'm going to write a piece about joy, sadness or whatever.' I write down what happens to be the mood, I suppose, but it's not that that I'm concerned with. I'm concerned with the notes, how they sound to me. I always start with thinking about how I'd like to hear the instruments sound and what character they could have."