Wąsik / Szymański / Mykietyn / Adams / Does Music Like to Repeat Itself?

‘A contemporary composer moves between gibberish and banality. There is no middle ground, nor can there be’, observed Paweł Szymański in 1997. At the time, his remark was interpreted in the context of the 20th-century tension between the demiurgic avant-garde and the postmodern – at times unreflective – reuse of the tried-and-tested solutions of the past.